posted on February 7, 2003 03:38:38 PM new
I received this from a friend over the Internet. I'd heard it before but have never confirmed it. True or not, it seems like a valid relief to a major problem. What's your feeling?
Amen,
Reverend Colin
Just before World War I, there were a number of terrorist attacks on the
United States forces in the Philippines by; you guessed it, Muslim
extremists. So General Pershing captured 50 terrorists and had them
tied to posts execution style. He then had his men bring in two pigs
and slaughter them in front of the, now horrified, terrorists. Muslims
detest pork because they believe pigs are filthy animals. Some of them
simply refuse to eat it, while others won't even touch pigs at all, nor
any of their byproducts. To them, eating or touching a pig, its meat,
its blood, etc.,is to be instantly barred from paradise (and those 72
virgins) and doomed to hell.
The soldiers then soaked their bullets in the pigs blood, and proceeded
To execute 49 of the terrorists by firing squad. The soldiers then dug
a big hole, dumped in the terrorist's bodies and covered them in pig
blood, entrails, etc. They let the 50th man go. And for the next
forty-two years, there was not a single Muslim extremist attack anywhere
in the world!
posted on February 7, 2003 04:05:02 PM new
Just the rumor of British troops in India using lard as packing grease for ammunition stared riots and fierce fighting among India/Pakistan muslims.
posted on February 7, 2003 04:23:03 PM new
Extremeists need not be litteralists. Muslim friends of mine, although not extremists, will occasionally eat pork. It is more of trying to correctly follow what Muhammed taught, rather than a gut revulsion. That's what I get around "the other white meat" myself - even ham. I just don't like the taste of pork nor the smell of it cooking.
posted on February 7, 2003 05:40:26 PM new
BTW...hogs yield over 90 percent of their slaughter weight as edible product, far greater than any other animal. They are the ultimate meat machines..to misquote Homer Simpson "porkchops...m-m-m-mmmm"
posted on February 7, 2003 08:30:34 PM new
My grandfather would have Jews and Blacks to breakfast before they went out to his construction jobs back in the 1920's just to bug his snotty neighbors in Miami.
The one young Jewish fellow sat to the Southern
style breakfast with three kinds of pork and pointed at the ham steaks and said:
"Pass the breakfast Salmon there please."
With genetic engineering maybe they could alter the hoof to make it acceptable!
