RE: Pork-laced bullets sending Muslims straight to Hell
June 22, 2013 at 10:30 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2013 at 10:30 pm by popeyespappy.)
(June 22, 2013 at 3:10 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(June 22, 2013 at 12:28 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Using pork based WMD’s against Muslims is an urban legend attributed to General Black “Jack” Pershing with roots in the insurrection in the Moros province of the Philippines against American control in the 1909-1913 timeframe. While there is no empirical evidence Muslim insurrectionists were shot with bullets dipped in the fat of pigs, then buried face down covered in pig entrails as once claimed by former senator Bob Graham (D-FL), it is a story many historians refuse to say has no basis in truth.
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pershing.asp
This is an entirely different story. And here's the official website of the guys making it.
I realize that Rev. Just trying shed some light on the origins of the shot em with pork bullets mentality in American folk lore. It goes back a long time.
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