Posted on 03/16/2012 10:34:27 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
With tensions at an all time high in Afghanistan following the Koran burnings, the urination video, and the killing of 16 civilians attention is now falling on a long line of "Infidel" apparel and gear.
Exhausted from how they feel they're being perceived, troops have taken to wearing patches and carrying items that label themselves infidels and offer translation in local dialect.
In the Muslim world an infidel means literally "one without faith" who rejects the central teachings of Islam.
Military.com tracked down Clayton Montgomery at Mil-Spec Monkey, a large online seller of infidel gear, who says his most popular item by far is the "Pork Eating Crusader Patch."
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Love the fangs!
I’d get some too if he were eating an easily-identified piece of bacon.
The crusader on the patch looks like he’s eating a bull scrotum.
Gotta love the idea, though.
It ranks right up there with my wish to see the Saudi flag alight.
If this is true God Bless our soldiers! The terms and symbols developed by our men in the field get right to the point and are UN-PC!
I guess we can now refer to SecDef ‘Pancetta’ /s
You wouldn’t be allowed to wear it on your uniform at all. It might be a hit, but I doubt it’s on any American uniforms.
Doesn’t really matter what’s on it, you can’t just add a patch to your combat uniform as far as I know.
Sign me up.
It would make a great tattoo though!
Is there an actual difference between the flesh of a pig and that of a Saracen? Apart from the dryness that is.
People have all the diseases that can infect another person. Eat someone who had Hepatitis - get Hepatitis, etc, etc, etc.
Sort of like mucking about in Egyptian tombs isn't such a good idea. Breathing in spores of microbes that have evolved over the last few thousand years to digest dessicated human flesh? What could go wrong?
“The Crusaders, when out of pork, would (at the siege of Antioch at least) dine upon the flesh of the dead ‘Saracen’. It was reported that it was a little dry, but with a bit of mead - it did not go down ill. ;) “
Citations, please.
Thanks.
I remember reading about this.
http://www.crusades-encyclopedia.com/cannibalism.html
It’s not so much historically verified, but it’s at the least hyperbole on the actual goings on. Old wives’ tales, if you will. Remember, the winners write the history.
I got it from several different sources - including Harold Lamb and his book on the Crusades. Runciman as well. They in turn got it from several sources - both Christian and Muslim.
From the article cited above.........
Radulph of Caen, an eyewitness to events at Ma’arra in 1098, wrote, “In Ma’arra our troops boiled pagan adults in cooking-pots; they impaled children on spits and devoured them grilled.” (1)
The chronicler Albert of Aix seemed to rank Muslims lower than dogs when he wrote, “Not only did our troops not shrink from eating dead Turks and Saracens; they also ate dogs!”
Guibert of Nogent, in his work Historia Hierosolymitana, provides more details on the incident of cannibalism at Ma’arra. There he notes that whenever the Tafurs who took part in the expedition discovered “scraps of flesh from the pagan's bodies” cannibalism was practiced with little discretion. According to Guibert, the Tafurs were well aware that the Muslims feared them because of cannibalism. For that reason, on at least one occasion, the Tafurs publicly “roasted the bruised body of a Turk over a fire as if it were meat for eating, in full view of the Turkish forces.” Guibert notes that the Franks also practiced cannibalism, but they did so “in secret and as rarely as possible.”
Oh, How I love it! (and I don't even pork!)
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