From The American Family Association
A Pentagon adviser is blasting what he calls an "egregious" and "politically correct" decision by the U.S. military to destroy Bibles sent to troops in Afghanistan.
Reuters reported earlier this week that Bibles in Afghan languages sent to a U.S. soldier at a base in Afghanistan were confiscated by chaplains and later destroyed to make sure that troops did not violate rules which bar them from sharing their faith. According to the report, the Bibles were destroyed after Al Jazeera television showed soldiers at a Bible class on a base with a stack of Bibles translated into the local Pashto and Dari languages.
Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis (USA-Ret.) is a Pentagon adviser and military and national security analyst. He finds it mind-boggling to think that military officials would allow Al Jazeera to walk through the front gate of a forward operating base and videotape soldiers conducting a Bible study.
"This is a bit disingenuous, I think, that you would have a Saudi Arabian-sponsored Al Jazeera television network making tapes on an American facility of a Bible group so that they could target and discriminate against our soldiers," he notes. 
Christian troops give up a great deal to put themselves in harm’s way, so they should not have to give up their own personal witness in that environment, according to Maginnis.
"By and large, soldiers should have the right to share their faith wherever they are," he contends, "and for the political correctness crew to come aboard and declare that we’re going to destroy Bibles because of the sensitivity of the local command, I find egregious."
The Scriptures need to be distributed by the local churches of these countries.We in American can pay for the Bibles(plus shipping). I have mixed feeelings about our troops being involved with this because they’re there put down a violent situation.
I think I understand what you are saying. My only response would be that the soldiers do not give up their rights as US citizens to vote, to speak, etc. Why should they be expected to give up their right to freedom to express that religion?
If the government of Afghanistan is such that they will not allow the soldiers to express their liberties, then I have to wonder why the US military would support such a regime as not only refuses to be a nursing father to the true church of Jesus Christ, but also insists upon being the nursing father of an ungodly and unrepentant religion.
Wow, I didn’t know troops have the samerights as any u.s. citizen, well they don’t. If so they would all have long hair and beards, but anyways. Why do they have to burn the bibles? can’t they collect them and take them to a country that could use them? taking the bibles I can se, but destroying them in such a Nazi way speaks oodles.
Mike,
Just as any employer has the right to set dress standards for employees, so too does the US gov’t. What no employer has the right to do is deny constitutional rights. It may be that there will subsequently be proof that the soldiers were attempting to do something illegal with those Bibles. But confiscation of personal property is draconian in itself, whether the Bibles were subsequently destroyed or not.