In Reply to: Re: What is the most dangerous idea in religion today? posted by Mr. Don on July 17, 2007 at 20:30:25:
"It does seem though some of your information may have come from that beacon of intellect Rosie O'Donell as it seems I her her make some similar observations."
I'm not sure if it is Rosie's politics or sexuality that bothers you most, probably both, but it is certainly a red herring to dismiss my arguments about atrocities by Christian soldiers by associating them with Rosie's views, as if that made them any less credible. Obviously, your mind is made up and you don't want to be confused by the facts.
Facts are facts, no matter how much you deny them, and the fact is U.S. soldiers have been convicted in U.S. courts of law for rape and murder on the battlefield. Seen from a perspective far different from yours, those soldiers are Christian terrorists.
The following is from a recent news item, and no it's not from Rosie:
August 5, 2007
A 23-year-old Army private was sentenced last night to 110 years in prison, a day after a military jury convicted him of rape and four counts of murder for his role in the attack last year on an Iraqi family in Mahmudiya, a hostile Sunni Arab town south of Baghdad.
The private, Jesse Spielman, was also found guilty of conspiracy to commit rape and housebreaking with the intent to commit rape, said a spokesman at Fort Campbell, Ky., where the hearing was held. The jury consisted mostly of Army officers from the fort.
Private Spielman is the third soldier from Company B, First Battalion, 502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne Division to be convicted of murder and rape in the case, in which soldiers sexually forced themselves on a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and then killed her and her family.
In February, Sgt. Paul E. Cortez, 24, was sentenced to 90 years in prison; last November, an Army judge sentenced Specialist James P. Barker to 100 years in prison. Sergeant Cortez and Specialist Barker will each be eligible for parole after 10 years in prison, according to Dan Christensen, one of Private Spielman’s civilian lawyers.
Prosecutors said the three soldiers and another private in their unit, Steven D. Green, who was discharged on psychiatric ground apparently before the Army learned of the episode, had barged into the family’s home, where three of them raped Abeer Qassim al-Janabi while her parents and 7-year-old sister were kept in a back room.
The next phase of the government’s prosecution in the Mahmudiya rape and murder will be the trial of Mr. Green, in a federal court in Kentucky.
Prosecutors have said he was the ringleader and enthusiastically urged the other soldiers to join in the attack on the family. It was Mr. Green, prosecutors say, who after raping Abeer killed her and her family with an AK-47 that the family was legally allowed to keep in the house.