....And The Crusades Continue...

When will the Enlightenment come to the U.S.? Oh, that's right, it did, over 40 years ago, and it caused the religious right to go bonkers.


U.S. Christian Evangelicals planted in Kurdish Iraq
By Bill Berkowitz, 2009-02-22 12:58:37


Building Empires: U.S. Evangelical Christians' Kurdish Crusade While most
Talk2Action readers are familiar with the growing influence of Christian
Zionists and their close relationship with Israel, you may not be aware of
the penetration of American evangelicals into Northern Iraq. I recently
had the opportunity to interview Mike Reynolds, a longtime investigative
reporter who through his research uncovered the special relationship
between Iraqi Kurds and a group of American evangelicals that practices
"spiritual warfare," harbors a deep animosity toward Islam, and views the
region as the evangelistic final frontier. Reynolds: In September 2003,
four months after US forces defeated Saddam Hussein, 350 evangelical
pastors and church leaders assembled in Kirkuk, welcomed by Kurdistan
Regional Government President Massoud Barzani. During the gathering,
George Grant, the American director of the Classical School of The Medes,
declared that `Jesus Christ is Lord over all things; He is Lord over every
Mullah, every Ayatollah, every Imam, and every Mahdi pretender; He is Lord
over the whole of the earth, even Iraq!' You can read the complete
interview at Religion Dispatches:
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/religiousright/1134/med
dling_evangelicals/


Let The Sun Shine In......