Subject: [Politically Ccorrect] Anger over pig's blood bullets poster
From: "Robert Nordlander"
Subject: [Politically Ccorrect] Anger over pig's blood bullets poster
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:09:32 -0500
07/15/05
I wonder what Judeo/Islamic culture does with Porky Pig cartoons?
Admittedly, they are oldies, but they were pretty good.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/15/wus15.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/15/ixworld.html
Anger over pig's blood bullets poster
By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
(Filed: 15/07/2005)
The California National Guard is under attack for a poster promoting
the execution of Islamic terrorists with bullets dipped in pig's blood
to deny them entry to paradise.
The flier, at the guard's headquarters in Sacramento, attributes the
practice to John J Pershing, the First World War general.
"Maybe it is time for this segment of history to repeat itself, maybe
in Iraq?" it states. "The question is, where do we find another Black
Jack Pershing?"
An apocryphal story that resurfaced after Sept-ember 11 claims that
Pershing, then military governor of Moro province in the Philippines,
captured 50 Muslim extremists and executed 49 using bullets dipped in
pig's blood.
Muslim leaders and peace activists, who saw the poster during a tour
of guard -headquarters, said the message raised concerns about the
soldiers' attitudes to Islam.
A guard spokesman, after initially defending the poster, said it had
been removed.
A spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Santa
Clara, said: ''It is troubling to see a governmental organisation that
is dedicated to security, promoting religiously insensitive ideas."
The tour came after peace groups and a senator raised questions about
the unit, set up to oversee a range of anti-terrorism projects in the
state.
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