Onward, Christian Soldiers

[pynchonoid]

Bringing aid and the Bible, the man who called Islam
wicked 

Matthew Engel in Washington
Friday April 4, 2003
The Guardian 

It could only happen with an American invasion. Poised
behind the troops, waiting for a signal that Iraq is
safe enough for them to operate in, are the
evangelical Christians - carrying food in one hand and
the Bible in the other. 

All the groups, generously funded by American
churchgoers, are likely to do a magnificent job in
offering water, food, medical help and comfort to a
traumatised population. But they are causing alarm
among Muslims, who fear vulnerable Iraqis will be
cajoled into conversion, and Christians, some of whom
warn that the missionaries will be prime targets in an
unpacified Iraq. 

Muslim worries have been heightened because the man
leading the charge into Iraq is the Rev Franklin
Graham, who delivered the invocation at President
Bush's inauguration, the son of Billy Graham and a
fierce critic of Islam. He is on record as calling it
a "wicked, violent" religion, with a God different
from that of Christianity. "The two are different as
lightness and darkness," he wrote. [...] 

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<http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,929399,00.html>

...enjoy!

-Doug

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