1787-1776=11 years to the drastic change

The problem is that fanaticism is a graduated scale from frothing at the mouth to ultimate serenity. Actions such as an especially heavy handed attack, poor treatment of prisoners, invasion of territory, etc. will move the bar that separates those who take action from those who don't. That's how martyrs work.

Once in U.S. history an episode of Islamic terrorism was very quickly stopped. It happened in the Philippines about 1911, when Gen. John J. Pershing was in command of the garrison. There had been numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, so "Black Jack" told his boys to catch the perps and teach them a lesson.

Forced to dig their own graves, the terrorists were all tied to posts, execution style. The U.S. soldiers then brought in pigs and slaughtered them, rubbing their bullets in the blood and fat. Thus, the terrorists were terrorized; they saw that they would be contaminated with hogs' blood. This would mean that they could not enter Heaven, even if they died as terrorist martyrs.

All but one was shot, their bodies dumped into the grave, and the hog guts dumped atop the bodies. The lone survivor was allowed to escape back to the terrorist camp and tell his brethren what happened to the others. This brought a stop to terrorism in the Philippines for the next 50 years.

Breakthechain.org says hogwash.
Snopes says undetermined
Netlore Archive says no.
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Well said, Hobbs; we need a stronger spin campaign in this general direction. The Muslim brothers also need reminders (as many as necessary, and 1.3 billion reminders should convince even the most mental-blocked of blockheads) that the Jews aren't going to tamely lie down to fulfill any revanchist-genocidal fantasies on anybody's part. The "what we've taken is forever ours" noise bandied about in Muslim extremist circles isn't supported in the history of Islam in any event: they had Iberia for seven centuries, give or take, and they haven't got that peninsula now. The Ottoman Empire tried for Vienna, with a record of considerable success, and they broke at Vienna's walls. The Ottoman wave receded then, and has receded more since. Then of course there's the Mehmet-come-lately nature of their claim to Jerusalem as a city holy to them. I'm not contemptuous of this -- but they are third in line and this should be acknowledged by all fair thinkers.

Sure we can use a stronger spin campaign. Use their own fears and beliefs on themselves. My point, however, is that there is such anti-Americanism in the Arab nations, that any information that appears to be generated by us will be recieved as lies. Even if the info comes from other sources. Most of the people who are tired of the death and distruction are looking for someone to blame..that's us. One of the things that might be successful is to start quoting the quran (sp?) and placing it out on the local radio/tv airwaves. Start placing the passages that the terroists are using to justify their distruction back into context. I doubt this will work. You believe what you want to believe if you have you mind set in that direction, no matter what you see or hear.

That's one way to do it.

http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/20...hthreats.shtml

I'm not saying, I'm just saying.