ISRAELI police plans to place bags of pig lard on buses to deter suicide attacks

New.Com.AU ^ | February 12, 2004 | staff writer

[yankeedame]

Pig lard to stop terror attacks

From correspondents in Jerusalem
February 12, 2004

ISRAELI police have come up with plans to place bags of pig lard on buses in a bid to deter Palestinian militants from carrying out suicide attacks, the Maariv daily reported.

Rabbinical authorities have given the idea its approval on the grounds that it could be a life-saving measure even though pigs are also considered impure by Jews.

Authorities believe that the move could discourage Palestinians from carrying out attacks as pieces of their exploded body could come into contact with the pig fat, prejudicing their chances of entering into paradise.

The paper said that the rabbinical dispensation could mean that security forces also hang bags of lard in shopping malls and schools.

Public buses have been a favourite target for Palestinian suicide bombers since the start of the intifada in September 2000.

Agence France-Presse

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Seriously? Is this really on the level...? :)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think ConAgra is out with a new product; microwave pork rinds.

[ScudEast]

I know I shouldn't joke about things as serious as this but imagine trying to explain this to Martians. You couldn't make this stuff up.

[amordei]

Why wouldn't imams act likewise and indicate that jihad permits contact with pig products?

They are a devious lot, you know.

[sarasota]

Pig fat could prejudice their chances of entering paradise. That is just hilarious. If only they understood that murder will keep them out of paradise. Period.

[pau1f0rd]

Let Loose the Pigs of War!

[phugg]

They should make buses that look like pigs with seats upholstered in pig skin.

I know that they may be considered unclean, but what is dirtier than a suicide bomber.

[Diogenesis]

Just mix the terrorist-remains with pig lard.

[tkathy]

The ignorant, stupid belief system that preaches suicide and murder and hatred, is so ignorant and stupid that this may deter more ignorant, stupid murder.

[Ophiucus]

That is hilarious. It's like the scene out of Clancy's latest where the agent places the football in the dying terrorist's hands and says, "old fashioned American pigskin." The terrorist's eyes widen in horror before he dies.

I wonder though, since the contact wouldn't be voluntary if that would give them a pass on their way to their barbaric paradise.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Why wouldn't imams act likewise and indicate that jihad permits contact with pig products?


You are right, their religious leaders will issue a fatwa that in this case it is okay for muslims to break that law because they are battling infidels.

[Constitution Day]

Reminds me of this story from '02:

Terrorist's Body Wrapped In Pigskin

[sarasota]

And send the terrorists remains (mixed with pig fat) to Arafat.

[blackdog]

Make clothing with vac-packed bacon or lard built right into it, in plain view.

"Make sure you wear your bacon coat to work today dear".

How do you even begin to have a civilized meaningful dialogue with cultures like this?

[blackdog]

Splice pig DNA onto vaccine DNA and inject all of Islam for a few decades. Then disclose it.

[txhurl]

As long as it works.

[DonQ]

Actually Jewish and Moslem prohibitions regarding swine differ. Moslems aren't permitted to touch pigs, live or dead, or any part of pigs, such a pig leather or pig bristles. Jews are not permitted to eat pigs, and that is all; Jews may wear pig leather and presumably keep pigs as pets (I'd name mine Yasser) and use pig bristle brushes (but I suspect the brushes would be for paint or shoeshines, not toothbrushes) and there is rabbinic approval of using pig heart valves for transplants to humans.

If it were up to me, I'd have every doorknob in Israel upholstered in pig leather as a subtle hint.

During the British Mandate the British (as the Americans had done in the Philippines a half century earlier) tried to discourage Moslem guerrilla action by stopping the Moslem funerals and putting a dead pig or a pig's hide into the coffin with the body. It appears that had little effect, the Moslems at least felt that once a Moslem is dead his soul won't be punished for whatever his corpse comes in contact with. About ten years an Israeli chemist (who was also a rabbi) came up with a variation of the dumdum bullet, with a drop or two of pig's blood in the point, and suggested these bullets be used with lots of publicity against Arabs. On the other hand, the Palestinians ridiculed the idea, saying their enemies cannot influence their admission to paradise.

[Dawgreg]

I recall hearing a story about Blackjack Pershing and an up-rising of Arabs. Sorry I forget when or where but he buried the dead rioters and threw dead pigs in their graves.( If I have this wrong, please correct me). Anyhoo, there were no more uprisings.

[SouthernFreebird]

This would be funny if it wasn't so damned scary.
That there are so many demented arabs in the world whos god see nothing wrong with killing people but will damn them to hell for some pig juice is alarming to say the least.