You have to love the religious right. Now they're putting out stories calling the Indonesian people "anti-American" because the Indonesians have a problem with religious right groups kidnaping Muslim orphan tsunami victims and raising them as Christians. Apparently the religious right wasn't sorry at all for their little recruiting plan.
Check out this incredible act of hubris from Gary "Butch" Bauer:
Christian activist Gary Bauer of Campaign for Working Families is outraged by the Indonesian government's demands and restrictions on foreign and particularly American relief workers. "There's an old saying in Washington that, in this city, no good deed goes unpunished," he notes, "but I think that phrase would more accurately be applied to the Islamic world."I think there ought to be a rule that any religion that has to kidnap children in order to indoctrinate them into their faith isn't allowed to publicly talk about how they're being oppressed.
Bauer also takes issue with the mainstream media's apparent slant in its reporting on the World Help rescue effort. In a recent newsletter he noted that several papers, including the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun, seemed to be focusing on what the activist described ironically as "a new danger facing the orphans of Indonesia -- Christianity." In other words, he says what apparently concerned the mainstream media most was the fact that a Christian ministry headed by a graduate of "Reverend Jerry Falwell's Liberty University" had "airlifted 300 tsunami orphans from disease-infested Banda Aceh to Jakarta, where a Christian children's home was prepared to receive and raise them."
