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Tuesday, November 28, 2017


BAD BLUNDERS AT BAGRAM!

AIRFIELD's HORRENDOUS CHRISTIAN PROSELYTIZING PROBLEM SEEDS
VIOLENCE OVERSEAS


MRFF SENIOR RESEARCH DIRECTOR EXPOSES BAGRAM'S
UNCONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY

NEW OP-ED FEATURED ON HUFFPOST WORLD NEWS

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How Many More Religiously Insensitive 'Mistakes' is Our Military Going to Make
at Bagram Airfield?

Monday, November 27, 2017

Just over two months ago, a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up at an entrance to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, killing an Afghan interpreter and wounding three U.S. soldiers and three Afghan troops. The reason for the attack? The U.S. military had dropped leaflets in the area that were highly offensive to Muslims,

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And it was also just a "mistake" in 2012 when U.S. troops at Bagram burned an unknown number of Korans and were preparing to burn hundreds more, an incident that led to days of deadly nationwide protests and riots across Afghanistan.

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And before that it was U.S. troops at Bagram caught on film by Al Jazeera English preparing to distribute Bibles in the Dari and Pashtu languages in an effort to convert local Afghans, a blatant violation of CENTCOM General Order Number 1, which strictly prohibits any religious proselytizing in the CENTCOM Area of Responsibility (AOR), which includes both Afghanistan and Iraq. 

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Just last week, we received an email from a retired military officer, now at Bagram as a civilian DoD employee, which read:

"As a retired military officer (30+ years) and current Department of the Army civilian serving in Afghanistan - I can say this B.S. never ends.

Attached to the email were the lunch and dinner menus posted at Bagram's five dining facilities on November 22 — menus on which were printed both a Bible verse and the message "Thank You Lord!"

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Click to read more on HuffPost

Click to read Thank You Email
from MRFF Client at Bagram


CHRIS RODDA's NEW OP-ED ALSO RECOMMENDED
ON DAILY KOS

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Click to read on Daily Kos


MILITARY TIMES & ARMY TIMES COVERS MRFF

Fort Gordon takes action to prevent mandatory attendance at religious events

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Date: November 23, 2017
By: Kent Miller

Leaders at Fort Gordon, Georgia, have determined that soldier attendance at a Christian "spiritual fitness barbecue" Oct. 14 was voluntary, but that they "understand why some students concluded the event was mandatory."

Army trainees at the installation contacted the Military Religious Freedom Foundation to say they were marched from their barracks to a base chapel for a mandatory Christian proselytizing event. Mikey Weinstein, the president and founder of the foundation, then lodged a complaint with Maj. Gen. John Morrison Jr., commanding general of Fort Gordon and the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence.
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Click to read in Army Times & Military Times

Click for background on Fort Gordon's Mandatory Christian Event
"Spiritual Fitness Barbeque"
Thrust Upon Soldiers


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