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U.S. soldiers encouraged to spread message of their Christian faith in Afghanistan

Re: U.S. soldiers encouraged to spread message of their Christian faith in Afghanista

Laila said:
Done.
I'm off for a fag
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LOL I'm gonna have a fag too then a drink after going to the library.
 
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Goobieman said:
Many Muslims disagree -- especially those Muslims that fly airplanes into buildings and blow themselves up among busses full of schoolkids.
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Ah come on Goobieman, you can do better than that. I dont think its fair to say that. Statistically, when compared to the entire muslim population on this planet, only a fraction are extremists. The problem? They have very loud voices, and so we can be very mislead, especially here in the west, that they are all crazy plane driving pot heads. Now, i honestly dont mean to offend anyone especially my somalilandian homie laila, but i dispise most religions, paticularly Islam (look at my race, im no hypocrit), and am a huge supporter of secularism, paticularly Ataturks vision in Turkey. That is my view.

DamnYankee said:
Cool. You'll find in life not everyone thinks like you. It's called maturity.
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In otherwords, some people are more mentally retarted (Conservatives) then others (Democrats/Republicans). Fair do. Fair do.

Laila said:
Done.
I'm off for a fag
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Mind if i join?
 
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winston53660 said:
LOL I'm gonna have a fag too then a drink after going to the library.
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I'm gonna have a fag, too, but I'm gonna buy him a drink first. :mrgreen:
 
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Laila said:
What a wonderful argument.
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Hey, dont blame me for YOUR false claim.

The only question is if you made that claim knowing that is was false.

I did give you the benefit of the doubt, but your backpedalling leands me to believe that you DO know that your claim that "no Muslim actively seeks to convert others" is false.

So, you lied. Admit it and get over it.
 
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I'm going to try and squash this right now. It's a complete non-issue. No one is trying to convert anyone. The idea is absolutely laughable. Chaplains are irrelevant for the most part. They show up every two months or so, talk nonsense for about ten minutes, and go back to the big base with the air conditioning and chow halls. Troops are too tired and hungry to give a damn what they say. It's nothing, nada, zilch. Move on with your day.
 
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jallman said:
I'm gonna have a fag, too, but I'm gonna buy him a drink first. :mrgreen:
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Typical American. :)
 
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Ethereal said:
This is nothing to be concerned over. Hardly anyone gives a **** what the Chaplain says. They come in, make everyone wake up, stop eating, stop reading, stop playing their PSP so we can all get together and listen to them run their mouths for about ten minutes. Most of the troops are just looking at their watches, waiting for him to shut up, so they can go back to doing whatever it was they were doing before this jerk interrupted their free time. Honestly, this is nothing to be worried about. Troops don't care about converting anyone. They care about the following things:

1. Avoiding death.
2. Avoiding injury.
3. Sleeping and eating.
4. The occasional port-a-potty fantasy.

That's it, nothing more to it. Perhaps there are a few morons who think it's alright to go around trying to convert people but they'd never actually be allowed to do it. Their squad-leader, or team-leader, or platoon commander would just tell them to stfu and watch their sector. Seriously, I’m laughing right now just thinking about someone in my team trying to convert an Iraqi during a combat patrol. I would have punched the **** out of them.
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A port-a-potty fantasy??? :doh
 
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jallman said:
Get back to me when you have established yourself, sparky.
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Hey kid. Look at post #51 the first time you addressed me. Then practice what you preach.
 
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DamnYankee said:
If the Afghanis did not want to hear the message, then why do they listen? After all, it is just a harmless little book they handed out. :lol:
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I don't care if they listen or don't. It's illegal to do, both through the State they are in and through the rules of the military. It's not the military's place to spread a particular religion, they are forbidden to do so. Handing out bibles is in violation of this. End of story.

If you think your message is so great and will be well received, send missionaries. Let's see what happens to your crusade once it's not backed by the guns and might of the US Army. Though it's still probably illegal by Afghanistan law.
 
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Ah come on Goobieman, you can do better than that. I dont think its fair to say that. Statistically, when compared to the entire muslim population on this planet, only a fraction are extremists.
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But, you DO agree that the extremists are likely to seek the conversion of other to Islam, yes?
The then discussion boils down to the definition of "many".
If 5% of the Mislum population are extrmists, that's 50 million people.
 
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kaya'08 said:
In otherwords, some people are more mentally retarted (Conservatives) then others (Democrats/Republicans). Fair do. Fair do.
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Apparently so. Can you spell dictionary?
 
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Muslims can grow up and just say no.

As far as having bibles, even in the local language, and being willing to share em, that is the Christian's right, and we should RUB IT IN THEIR MUSLIM FACES. Muslims can learn to tolerate other religions very fast, if it is in their face and on pain of death. Muslims can learn that they can just say no thanks to a bible, and move on. Any violence against Americans, for acting like Christians if they are, or acting like an Atheist or Jew or what the hell ever, should be met with the thunder of American guns. Why *****foot around with Muslims on the religious issue ? Why not tell them American Soldiers are going to act upon their religious freedom , any old time they want, and if Muslims can't live and let live, then they can die in the struggle about it. America does think religious freedom is worth fighting for, killing for, so why not be blunt to the Muslims and explain to them, that they can learn some tolerance, or be killed for acting out over religious choices of others. No More Accomodation. Demand indifference to the religion of our soldiers, and punish anything else.
 
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talloulou said:
A port-a-potty fantasy??? :doh
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There's really only two things you can do in a porty-a-potty, and one of them is going to the bathroom. Let your imagination run wild...:cool:
 
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Ethereal said:
There's really only two things you can do in a porty-a-potty, and one of them is going to the bathroom. Let your imagination run wild...:cool:
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That's really gross. Maybe you need a chaplain for your deviant ways. :mrgreen:
 
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kaya'08 said:
Now, i honestly dont mean to offend anyone especially my somalilandian homie laila, but i dispise most religions, paticularly Islam (look at my race, im no hypocrit), and am a huge supporter of secularism, paticularly Ataturks vision in Turkey. That is my view.

Mind if i join?
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Please do, i have a pack or two to finish.
It does wonders to calm you down =D

No problemo Kaya.
I look on Turkey as a model for Somaliland.
Right now the consitution needs a little changing, i'd rather secularism was written in to prevent any Islamists getting control
 
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Laila said:
Done.
I'm off for a fag
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This is why the British shouldn't be trusted with the English language.
:2razz:
 
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Hmm...ok...they strap on explosives and blow up school busses full of children, behead prisoners and stone rape victims......we offer free bibles.....wow we're really extreme.
 
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winston53660 said:
LOL I'm gonna have a fag too then a drink after going to the library.
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LOL =D
I can't smoke in the library anymore, bloody laws stop me and i have to stand outside in the rain :(
 
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Voidwar said:
Muslims can grow up and just say no.

As far as having bibles, even in the local language, and being willing to share em, that is the Christian's right, and we should RUB IT IN THEIR MUSLIM FACES. Muslims can learn to tolerate other religions very fast, if it is in their face and on pain of death. Muslims can learn that they can just say no thanks to a bible, and move on. Any violence against Americans, for acting like Christians if they are, or acting like an Atheist or Jew or what the hell ever, should be met with the thunder of American guns. Why *****foot around with Muslims on the religious issue ? Why not tell them American Soldiers are going to act upon their religious freedom , any old time they want, and if Muslims can't live and let live, then they can die in the struggle about it. America does think religious freedom is worth fighting for, killing for, so why not be blunt to the Muslims and explain to them, that they can learn some tolerance, or be killed for acting out over religious choices of others. No More Accomodation. Demand indifference to the religion of our soldiers, and punish anything else.
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There's a difference between soldiers freely practicing their religion and members of our military aiming to convert locals in foreign lands. As far as the bolded above I can't believe anyone would believe in beating the faith into someone. That's insanity.
 
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Ikari said:
This is why the British shouldn't be trusted with the English language.
:2razz:
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:rofl

The english language was ours before you Yanks got a hold of it and screwed it up :p
 
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Voidwar said:
Muslims can grow up and just say no.

As far as having bibles, even in the local language, and being willing to share em, that is the Christian's right, and we should RUB IT IN THEIR MUSLIM FACES.
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It can not be facilitated through the US military. I don't care which god tells you it's your right, when part of the US military you are subject to its rules, regulations, and code of conduct.
 
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Jerry said:
Hmm...ok...they strap on explosives and blow up school busses full of children, behead prisoners and stone rape victims......we offer free bibles.....wow we're really extreme.
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Completely ridiculous and not the point.

I can't run up to a public school building right now and attempt to convert the wee ones to Christians and then get outraged and claim there are rapists as my defense on why a little public school conversion is benign.
 
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Laila said:
:rofl

The english language was ours before you Yanks got a hold of it and screwed it up :p
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No no no, we got a hold of it at perfected it
;)
 
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talloulou said:
That's really gross.
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Tell me about it. You've never seen a nasty port-a-potty until you've been in the military. But you have to make due with what you got.

Maybe you need a chaplain for your deviant ways. :mrgreen:
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As soon as the Chaplain was done giving us his spiel he went straight to the port-a-potty. He knew the score.
 
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Jerry said:
Hmm...ok...they strap on explosives and blow up school busses full of children, behead prisoners and stone rape victims......we offer free bibles.....wow we're really extreme.
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Don't offer free bibles if you are a soldier and is occupying that country.

I can just imagine the message and image.
A soldier with a bible in one hand preaching love and a gun in the other.
 
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