Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Military Religious Freedom Advocate Mikey Weinstein Profiled

Foreign Policy yesterday carried a profile of Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. It says:
Although he is frequently attacked for waging a war on Christianity, all but a fraction of Weinstein's clients are practicing Catholics and Protestants of mainline denominations who claim to be targeted by proselytizing evangelical superiors. The root of the problem, Weinstein believes, is a cluster of well-funded groups dedicated to Christianizing the military and proselytizing abroad.
MMRF is currently preparing to file suit on behalf of Zachari Klawonn, a Muslim Army specialist at Fort Hood who says he has been harassed and threatened after the shooting massacre at Ft. Hood last November by Maj. Nidal Hasan. Klawonn says even before that, he constantly suffered cultural and religious discrimination. Commanders at Ft. Hood deny the charges, saying they have responded quickly to claims of anti-Muslim bigotry.