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“Crusader” Cash
Trijicon, maker of exception scopes for military and civilian use, has come under fire for inscriptions which appear on the company’s hardware. The inscriptions reference bible passages, often regarding Christ. The Muslim Public Affairs Council wants the inscriptions removed and no further shipments made to the U.S. military of hardware containing references to scripture. MPAC said the references “feed into the violent extremists’ narrative that the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are a ‘crusade against Islam.’”
If references to God are unacceptable on military hardware, then the same argument can be made against sending U.S. Treasury notes to Muslim nations. Shall we stop sending bills with references to God on them to Afghanistan? Iraq? Think before you complain, MPAC.
January 22nd, 2010 at 1:22 pm
I think it’s absurd that the MPAC would complain about this offending the Muslims, while leaving aside that the weapons upon which the offensive verses appear will be used to kill Muslims (which apparently isn’t offensive at all). The one to really be upset with, I would think, is General Petraeus, who huffed and puffed about how insensitive it all was. The verse references are “a big concern,” “a perception problem,” and “disturbing.” What’s offensive to me is a United States general obsequiously groveling so as to appear sensitive to the Diverse One and thereby further ingratiate himself to Him. It’s as if they confiscated Bibles and ordered them burned because they violated antiChristian anti-proselytization rules we voluntarily agreed to abide by when we sent troops over there. Oh, wait. They did that, too.
I don’t know if I’d draw the comparison to Federal Reserve notes, though. They just say “In God We Trust,” which the members of the religion of Submission don’t have a problem with, and we know there’s not a snowball’s chance in Kuwait that our politicians will stop the flow of dollars to that region.