Fighting terror with lard!

[ksnecktieman]

The story you are refferring to was most commonly attributed to Gen Pershing. Snopes says it is undetermined.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pershing.htm

To the leaders of our country I do not think there is an option here. I have a son in law in Iraq, and the Iraqi dead are being buried in accordance with Islam customs, even down to the fact their head is oriented properly with Mecca ( or whatever it is supposed to point to).

 

[Sean Smith]

I'm no Koranic scholar, but I don't think this idea really holds water:

“He has only forbidden you dead meat, and blood, and the flesh of swine…But if one is forced (to it) by necessity, without willful disobedience, nor trespassing due limits, - then he is guiltless. For God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.†(Qur’an 2:173)

http://www.islamic-paths.org/Home/English/FAQ/Purity/Halal_Haram.htm#2

The "translations" I've read basically just say not to eat it on purpose.

 

[fish2xs]

Pigs from space.....

I just finished reading "See No Evil" from Robert Baer. I highly
recommend it. He was a CIA case officer overseas from about the
mid to late 70's until fairly recently.

In the latter part of the book he describes an idea he had where
the CIA would fly a stolen Russian cargo plane, loaded with pigs,
and drop them over Mecca during the hajj (or whatever it is called).

They never did it, but my God - would you have loved to be a part
of that or what??

 

[Cool Hand Luke 22:36]

The current policy of hunting down and killing these scumbags is probably the main reason there has not been another terrorist attack in the US.

That plus the message undoubtedly sent to the Saudi Royal Dirtbag Family that if there's another it's over for them, the oil fields will be seized and held for the public good or handed over to a competing ethnic group inside Saudi Arabia.

 

[cordex]

In the latter part of the book he describes an idea he had where
the CIA would fly a stolen Russian cargo plane, loaded with pigs,
and drop them over Mecca during the hajj (or whatever it is called).

They never did it, but my God - would you have loved to be a part
of that or what?

Not particularly.
'Course, I also wouldn't want to bomb the Vatican with aborted fetuses or run an airdrop over Calcutta with live cattle.

Some of you are forgetting your rules of gun safety which can apply elsewhere.

"Be sure of your target and what's behind it."

That applies to your proposed terror attacks on the holy places and religious sensibilities of others just as much as it applies to firing your handgun.

 

[fish2xs]

My only regret would be the loss of many tasty rib dinners. And improper
mission execution brought on from excessive giggling...

 

[Joe Demko]

Killing is only a part of the solution to the problem. Certain people will, unfortunately for them, have to be killed in order to forestall terrorist activity in the short run. In the long run, changing the way the ethnic/religious/national groups spawning the terrorists think is the only viable solution. Unless, of course, your idea is that we can somehow...terrorize...them into doing what we want; or you are a believer in the efficacy of genocide and believe we could simply kill every last one of them.
As for bombing Mecca with pigs, not only would I not want to have been a part of it, it is absolutely the most asinine idea I have ever heard in my entire life. Other than an insult to Islam, what exactly would have been accomplished?

 

[jsalcedo]

Killing them all is indeed not a solution.

Showing the willingness to kill the bad eggs is usually enough to keep the majority in line.

Insulting Islam is not much of a concern because to the fanatics every non- Muslim on earth is an infidel that needs to be converted or killed.

A good analogy is child discipline.

Have you ever seen a set of permissive parents try to raise a child without
ground rules, consistant rewards, punishments and without instilling a basic fundamental moral base reinforced with consequences?


The child turns into a sociopathic leech with no sense of right and wrong.

These fanatical and militant factions just need a good smack down once in a while to show them boundaries and consequences.

 

[Joe Demko]

Insulting Islam is not much of a concern because to the fanatics every non- Muslim on earth is an infidel that needs to be converted or killed.

This does not address what such an act would actually accomplish. How would we have gained by it?

 

[BigG]

mmmmm... chicharones... /homer simpson

 

[HunterGatherer]

We need to change their minds.

That is the funniest thing I've read all day.

You are going to convince them to abandon their worship of death huh?

Pray tell, how?

 

[WilderBill]

I think, just to be safe and helpful, we should send a good supply of pigskin body bags to Israel for use in the removal of whatever is left of the suicide bombers.

It has occured to me that someone with more resources than patience could strike at Mecca.
It might not be a bad idea to suggest that such a thing is much more likely if the militants of the Islamic world aren't persuaded to give up their attacks ASAP.

 

[cordex]

It has occured to me that someone with more resources than patience could strike at Mecca.
It might not be a bad idea to suggest that such a thing is much more likely if the militants of the Islamic world aren't persuaded to give up their attacks ASAP.

Yeah, that'd be a good way of convincing Muslims that we're not at war with their religion.

If there was even a chance the terrorist scumbags thought they could provoke the US into attacking or defiling Mecca, they'd do it in a heartbeat. The second you say "stop, or we'll pig/destroy your holiest places", they'll redouble their attacks, and as soon as you prove that you are really at war with the religion and not just the terrorists, militants would go from a dangerous fringe group to an extremely powerful majority.