Crosshairs for Jesus

Here's a follow-up on Fixer's post:

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This is a mortal insult to Muslims and endangers our troops. Trijicon needs to knock off the cheap shit and work for free for a while until every last one of the scopes already in the field is replaced.

Think that'll happen?

Update:

ABC News

U.S. military rules specifically prohibit the proselytizing of any religion in Iraq or Afghanistan and were drawn up in order to prevent criticism that the U.S. was embarked on a religious "Crusade" in its war against al Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents.

[...] Tom Munson, director of sales and marketing for Trijicon, which is based in Wixom, Michigan, said the inscriptions "have always been there" and said there was nothing wrong or illegal with adding them. Munson said the issue was being raised by a group that is "not Christian." [...]

"It's wrong, it violates the Constitution, it violates a number of federal laws," said Michael "Mikey" Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an advocacy group that seeks to preserve the separation of church and state in the military.

"It allows the Mujahedeen, the Taliban, al Qaeda and the insurrectionists and jihadists to claim they're being shot by Jesus rifles," he said.

"This is probably the best example of violation of the separation of church and state in this country," said Weinstein. "It's literally pushing fundamentalist Christianity at the point of a gun against the people that we're fighting. [...]"

I'm all for hollerin' "Allah sucks donkey dicks!" to get 'em to stick their heads up, but this is just wrong.

I wonder if the people who write the checks on our money to pay these fundie idiots their millions are going to do anything about it?

Update II:

Raw Story

Air Force official: Bible code on rifle scopes just like ‘God’ on US money

Bullshit. 'God' is generic. References to passages in a fictional work, read by few and believed by fewer in one particular religion, and then issued to troops who are fighting against proponents of another religion who have their own book of fiction, many of whom think this is a religious war, makes this a religious war on our side as well which it is not but some morons would like it to be. Worse, we're issuing it to our "allies" of the other religion. I wouldn't blame them for turning those weapons on our guys. Thanks Trijicon, you fucking idiots.

The Air Force is kinda famous for being taken over by the religious right, perhaps in self-defense after Fixer's service...(wink)

Interesting tidbit: The 'Air Force official' is Major John Redfield. Go see what 'Redfield', a company started in 1909 by another John Redfield, makes. And no, I don't believe in coincidences, at least not like that one.