That Christian Troops are encouraged to fully exercise their First Amendment Freedoms during on Off duy Hours to include the distribution of Bibles to the indigenous population as well as conducting Christian Outreach and Bible study programs.
Oh you cannot? Oh because they have been denied their First Amendment Rights to practice their faith during their Off Duty Hours.. to spend their own money to provide Bible to Afgani people.. Oh so distroying Korans is a great offense and not protected speach under the First Amendment.. But Crapping on the American Flag and the US Government confiscating and distroying Bible isn't
JAGs.. they play the darn’dest games don't they?
US Afghan Bibles ‘confiscated’
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/200954191137422638.html
“Central Command General Order No. 1 specifically forbids “proselytizing of any faith, religion or practice.” The footage came from documentary filmmaker Brian Hughes”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/05/bibles-destroye.html
The U.S. military is confirming that it has destroyed some Bibles belonging to an American soldier serving in Afghanistan.
Reuters News says the Bibles were confiscated and destroyed after Qatar-based Al Jazeer television showed soldiers at a Bible class on a base with a stack of Bibles translated into the local Pashto and Dari languages. The U.S. military forbids its members on active duty — including those based in places like Afghanistan — from trying to convert people to another religion.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Security/Default.aspx?id=516980
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Being stationed in the islamic world on a military mission is not simply a day job. The members of the armed forces stationed there have no right to do things off-duty that could could jeopardize the safety of the mission. Handing out bibles to people in a radically islamic country could provoke hostililty, especially since the US gov’t is repeatedly saying that the troops in Af. are not there on some religious crusade.
If handing out bibles was that important to the soldiers in question, they should’ve become missionaries instead in enlisting.