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Posted on 02/20/2002 9:02:36 AM PST by RCW2001
| Terrorist's Body Wrapped In Pigskin |
"Residents of Gush Katif decided to take matters into their own hands," said local Rabbi Yosef Al-Nekaveh yesterday, "and when we were involved in evacuating the bodies of the three murdered Israelis [at the Kisufim attack this past Monday night], they placed pig fat and pigskin on the body of the dead terrorist." He said that a "right-wing kibbutznik" had supplied them with the swinish tissues. Arab MKs responded with outrage. Ahmed Tibi said, ""This is a pig-like act of a man who is not worthy of being a rabbi," while Abdel Malek Dahamshe added, "The ethical inferiority and lowliness that the settlers have reached is intolerable. This is an act of first-degree desecration of God's name... It is especially shocking to think that a rabbi did this." On the other side of the spectrum, MK Tzvi Hendel said, "If these primitive murderers stuff their brains with nonsense about Paradise and who-knows-how-many virgins waiting only for them, then they certainly believe in the other nonsense that being buried with pigskin blocks their way to Paradise." |
One wag (wise guy?) I know suggested we fly a large pig in every flight instead of marshals as this would be a serious deterrent to would-be suicides trying to blow themselves and the plane up!
http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/pershing.htm has some information about this, but is inconclusive. Typing 'pershing' and 'pigskin' into a search engine such as google might find something for you.
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Nice to see the "moderate", "civilized" MKs defend the sanctity of their terrorists...maybe they should be wrapped in pig skin too. After all, Pershing used the same tactic to break the Islamics in the Phillipine colonies.
Let's roll!!
My husband placed a bag of "terrorist bane" on the back window ledge of my car. A bag of Rolets!
Corky's is great, isn't it? I'll wait 90 minutes for a table when in Memphis, and I'll skip lunch, too. I get Corky's on the Brain when I know I'm going there for dinner. Hard to concentrate.
The projectile for the new Enfield rifle was part of a self-contained paper cartridge that contained both ball and powder charge. It required only the end to be bitten off and the cartridge then rammed down the muzzle of the weapon. To facilitate this process the cartridge was heavily greased - with animal fat. Sepoys heard and quickly passed on the rumour that the grease was a mixture of cow (sacred to Hindus) and pig (abhorrent to Moslems) fat. Biting such a cartridge would break the caste of the Hindu sepoys and defile the Moslems. The British realised their mistake and tried to have the sepoys make up their own grease from beeswax or vegetable oils, but in the atmosphere of distrust that prevailed in 1857 the damage had been done. The stage was set for a great tragedy to unfold.Though the Mutiny dragged on for almost two years it was effectively fought and won in a six-month whirlwind of murder, siege, atrocity, forced marches, heroism, savagery and brutality. Women and children were butchered by both sides. Great cities were sacked and the British armies which swept across the north of India to relieve their besieged comrades and avenge their murdered compatriots were perhaps the most enraged and cruellest troops ever to have been put in the field by the government and people of Britain.
MKM
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