USPS: Families Can Send Bibles to Military in Mideast
Thursday, April 10, 2003
WASHINGTON — Bibles and other religious materials can be sent by family members to servicemen and women serving in the Middle East, a top postal official stressed Thursday.
Postal Vice President Azeezaly Jaffer's comments came after a report that a North Carolina man was told by a postal clerk that he could not send a book of Bible verses to his son, serving in Kuwait, because of regulations against sending non-Islamic materials to Middle Eastern countries.
"The regulation is intended for mass mailings, but there is nothing precluding a family member from sending a Bible or Torah or Quran or whatever the case may be to a soldier that is stationed there," Jaffer said.
Materials mailed to service members overseas are handled by the Military Postal Service Agency, which delivers them to soldiers in the field.
At the Pentagon, Lt. Commander Don Soule agreed that there is no restriction against a family member sending religious materials for the personal use of a service member. The restriction is against mass mailings of material to be distributed, he said.
Many Islamic countries restrict what can be sent there and a postal regulation for military mail going to those countries lists religious materials contrary to the Islamic faith or depicting nude or seminude persons, pornographic or sexual items or nonauthorized political materials.
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What's wrong with this? This is simply stating that family members can send bibles and other religious material to a service member. Nothing wrong with that. Mass mailings, on the other hand, would definitely be more inflammitory. The military specifically said the regulations were to prevent mass mailings of religious materials, so what's the problem?
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OOPSS!!! I'm sorry I really wasn't clear on this. These msulim nations that are defended and supported by the US and other Western powers make it such a hassle to even send a freakin bible to your son. What are they afriad of? Its OK for these troops to spill blood in defense of your lands which your own people are unable or unwilling to defend and our boys can't get their bibles??
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I don't see that being the case here. I just see a case of a postal clerk fucking up the enforcement of the proper regulations. Who the hell is this Jaffer guy anyways? Is he an post office official here, or in the middle east?
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irishmick79 wrote:I don't see that being the case here. I just see a case of a postal clerk fucking up the enforcement of the proper regulations. Who the hell is this Jaffer guy anyways? Is he an post office official here, or in the middle east?
