This gives a whole new meaning to “Kill a Commy an infidel for Christ.”
Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found.
The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers. The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army.
U.S. military rules specifically prohibit the proselytizing of any religion in Iraq or Afghanistan and were drawn up in order to prevent criticism that the U.S. was embarked on a religious “Crusade” in its war against al Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents.
“G** forbid we offend people before we shoot them,” growls Armed Liberal. Yes, and God forbid we should be so disrespectful as to spell out the word God while opining about killing people literally in God’s name.
A.L. does get over his snit sufficiently to acknowledge the problem with confirming the Al Qaeda and Taliban narrative that the United States is engaged in a war against Islam (emphasis in original):
I really will hate to see some kind of fire drill resulting from this that will put our troops at risk. And I’ll say that acknowledging that the real reason I’m annoyed at Trijicon (and the reason I may have just switched my purchase decision on an optic for my M1A to Aimpoint) is that by doing this, they have put US troops at risk. There’s no good answer here, except to give a solid attention slap to the procurement officers who had to know about this and let it pass.
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