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To: George Varnum

Load up on pork! They eat me, they’re going to get a healthy dose of digested bacon and smoked ribs.


2 posted on 01/29/2013 7:17:23 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: rarestia

I seem to recall reading somewhere that during the Crusades, particularly at the siege of Ma’arra back around 1098 ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ma%27arrat_al-Numan

..That the starving Crusaders took to dining on the remains of their foe, as well as any Orthodox Christian they came across “by mistake” (?).

Albert of Aix remarked that “the Christians did not shrink from eating not only killed Turks or Saracens, but even dogs...”

Yeah; I suppose back then they couldn’t be too fussy.

I’m pretty sure the Catholic Church, however, no longer condones this sort of thing; especially as a religious obligation.
I don’t know for sure but would be really surprised to find it in their school curriculum like it seems to be currently taught at these prestigious Islamic educational institutions in Egypt.

It sure is getting weird out there, folks!


5 posted on 01/29/2013 7:38:47 AM PST by George Varnum (Liberty, like our Forefather's Flintlock Musket, must be kept clean, oiled, and READY!)
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