Donation of Qurans/Investigations at USAFA/Stopped courses

Good Afternoon,

I am honestly scared by recent courses of action taken by your group. Over the past few months, I have read news relating to the burning of the Quran in Florida, religious discrimination at the Air Force Academy, and now stopping a course at Vandenberg relating to Christianity. I read further and learned a little about your organization and I truly applaud what your organization stands for. However, I am disheartened and concerned about some of the courses of action.

Months ago I wrote an email but never sent it, because the issue was stopped and the burning of Qurans was never completed.

First, the cadets at the Academy that complain about religious discrimination are likely the same individuals who make reference to the Bible during nearly every conversation they have with other cadets. Most cadets prefer to be left alone and not to be preached to. Unfortunately when cadets request not to be preached at or anything in contradiction to the “preaching” cadets, they are labeled as discriminatory. Please understand that cadets do not intentionally discriminate against more religious cadets, quite the opposite, those heavily religious cadets should be instructed that they are not to quote Bible verses during daily conversation. It’s a reality check the cadets need to take.

Second and ultimately more important; why has your group chose the route to destroy Christianity to make muslims feel better. Why would your group choose to provide Qurans to Afghani’s for each book burned in Florida? I do not understand this and I am personally saddened by this action. Where are the 1000s of flags we should give out for ones burned in Iraq and Afghanistan because of the mere mention of burning a book? I do not agree with burning books, its a waste of money and inflammatory. But it is freedom of speech and I would rather people burn the book that has created millions of terrorists than the flag that has created millions of patriots. I also believe the people of the U.S. need to realize we are under attack. No matter what an Imam will say, Islam is an infection that threatens the daily lives of every American. I have been deployed to OIF/OEF and in many other places all over the world, what I hope people will understand is the average Muslim does not want to hurt every Christian, but the larger movement of the religion intends to spread throughout the world; embed itself in our government and society and then control everything.

At some point, I hope that we will begin to understand that the Constitution was written to stop the government from FORCING religion on us. But we have to understand that a cross at a high school graduation or the mention of Christianity at a military ceremony is not the Government forcing us to believe. It is recognizing that we are a country built by Anglo-Saxon Christians seeking freedom from religious persecution, freedom from unfair taxes, and searching for prosperity. Please do not assist the liberal cause, people who hate America, and want to continuously change it. Change is great, if it is in the right direction, if we were to reverse course and understand the founding principles of Christianity is what helped make this country great, then maybe we could return to the Kennedy days and Reagan days when people loved this country and looked out for it. Please continue your fight for religious freedom but do not bow to the political pressures forcing us to glorify Islam.

Thank you.
Very respectfully,
(name withheld)