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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 11:06 PM Apr 2016

Donald Trump Promotes Shooting Muslims With Bullets Dipped In Pig’s Blood, Gets An Ovation

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/04/29/donald-trump-promotes-shooting-muslims-with-bullets-dipped-in-pigs-blood-gets-an-ovation-video/

During a rally in California, GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump praised a bogus historical incident where Muslims were shot by bullets dipped in pig’s blood – to rapturous applause.

It appears that neither Donald Trump, nor the crowd in Costa Mesa, are aware that there is no evidence this historical incident actually happened. Given the campaign’s focus on rhetoric over fact to date, t’s unlikely anyone would care either. But for the record, Trump was praising the vile actions of U.S. General John Joseph Pershing. The story goes that the General cracked down on Islamic terrorism in the early 20th century with a single act of terror of his own. As Trump delights in telling the crowd, reciting it as if historical fact, the General dipped bullets in pigs blood, then shot 49 Muslims – letting the 50th off to act as a cautionary tale.

Trump’s point? That only the most brutal measures will make America safe from Islamic terrorism – that any and all means of persecution and punishment are justified. Even, apparently, mass murder. And the crowd went wild, erupting into applause – some breaking out into a standing ovation.

It’s not even the first time Trump has wheeled out the story either. Despite the fact that this complete and morbid fantasy was taken to pieces when just two months ago when he last road-tested it. Trump came back for more last night in California.


Islamic terrorism in the U.S. in the early 1900s?!
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Donald Trump Promotes Shooting Muslims With Bullets Dipped In Pig’s Blood, Gets An Ovation (Original Post) KamaAina Apr 2016 OP
I watched that earlier... Firebrand Gary Apr 2016 #1
It was supposedly in the Phillipines radical noodle Apr 2016 #2
And people think this guy has a shot in hell. joshcryer Apr 2016 #3
Could not be more vile..... nt AgadorSparticus Apr 2016 #4
Here's a link with the video of this scumbag's rhetoric: joshcryer Apr 2016 #5
The US was butchering Muslims in PI back then mwrguy Apr 2016 #6
The early 1900s was probably a reference to the Moro Rebellion in the Philipines NutmegYankee Apr 2016 #7
I say Angel Martin Apr 2016 #8
"Them" being Muslims or republicans? n/t pampango Apr 2016 #11
whoever idiotic superstition deludes n/t Angel Martin Apr 2016 #12
Shockingly despicable, irresponsible and inflammatory. Hortensis Apr 2016 #9
He'll make an interesting president. Katashi_itto Apr 2016 #10

Firebrand Gary

(5,044 posts)
1. I watched that earlier...
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 11:16 PM
Apr 2016

My mouth was wide open by what I was hearing-still shocking. This does in fact frighten me, for reasons not on the surface. What in the world does the rest of the world think of the US as a whole when those remarks are played for them?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. Shockingly despicable, irresponsible and inflammatory.
Sat Apr 30, 2016, 07:02 AM
Apr 2016

Could any man running for president literally be more stupid or ignorant?

Does anyone doubt that Islamist leaders around the planet have been chortling in delight at Trump's repeat of his February admiring example of how leaders do it "right"? Or that hundreds of millions of Muslims are horrified by him and some deeply offended and angered?

I believe this is one of many manifestations of the dysfunction of a full-blown clinical personality disorder. The man isn't insane, but he does not think the way normal people do.

For those who don't remember, btw, back in the 1800s Indian anti-British agitators extremely effectively encouraged a widespread belief that papers on cartridges Indian soldiers were required to us had been soaked in pig's fat, sparking a major rebellion against British rule. The West's deeply disgusting consumption of swine no doubt has been made the most of in many similarly useful agitations besides this and the Pershing incident.

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