Joyous. The Fucking Crusades.

Our military's turning Iraq and Afghanistan into a holy war. And we all remember how well it went the last time when Christian armies swept into the Middle East and employed a kill-or-convert policy.

How bad is it? Oh, you know - they're only embedding fucking evangelists with the troops:

When I interviewed Mikey Weinstein the other day, he mentioned video that they had found that showed Christian missionaries actually embedded with American troops in Afghanistan. The missionaries actually traveled with American troops, handing out Bibles in the local language to Afghanis. This was done for a show on JCTV called Travel the Road. You can see the MRFF page about this here.... Here's what MRFF writes about this situation:

Season 2 of this series ended with three episodes filmed in Afghanistan -- Journey to the Line: Afghanistan: Part 1, Terrors of the Night: Afghanistan: Part 2, and Fog of War: Afghanistan: Part 3. For these episodes, the missionaries were completely embedded and, thus, actually permitted to stay on U.S. military bases, travel with a public affairs unit, and accompany and film troops on patrols, all for the purpose of evangelizing Afghanis and producing a television show promoting the Christian religion. The number of DoD Public Affairs regulations violated in the military'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'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 ("Darri" dialect) to the Afghani people.

This shit is not fucking legal. It is not fucking helpful. And it's even worse when the fucking Christian soldiers get in on the proselytizing:

Jason Leopold has more on the situation I reported last week where the military allowed Christian missionaries to be embedded with them, travel with them to meet Afghan villagers and then hand out Bibles to them and proselytize them to convert to Christianity. One of the things I didn't mention was that an active duty military chaplain said in one of the videos that he tries to convert Afghani Muslims himself:

In one scene, an Army Chaplain named Capt. Brad Hanna of the Oklahoma National Guard, talks about the possibility of a "revival" in Afghanistan and says he frequently speaks to Afghans about converting to Christianity. Hanna was made a full-time support chaplain for the Oklahoma National Guard after he returned from Afghanistan.

And he wasn't the only soldier helping the missionaries:

Additionally, Decker and Scott prominently cite SSgt. Sheldon Hoyt, who was stationed in Afghanistan with the Oklahoma National Guard's 45th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment, as playing a hands-on role in helping the missionaries facilitate their proselytizing as opposed to simply being a tour guide of sorts.

These fuckers are now planning to step up their efforts in Afghanistan. Obama, as Commander in Chief, needs to put a swift end to this fuckery. It was bad enough when we thought we were spreading democracy at the point of a gun. The fact that we're handing people Bibles while training guns on them, and that this is done by American fucking soldiers in fucking uniform on official fucking duty, is so far beyond outrageous it's unbelievable.

Things like this make me ashamed to be an American.