WWJK: Who would Jesus Kill - Military supplier adds bible references to rifle sights

[piercehawkeye45]

You really missed the point.

[classicman]

I think a big deal is being made of it. This isn't something new, its been like this for many years.

I'm more interested in other issues - this doesn't even make it onto the list of real concerns I have.

[piercehawkeye45]

You need to realize that this isn't about what any American thinks. It is about what Muslims in countries like Iraq or Afghanistan think. Every since the "war on terror" began, the United States has worked to differentiate it from a "war against Islam" for very obvious reason.

Who cares if someone gets offended? What if that offended person decides that they will join a terrorist group to defend their religion? What if that offended person will refuse to help US forces because they feel the US is attacking their religion?

Once again, this is about image. In Afghanistan, we are working extremely hard to establish and maintain good relations with the local population, but if they feel that our presence there is religious based, all of that will be ruined. The passages were taken off were a reason. And that reason is that those hurt US forces establish and maintain strategic relations with the Islamic population.

[lookout123]

They should be more concerned about why the crosshairs are on them rather than what is etched into the scope.

[piercehawkeye45]

The entire Islamic population? The entire point of taking off the passages off is to tell the majority of the Islamic population that the cross hairs aren't on them.

The actual passages is a non-issue. But since the story blew up, the US military need to cover their asses. That's what they did.

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

The entire Islamic population? The entire point of taking off the passages off is to tell the majority of the Islamic population that the cross hairs aren't on them.

The actual passages is a non-issue. But since the story blew up, the US military need to cover their asses. That's what they did.

Petraeus got it.

The Cellar generals still dont get it.

[Undertoad]

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jesus-...ory?id=9618791

Trijicon, the gunsight maker that has imprinted Bible verse numbers on its scopes, has announced that it will no longer imprint the verses on the sides of scopes intended for the U.S. military, and will also provide clients with the kits to remove the Bible verse numbers from existing scopes.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

More than one. Heck, you can use the whole Song of Solomon as a stroke book. Really.

Now likening somebody's tummy to a heap of wheat, okay, that's a little out there in simile land for me... but no one could say the Song of Solomon was the writing of a eunuch. It was written by somebody who could spooge.

Didn't i already say that?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Could be -- I just wanted to say it too. "In my own inimitable... idiom."

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Nope. I have to highlight it to see anything's there. Sometimes if I see a gap in a post I highlight just to check if I'm missing anything :P

Same here, I've mentioned before it's annoying.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

The actual passages is a non-issue. But since the story blew up, the US military need to cover their asses. That's what they did.

I agree.

Originally Posted by classicman

I agree.

It is not just about covering their asses.

It is also a recognition of perceptions...and as was also noted by piercehawkeye...about how it might be perceived by Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan...and understanding the need to be a bit sensitive to those perceptions.

Originally Posted by lookout123

I'm sure that not every single person who is upset by this issue wears panties. But they should.

Trying to picture General Petraeus in panties.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Redux

It is not just about covering their asses.

It is also a recognition of perceptions...and as was also noted by piercehawkeye...about how it might be perceived by Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan...and understanding the need to be a bit sensitive to those perceptions.

Speaking of perceptions, Mike Yon mentioned in Iraq the locals thought we would never leave because some outfits built, or moved into existing, buildings.
In Afghanistan, the locals feel we're not going to stay, and protect them from the Taliban, because we're living in tents and not building structures.
The local commanders have to be aware of these perceptions, they can win or lose the war.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

yeah, but they could be used for checking out the showers of the opposite sex.

Originally Posted by Pico and ME

Hee Hee...is there an appropriate bible verse for that?

Yes. Verse 2.

Originally Posted by The same source Trijicon uses

David and Bathsheba
1 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 3 And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, "Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"

[xoxoxoBruce]

Scoping her out, was he?