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Sounds like a good practice to adopt, as jihad will start to increase in America as the muslim population increases.
They should put dogs in there too.
If you do a search on it, it comes back with unsubstantiated urban legend. Here’s some links you can chech:https://duckduckgo.com/?q=urban+legends+sites
Snopes is a leftist site and nothing there is to be believed unless it can be verified elsewhere.
They are not the last word, though they would present themselves as such.
I certainly would trust the words of Daniel Greenfield, than those of Snopes. Greenfield, has a reputation for integrity that he is not going to tarnish by propagating BS to advance anything.
Back when this country fought wars with victory as the main objective.
In my own case a family friend lead a sniper team in Ramadi when it was bad guy country. In the care packages I sent him I always included a can of the traditional Spam. I told him I did not expect his team to eat the stuff, but to cook it and then dip their bullets in it. He should then let the locals know, but never an officer or senior NCO. This way when they shot one of then he would go straight to hell and not even get to wave at the 72 virgins as he went by. They thought that was really funny.
Yes, Snopes is not to be trusted unfortunately. Ping to Louis Foxwell.
I hope they saved the bacon.
That would have been a waste.
Pershing (as one of the ‘other officers’) probably did do this however it was ‘Colonel Alexander Rodgers of the 6th Cavalry who accomplished the objective by taking advantage of religious prejudice doing what the bayonets and Krags had been unable to accomplish. Rodgers inaugurated a system of burying all dead juramentados in a common grave with the carcasses of slaughtered pigs. The Mohammedan religion forbids contact with pork; and this relatively simple device resulted in the withdrawal of juramentados to sections not containing a Rodgers. Other officers took up the principle, adding new refinements to make it additionally unattractive to the Moros. In some sections the Moro juramentado was beheaded after death and the head sewn inside the carcass of a pig. And so the rite of running juramentado, at least semi-religious in character, ceased to be in Sulu. The last cases of this religious mania occurred in the early decades of the century. The juramentados were replaced by the amucks. .. who were simply homicidal maniacs with no religious significance attaching to their acts.’
Rear Admiral Daniel P Mannix III had contended that, “What finally stopped the Juramentados was the custom of wrapping the dead man in a pig’s skin and stuffing his mouth with pork”.
snopes has been deprecated for years. i trust nothing from it.
Yes, that's the major drawback.
—Don’t Trust Snopes! —
Snopes is good for lots of stuff, but if what you’re looking for has even the slightest political angle, look elsewhere!
Burying Jihadis with dead pigs is an atrocity against pigs, but war is war.
Army History magazine, Spring 2011 issue, has a cover story (page 30) called “The Violent End of Insurgency on Samar, 1901-1902.” It is a very good description of the brutality of the fight, and the hard American commanders who led it.
http://www.history.army.mil/armyhistory/AH79%28W%29r.pdf
In their hands they had the potent Army General Order 100 (aka the Lieber Code) which came about during the US Civil War. It outlined the Federal army code of conduct during war, as well as the Institution of Martial Law and treatment of civilians.
While the Lieber Code eventually served as nucleus for the Geneva Conventions, it clearly distinguishes the treatment of hostile civilians during wartime, from jurisprudence during times of peace.