Converting for Jesus in Afghanistan

While making a documentary in Afghanistan a year ago, Brian Hughes, an American documentary maker and former member of the US military, came across a group evangelical Christian soldiers in the US army who are trying to convert the Afghan Muslim population into Christianity.

 

As Jeremy Scahill writes, a video recently aired on Al Jazeera shows Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Hensley, the chief of the US military chaplains in Afghanistan, telling American soldiers that as followers of Jesus Christ, they a