Probably not true, but it should be:
HOW TO STOP ISLAMIC TERRORISTS . . . it worked once in our History . . .
Once in US history an episode of Islamic terrorism was very quickly stopped. It happened in the Philippines about 1911, when Gen. John J. Pershing was in command of the garrison. There had been numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, so “Black Jack” told his boys to catch the perps and teach them a lesson.
Forced to dig their own graves, the terrorists were all tied to posts, execution style. The US soldiers then brought in pigs and slaughtered them, rubbing their bullets in the blood and fat. Thus, the terrorists were terrorized; they saw that they would be contaminated with hogs’ blood. This would mean that they could not enter Heaven, even if they died as terrorist martyrs.
All but one was shot, their bodies dumped into the grave, and the hog guts dumped atop the bodies. The lone survivor was allowed to escape back to the terrorist camp and tell his brethren what happened to the others. This brought a stop to terrorism in the Philippines for the next 50 years.
There were other stories about stratagems employed by Pershing that probably WERE true. The one story about how he used the game of Chess to rope in a local warlord into exchanging visits, then using the visit to the warloard’s village to stage a ‘firepower demonstration’.
Point is that even if Pershing didn’t do it, he likely promoted the story to gain that very psychological edge. Even as a lowly captain, Pershing was demonstrating his ability to play at the strategic level.