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The government isn't an individual. Many individuals in the military from the lowest rungs right on up (like the previous president) are fundamentalist in their faith and allow their extremist faith to become a big part of their work. In an area so religiously charged, it seems like a recipe for disaster allowing these individuals to express the hatred and/or extremism of their religion in the way they apparently are. I cannot imagine a more inflammatory way for a soldier in the Middle East to act than to be handing out Bibles to Muslim children. This "Jesus killed Mohammed" situation is just more of the same.
If would help if military leadership could stand up and remind the soldiers that we have a secular military made up of people with many faiths and lack of faiths. They represent the secular government in their service. They're free to worship on their own time, to pray, to take communion, etc., but when they put on their gear and head out they're US soldiers first.
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