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		<title>Embedded Missionaries in Afghanistan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has uncovered video footage of U.S. Christian missionaries &#8220;embedded&#8221; with U.S. Army forces in Afghanistan proselytizing and handing out copies of the New Testament written in Darri to Afghani citizens.  They were assisted and aided by a public affairs unit, allowed to stay on U.S. bases and accompanied U.S. soldiers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/">Military Religious Freedom Foundation</a> has uncovered <a href="http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/weekly-watch/12-12-08/travel_the_road.html">video footage of U.S. Christian missionaries &#8220;embedded&#8221; with U.S. Army forces</a> in Afghanistan proselytizing and handing out copies of the New Testament written in Darri to Afghani citizens.  They were assisted and aided by a public affairs unit, allowed to stay on U.S. bases and accompanied U.S. soldiers on patrols and film them; all done to promote Christianity and produce a television show called &#8220;Travel The Road&#8221;.</p>
<blockquote><p>The number of DoD Public Affairs regulations violated in the military&#8217;s participation and assistance in producing a religious program alone is staggering, not to mention other violations (including constitutional) documented in the content of the program, which include the outrageous violation of the United States Central Command&#8217;s General Order 1-A, which absolutely prohibits any proselytization whatsoever in the Middle Eastern theater of operations. In complete disregard of this bedrock standing order, the U.S. Army facilitated these evangelizing Christian missionaries in their distribution of New Testaments in the Arabic native language (&#8220;Darri&#8221; dialect) to the Afghani people.</p></blockquote>
<p>Youtube video is available <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ouKdsT6AY">here</a>.  I saw this first at Ed Brayton&#8217;s <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/12/mrffs_latest_discovery.php">Dispatches From The Culture Wars</a> and more in-depth coverage is available at <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-rodda/us-military-now-in-the-ch_b_150966.html">Huffington Post</a>.  I dropped a note about this to the Obama Transition Team at <a href="http://change.gov/page/s/yourstory">Change.gov</a>.</p>
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