McClatchy has an interesting story about Marines in Falluja handing out coins with gospel verse on them — and about the upset this has caused.
Now residents of the city are abuzz that some Americans whom they consider occupiers are also acting as Christian missionaries. Residents said some Marines at the western entrance to their city have been passing out the coins for two days in what they call a ‘humiliating’ attempt to convert them to Christianity.
In the markets, people crowded around men with the coins, passing them to each other and asking in surprise, ‘Have you seen this?’
In itself, this doesn’t add up to much. But it does show you how totally incompatible these two cultures are. That’s a story I’d like to read more about.
