How British stopped Islamic Terromism many, many years ago -- and it worked!

koran, informed source on religion who is anonymous

[topher]

In the Koran, it is written that if an Islamic believer dies, and his body is mingled with the flesh of pigs, he does not get the 72 Virgins. (And I guess he goes to hell.)

When the British controlled the Middle East, they started using it to stop the killing of British soldiers/citizens.

They would mix the remains of the terrorist with ground up pig flesh (I believe it was usually the ashes or some other means).

Maybe some freeper can find more information on this somewhere.

But according to my source, it stopped Terrorism, and it is a subject today because one country having trouble with Moslems is buying herds of pigs (supposedly for that reason).

[topher]

I guess this is a morality issue. And if the US were to start using it, it might cause even more trouble (add fuel to any hatreds that are now out there towards Americans/Europeans.

[xrp]

I've read some things stating that General Pershing did this to the Moro Muslims in the Philippines about 100 years ago. It calmed them down for awhile.

[CHICAGOFARMER]

I've read some things stating that General Pershing did this to the Moro Muslims in the Philippines about 100 years ago. It calmed them down for awhile.

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1000 dollars says this is urban leauge.

[sticker]

But would it be fair to the spirit of the pig?

[xrp]

I just looked it up and the status of it is undetermined.

[BigLittle]

Invest in Pork Bellies and grind the pigs up as soon as we get out hands on them. This will surely draw the media to cover the events, then we'll see how the Al Jazeera web site covers the story.

[Mark17]

it might cause even more trouble (add fuel to any hatreds that are now out there towards Americans/Europeans.

They already hate us. Could it get much worse?

[pointsal]

Heck...I have a porker or two that will qualify for old fashioned contamination purposes....

[aculeus]

Here's what we should do:

Go to a country where it is possibe to buy corpses of dark skinned youngish males who died of natural causes. Bangladesh or India, for example. Pay the relatives handsomely for the bodies.

Take the bodies to a pig farm. Have actors dressed as American soldiers toss the corpses to the pigs. Video tape the ensuing feeding frenzies. The completed video should show several "feedings".

Show the video tape to captured moslem prisoners ... without uttering a single threatening word.

A dead human fed to a pig actually becomes part of the pig. A much more frightening prospect than mere burial in pig skin.

[TBall]

I've been practicing and can hit any target within 20 feet with a non-fatty strip of bacon. When traveling never forget to put a shaker of Bacon Bits in the pocket. Like a bucket of water, solutions can be simple.

[Held_to_Ransom]

Let me get this right. You don't know any Moslems, you don't speak their language, you don't know their religion, but you know that trick they fell for 100 years ago will stop them?

Well, it didn't stop the 9/11 bombers. They just rationalized their way around the evils of America so they could have their meetings in strip joints where no one would suspect they were Moslem terrorists. So, based on that, you think they will fall for this.


Uh, yeah, ok. sure.

Remember this too. That stuff may have worked in the short run to help Britain keep her colonial interests at the time, but where are those colonial interests today?

[ETERNAL WARMING]

This would have been my opening move. PC will be the death of us.

[ChefKeith]

Don't know about Pershing, however it was the same basic tactics used in the Indo-China War and it DID work.

[U S Army EOD]

This may or may not be an urban legend as far as how the remains were treated. But, it is a fact the British used to use Muslem police in Hindu neighborhoods and Hindu police in Muslem neighborhoods. This worked pretty well but really pissed a lot of people off. I know the Hindus use to throw pig grease on the muslems to break up demonstrations.

Maybe we should pigskin covers on the controls of all aircraft.

[bagman]

This tactic as it was supposed to have been applied in the Philipines was the subject of discussion on the H-WAR discussion group (for military officers, academic military historians, and those of us who are interested in military history) and the consensus was that it was an urban myth.

Besides, I didn't know that many Muslims were combatants in the Indo-China War (just when and where was the Indo-China War fought?).

[mikegi]

But according to my source, it stopped Terrorism, and it is a subject today because one country having trouble with Moslems is buying herds of pigs (supposedly for that reason).

Yeah, sure. Is anyone on FR naive enough to truly believe that pig-fat-dipped bullets has or would deter Muslim terrorists??? This whole pig fat stuff on FR is getting old, older than "hugh" and "series".

You know how we stopped the muslim guerrillas in the Philippines? It wasn't silly pig fat/flesh/etc threats. We slaughtered them. We burned down villages that supported them. We took no prisoners. It was a brutal, ugly war.

We also lost several thousand soldiers in the process. This was against an enemy with far less sophisticated weapons than our enemies have today.

[boris]

"I just looked it up and the status of it is undetermined."

But it a heck of a good idea.

--Boris

[boris]

"Yeah, sure. Is anyone on FR naive enough to truly believe that pig-fat-dipped bullets has or would deter Muslim terrorists??? This whole pig fat stuff on FR is getting old, older than "hugh" and "series"."

I think that saturating Mecca with the blood of pigs would get their attention.

One megaton devices on all Arab capitals.

--Boris