There’s something terribly wrong when an American soldier overseas can’t receive Scriptures in the mail, but a Muslim chaplain can preach freely among al Qaeda and Taliban enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay.
This is a story of two soldiers, one Christian, one Muslim. It’s a cautionary tale that suggests how religious double standards and politically-driven hypersensitivity threaten not only our troops, but us all.
Five months ago, Jack Moody tried to send his son, Daniel, a CARE package containing a Bible study and other Christian religious materials. Daniel is a 21-year-old Army National Guardsman serving in the Middle East. He had written home requesting spiritual support while he risked his life abroad. The literature his dad packed included Christian comic books.
But when Daniel’s dad approached the post office in the family’s hometown of Lenoir, North Carolina, he was told he would not be allowed to send the items.
According to U.S.P.S. postal bulletin PB22097, section E2, Moody was forbidden from sending "any matter containing religious materials contrary to the Islamic faith or depicting seminude persons, pornographic or sexual items, or non-authorized political materials."
The postal clerk informed Moody that the Christian contents of the package might be considered offensive to some Muslims overseas. The policy was initiated during the first Gulf War.
“My son is in the military, and he's overseas fighting to free this country from tyranny, and to protect our rights and our freedoms, and here our government has a rule on the books that's limited his freedom. I just couldn't believe it,” Moody told the Voice of America news service.
Even more unbelievable was the apathetic reaction of Moody’s elected representatives. According to John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute, a staunch defender of religious liberty, Sen. Elizabeth Dole’s staff brushed Moody off. So did Dan Gurley, GOP Congressman Cass Ballenger’s chief of staff. According to Moody, Ballenger refused to get involved, insisting that the matter should be left to the courts.
And there’s where Moody’s case—which is included in the devastating new book Persecution, best-selling author David Limbaugh’s searing indictment of anti-Christian intolerance—remains today. The Rutherford Institute filed suit against the U.S. Postmaster General in defense of Moody’s rights to freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, and equal protection under the law. The group’s motion for summary judgment is pending.
Whitehead explains:
“The First Amendment prohibits our government from establishing a religion by favoring one over another. By stating that no material can be mailed if it is contrary to the Islamic religion, the U.S. Post Office has clearly shown deference to Islam above all other religions—and this definitely violates our Constitution.”
Contrast Daniel Moody’s treatment with that of Capt. James Yee. The Muslim convert, who studied in terror-sponsoring Syria and attended an Islamic cultural center run by the terror-friendly Saudi government, was given free rein by the U.S. Army to administer to the souls of al Qaeda and Taliban enemies at Guantanamo Bay.
Yee brought the detainees prayer beads and religious books, facilitated prayer services, and assisted them with Muslim food preparation. And he received lavish, fawning profiles in the “diversity-” and “tolerance-” obsessed mainstream press.
Now he has been charged with sedition, aiding the enemy, spying, espionage and failure to obey a general order. Treason charges may be added. Yee exploited our bent-over-backwards solicitude towards Muslims in the military by allegedly using his access to smuggle out diagrams of the detainees’ cells and lists of the names of the detainees and their interrogators.
More than half of the armed forces’ Muslim chaplains were trained by a terror-linked, Saudi-subsidized institute while military leaders blindly sung the praises of multiculturalism.
Islamist Fifth Columnists are benefiting from the very guarantees of religious freedom being denied to devout Christian soldiers such as Daniel Moody who are risking their lives for the War on Terror overseas.
This dangerous deference to radical Islam—rooted in a cowardly fear of offending—is not only a threat to our soldiers’ constitutionally protected rights, but to our national security.
My, my, my. The poster boy for Isalmic tolerance. Of course, let the Brits raise the issue of a chador in court or the French the hijab in a public school and the fit really hits the Shan.
Could someone explain to me again the benevolent garden spot of Quran-inspired tolerance and empathy that Christians and Jews are to expect when living in an Islamic state? Or perhaps one of the elders could explain it to some of the younger Muslim members of the forum. There seems to be a generational roadblock of some sort.
im not the poster boy for tolerance, im 100% opposite and i admit it, no need for me to be diplomatic its best to be honest and express how i truly feel.
and i dont live in the west, i inhabit the muslim world so u can do whatever u like to muslims in the west it just further backs my opinion and why people should think like me and implement saudi style rules on other faiths!
Right :confused: Each and every service man enlisted so he could turn an entire country into a living hell.
All Americans are so Evil. :confused: :confused:
I didn't say all americans, and I didn't say all enlisted soldiers, but all the soldiers who got sent there and chose to follow orders contributed yes. what do you think they've been doing there getting a tan and playing sports?
I didn't say all americans, and I didn't say all enlisted soldiers, but all the soldiers who got sent there and chose to follow orders contributed yes. what do you think they've been doing there getting a tan and playing sports?
In case you haven't noticed, American troops are hardly the greatest threat to Iraqis right now. Yes, the invasion laid the groundwork for this hell called Iraq, but it isn't U.S. troops butchering Iraqis, which I think you know very well.
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."
I didn't say all americans, and I didn't say all enlisted soldiers, but all the soldiers who got sent there and chose to follow orders contributed yes. what do you think they've been doing there getting a tan and playing sports?
And every service man is entitled to make his own decision when the general says "Charge". Right ya, do. Obviously you have no clue to what is required when you enlist.
Obviously you have no clue to what is required when you enlist.
actually quite easy to enlist.. I almost enlisted when I was done with high school... went introduced myself had a chat with a nice man, took an English and math exam-- the gent. there told me I had the highest score ever recorded in both and they weren't about to let me go with a big smile on his face..I told him I'd have to think about it some more and discuss it with the fam. that I was just being curious at this stage and not ready for commitments... Anyhow he gave me some parting army gifts in the form of a pen and a couple of shirts, and I am oh oh oh so grateful I left before signing my life away.. though they did harass by phone for a while after... that is how easy it is to hand your life to the devil and go get your head chopped off somewhere, because someone filled your head with freedom fries and spreading of 'democracy' to uncivilized people who are in desperate need for 711 and mcdies.. really no mystery!.....
peace!
Text without context is pretext If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him
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