{"id":189977,"date":"2010-01-19T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/19\/because-its-not-a-war-on-islam\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T02:40:00","slug":"because-its-not-a-war-on-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/19\/because-its-not-a-war-on-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Because It’s Not a War on Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, they have just discovered that sniper scopes purchased for the Marine Corps contain verses from the Christian bible<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Following an ABC News report that thousands of gun sights used by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan are inscribed with secret Bible references, a spokesperson for the Marine Corps said the Corps is ‘concerned’ and will discuss the matter with the weapons manufacturer.<\/p>\n

“We are aware of the issue and are concerned with how this may be perceived,” Capt. Geraldine Carey, a spokesperson for the Marine Corps, said in a statement to ABC News. “We will meet with the vendor to discuss future sight procurements.” Carey said that when the initial deal was made in 2005 it was the only product that met the Corps needs.<\/p>\n

However, a spokesperson for CentCom, the U.S. military’s overall command in Iraq and Aghanistan, said he did not understand why the issue was any different from U.S. money with religious inscriptions on it. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n

Ummm\u2026\u2026\u2026Because inscribing Christian verses on weapons that you kill Muslims<\/span> with will make it that much more difficult for US troops to train with Muslim troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and because it’s likely to inspire more violence against American troops, because it is another piece of evidence that Islamic radicals will use to show that this is a war against Islam?<\/p>\n

That kind of fits the definition of, “Contrary to good order and discipline,” doesn’t it.<\/p>\n

The Marines get it, the US Army doesn’t.<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, it’s the the Army, along with the US Air Force in which the bulk of complaints about discrimination by aggressive Evangelicals have been reported.<\/p>\n

It appears that this has been common knowledge among gun enthusiasts for about 4 years<\/a>, but the military never noticed what the Trijicon corporation was doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, they have just discovered that sniper scopes purchased for the Marine Corps contain verses from the Christian bible: Following an ABC News report that thousands of gun sights used by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan are inscribed with secret Bible references, a spokesperson for the Marine Corps said the Corps is ‘concerned’ …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,970,1008,1063,1006,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-corruption","category-defense-procurement","category-iraq","category-military","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}