What I suspected was either a gullibility factor, ie that Mickey191 really did believe the veracity of the article/source of information, or that Mickey191 was trying to push a "Christians are victims of Muslim domination" agenda. Or at the very least, that the US government/military was not allowing Christian reading materials to be sent to the troops. Which is utter bullshit, as any intelligent person knows.

The reason for the rule for not allowing bulk materials from being sent, is to keep the Christian missionaries (or US personnel from acting as such by distributing bulk Christian materials in the Middle East without formal permission) out. A Good Thing, under the current circumstances. An even better idea that the missionaries weren't able to do it during wartime. As others have pointed out, it is easy to see and figure out that the story was based on information that was only applicable during the conquering combat phase of the war in Iraq, and that once the conquering combat phase was over, the rules were changed back to what I'm guessing is the more usual rules for mail to Muslim countries.

As to the suggestion that people were intimating it was made up of whole cloth, the story does sound suspiciously like the stuff of urban legend to begin with. When you add the right wing distortion of the facts to the equation, it doesn't sound like anything but right wing fundie hand wringing and breast beating.