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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald 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/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 campaigns focus on rhetoric over fact to date, ts 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.
Trumps 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.
Its 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?!
Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)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?
radical noodle
(7,990 posts)joshcryer
(62,265 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)joshcryer
(62,265 posts)mwrguy
(3,245 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,178 posts)Angel Martin
(942 posts)use their idiotic superstitions against them.
pampango
(24,692 posts)Angel Martin
(942 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)He will do things to America!