Saturday, January 23, 2010

The Liberals Attack Trijicon: Suppression of All Things Christian…

“Military religious extremism?”  Proselytizing? Offending muslims? To quote the Botox Bolshevik Nancy Pelosi, “Are you serious?”

How in the world is a tiny, obscure, hidden stamp that is difficult at best to recognize as a Bible verse “proselytizing?”  Now, if I take my gun equipped with high quality Trijicon optics, walk up to a muslim, point to the extremely small, nearly hidden  stamp that can’t be seen or read from more than a foot away, tell the muslim “This references a verse in the Bible.  This verse says you are going to Hell unless you convert to Christianity,” then that might be considered “proselytizing.”  Simply possessing something with a Biblical reference on it is NOT, I repeat, NOT proselytizing.  Next the whiny liberals will say that the “cross” hairs in a rifle scope are religious symbols and we have to take them away from our soldiers.  What idiots!


We are in these countries to HELP these people.  We as Americans go so far overboard not to OFFEND these people as to be ridiculous.  We won’t allow our service men and women to consume alcohol, even in moderation.  All the other countries with forces there allow their service members access to alcohol.  Some groups are even pushing for rules that would prohibit our service members from even POSSESSING a Bible for private use in their quarters while stationed in these muslim countries.  It’s even getting to the point that an aircrew can’t have a ham sandwich in their box lunch if they fly through muslim airspace for fear of offending them.  Bullcrap.

If these people want our help, and our generosity, then they will “turn the other cheek” to what we do in our own quarters, and on our own installations.  We can be “culturally sensitive” in our interactions with their citizens, but we can still be Americans with some measure of freedom on our own time on our own installations.  If the muslims in these countries aren’t willing to make even this small of a concession to receive our billions of dollars in aid, and our military protection, then we should leave their countries, take our military and our money, and leave them to their own devices with the understanding that a return to supporting and harboring terrorists or others enemies that threaten America will result in their certain destruction.  Sadly, our leaders don’t have the guts or the brains to make a decision like that.

I find it tragically funny how we let millions of muslims into America who turn right around and make demands that we not display our own religious symbols where muslims can see them.  They demand tolerance while they “proselytize” our citizens with their poisonous, cancerous religion, yet get offended if we simply wish to discuss our religion with them.  They demand that we let them build the phallic symbols on their mosques which represent the male domination of their culture and religion.  If we were to go to Saudi Arabia or any other muslim nation and demand the same thing, we would simply be stoned to death or imprisoned.

Muslims are like the democrats and liberals in this country and around the world who are pandering to them out of fear.  They so afraid of being proven wrong that they will not listen to any other view points, and simply shut down the debate.

So, Trijicon.  Bravo to you for incorporating your faith into your product, boo to you for caving to the “politically correct” censorship.  If our government truly wanted the BEST equipment for our servicemen and women, something like this completely inconsequential and overblown reference to something to do with Christianity wouldn’t stand in the way of providing the best to the best.  The fact that this has become such a big deal only illustrates that the left in the media and our spineless government aren’t truly concerned with what is best for our troops, and thus by extension not concerned about what is truly best for America.

CNSNews.com

Group That Alerted Media to Biblical Markings on Rifle Sights Wants Congress to Investigate ‘Military Religious Extremism’

Friday, January 22, 2010
By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor

In this handout photo provided by the Defense Department, taken March 25, 2009, a U.S. soldier shows an Iraqi police officer his M-4 carbine assault rifle at a post in Hayy, Iraq. Combat rifle sights used by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan carry references to Bible verses, stoking concerns about whether the inscriptions break a government rule that bars proselytizing by American troops. (AP Photo/Staff Sgt. Rasheen A. Douglas, Defense Department)

(CNSNews.com) – The advocacy group that brought worldwide attention to the fact that an American company has been stamping biblical references on combat rifle sights used by the U.S. military said Thursday it hoped the damage done was not “beyond repair.” (Damage?  What damage?)

Trijicon’s “outrageous practice” of stamping Christian references on rifle scopes used by the U.S. military “was an unconstitutional disgrace of the highest magnitude to our military and an action that clearly gave additional incentive and emboldenment to recruiters for our nation’s enemies,” Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) head Mikey Weinstein said, after Trijicon Inc. announced it would now stop the practice.  (This is liberal and lawyer speak designed to whip up a frenzy where none exists.  Much boohoo about nothing.)

“It is nothing short of a vile national security threat that, despite our nation’s efforts to convince the Muslim world we are not pursuing a holy war against them, our military and its contractors time again resort to unlawful fundamentalist evangelical Christian practices, even on the battlefield,” Weinstein said in a message posted on the MRFF Web site.  (The voice and view point of an ANTI-CHRISTIAN.  “Vile national security threat?”  Really?  You’re an idiot.  The REAL threat is from the muslims eating away our country and military from the inside like a cancer.  Ft. Hood and Nadal Hassan?  Little Rock recruiting center shooting?  Ft. Dix plot?  Muslims running down innocent people in cars and SUV’s screaming ‘allah akbar’?  Ring a bell, you retard?  If we are indeed at war with terrorists, you probably think we shouldn’t offend them before we kill them.)

MRFF, a watchdog group that describes itself as an advocate of “the free exercise of religious freedom in the military,” (except Christianity) says on its Web site that it “brought to light” the existence of “the secret ‘Jesus’ Bible codes.”

It is taking credit for breaking the story, which ABC News first reported on Monday, and it is calling for a congressional investigation: “We can now only hope that the United States Congress and The Pentagon will comprehensively investigate how this catastrophe and countless other examples of military religious extremism infiltrates every branch of our honorable armed services.”  (They only consider it “religious extremism” if it involves Christianity and the Bible.)

Before the MRFF-initiated “ABC News investigation,” Trijicon had included the biblical references alongside other markings on its products for more than two decades, a practice it ascribed in a statement this week to “our faith and our belief in service to our country.”

Thanks to the MRFF, the obscure sets of numbers and letters like 2COR4:6 and JN8:12 are now widely known to refer to New Testament verses.

The news reports prompted governments as far away as Australia and New Zealand – whose forces in Afghanistan also use the scopes – to consider their options.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, (unindicted co-conspirator in the 9/11 attacks, shunned by the FBI for their support of terrorist organizations…) meanwhile, called the presence of the markings “a potential recruiting tool for anti-American forces” and a Muslim Public Affairs Council official said they provided “propaganda ammo to extremists who claim there is a ‘Crusader war against Islam’ by the United States.”  (They would say this regardless.  Their goal is to intimidate us into inaction.)

According to the U.S. Central Command, the Trijicon rifle scopes were bought in 2005 for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps for use in Iraq and Afghanistan. It said in a statement it “only became aware of these codes in the past several days.”

“The codes on the scopes are contrary to U.S. Central Command guidance,” CentCom commander Gen. David Petraeus said Thursday.  (Cowardly…)

“Our mission is to protect the population we’re serving and establish conditions for security, stability, and development, and we strive to do that while remaining sensitive to the cultural and religious norms of the populace we are supporting.  (Sensitivity is one thing, but TOTALLY erasing your own religion and culture are something else.  Refer to my comments above…)

“We deeply respect the cultures of the host nations and our coalition partners in the Central Command Area of Responsibility,” he said.  (Politically correct, canned statements of cowards.)

Trijicon on Thursday issued a statement saying it had agreed to stop putting references to scripture on products manufactured for the U.S. military, and would also provide modification kits to enable the military to remove the markings on products already deployed.  (Spineless move.  If you produce the best product, they will buy it.  Oh, sorry.  I forgot.  This is the U.S. government we’re talking about.  Disregard.)

In response to concerns raised by the Department of Defense, Trijicon, Inc. initiated this action to ensure the war-time production needs of the troops are met as quickly as possible.

“Trijicon has proudly served the U.S. military for more than two decades, and our decision to offer to voluntarily remove these references is both prudent and appropriate,” said company president Stephen Bindon.

“Trijicon’s more than 250 American workers are proud and humbled to provide critical hardware for our nation’s brave service men and women and we look forward to working with the Department of Defense to ensure our immediate solutions are in compliance with the military’s standards requirements.”




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