U.S. soldier uses Quran for target practice!
Posted on: May 18, 2008 - 4:14pm
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U.S. soldier uses Quran for target practice!
U.S. soldier uses Quran for target practice; Military apologizes!
Now that's the funniest thing I have ever heard (well, not the apology part). Now if they would only include a christian bible next time they have target practice...that would be even funnier. 
DOH! Too late...somebody beat me to it!
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Shooting books is illegal where?
Shooting a book= criminal
Killing people for allah=good
Show someone whose life was tangibly affected by this act.
Not this time he didn't.
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
Argument from Sadism: Theist presents argument in a wall of text with no punctuation and wrong spelling. Atheist cannot read and is forced to concede.
The only thing that pisses me off about this story is they never mention how well the soldier did. I know US military snipers can be scary accurate, so lets show 'em off, k?
"Anyone can repress a woman, but you need 'dictated' scriptures to feel you're really right in repressing her. In the same way, homophobes thrive everywhere. But you must feel you've got scripture on your side to come up with the tedious 'Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve' style arguments instead of just recognising that some people are different." - Douglas Murray
OMG...you are right!
EXCELLENT point!
However US snipers are training with the Princes Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry battle Group, mainly for a few reasons, one, 4 canadians army teams have won the sniper competition in recent years at the fort benning sniping competition in Georgia. With that said, Canadian snipers have also had the highest long range kill count in Afghanistan, with some kills becoming new records, the longest kill at 2.4 kilometers (in military combat that is) at a driver of an enemy supply truck. Since the Shah-i-Kot Valley fight in which canuck soliders saved american solders from heavy fire from the enemy as soon as they entered the valley, the canadians snipers had the highest confirmed kills in that battle....and it was only 6 of them. Now the US send their top snipers to train with the Canucks. Hey we might be under manned, not have nearly the combat weapons or the armour.....or hell we don't even have the proper things for our military boys, but when they go to fight, they fight well. Canada has never lost a war that it has been involved in....yet.
"Anyone can repress a woman, but you need 'dictated' scriptures to feel you're really right in repressing her. In the same way, homophobes thrive everywhere. But you must feel you've got scripture on your side to come up with the tedious 'Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve' style arguments instead of just recognising that some people are different." - Douglas Murray
We can't shoot the quran as it is a huge PC mess for our country and ummm yeah um it's a yeah a big big problem for our guys to shoot the damn thing (you know how many 2-4's it would take to calm those mulism back here down) yeah.....so I think they will just stick to shooting enemy fighters
Or empty beer cans, which ever they can find first.
After these things happen, I love it when they ask 'Duh, why do Muslims hate us??'
Just to recap: My answer to the other thread, "Are Americans Becoming Assholes" was something like, "Have we ever been anything else?"
I think it's stupid and silly to get upset about people shooting a book. I think Islam is stupid. However, they have bombs and short tempers.
Poking bears is also stupid.
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Christians have short tempers too. But the reason they are not as bloody as Islam is that they have had 200 years of secular government keeping them at bay. They mistake the age of Enlightenment as being authored by Jesus.
But, it is typical of our "melting pot" society. Only a moron would actually think that a "Japanese Stake House" was authentic. Just like we bastardized Mexican food with Taco Bell.
Christian culture is good at one thing. The same thing Islamic culture is good at. They are both good at marketing. They are both lousy at introspection.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Very good observation.
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I was trying to do a little research to find the statistics for literacy of Islamic people. It looks as though somewhere between 50 - 80 % of Muslims are illiterate. Interesting dichotomy...
Out of curiosity, does anyone have some correlation data between literacy and war? I'm not even sure what I'm looking for. I'm just wondering if anyone's ever looked at the effect of literacy on peacefulness as a country.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
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I brought up this very issue on a local message board hoping some would be able to reason, but of course, when your beer goggles involve the cross all bets are off.
There is a simple reason this guy did what he did. It would be the same if someone had repeatedly raped his sister in front of him. PTSD!
Of course it wasn't because all Muslims hate him. It was because he saw terrible things and was venting.
However, people conflate this to him being wrongfully accused. And others claim it as a matter of free speech?
It is about free speech in the sense that, in a utopia, muslims would merely be offendeded without making threats.
BUT, this goes beyond religion and cuts to the core of who you would want to be doing ANY JOB in this mental state.
We have a person who fired a weapon without proper protocal or authorization, and did so in a moment of passion. If this were a police officer shooting an unarmed civilian because they were black we would be up in arms.
The problem was not that he desicrated a Koran. The problem is that his emotions override is ability to do his job. If he were merely writing a criticism of Isam, or making a cartoon like the Danish Cartoonist, that would be different.
He was lashing out at his environment. He was subject to things you and I hope to never see in our lifetime. What he does not understand is that placing a label to blame is easy compared to accepting that he was put in a horrible position in the first place.
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I read somewhere, many years ago, that there is a correlation between war and how many men under the age of 25 there are in a country (testosterone-related). I will have to find that. I think it was in a book...
I don't have it handy, but at one point I had some figures related to this. They're foggy at best. Illiteracy as a causative agent in starting wars, unfortunately (IMHO), doesn't really have any evidence at this point. Both the Greeks and Romans were incredibly literate civilizations, and they were thrusting swords into people's faces day and night (Sparta, which was not built on literacy like Athens, was allegedly more aggressive - but that had far more to do with the overall philosophy of Spartan culture than their ability to read). The Germans also had high literacy rates, Israelis have high literacy rates, Russians during the end of the tsarist period had not half bad literacy rates...
Japan is the hallmark example in my mind. Go check the stats. The literacy rates throughout that nation's history have been enormously high - and it's been an absolute hotbed for warfare regardless.
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February 27, 1940
Yeah, it's hilarious--except for the fact that it fuels insurgency and subsequently costs more foreign and domestic lives.
Other than that, it's a bona fide hoot.
i just noticed its the english version o_O
What is the correct spelling of this? I wouldn't speak ill of any soldier over there until I spent time in his/her shoes. Do these service members even have any rights while they are abroad?
Speaking from similair experience... Nope
What Would Kharn Do?
Should US snipers be admitting shortsightedness?
I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
The pictures of a bible btw.As Ent said in the first post.
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
Argument from Sadism: Theist presents argument in a wall of text with no punctuation and wrong spelling. Atheist cannot read and is forced to concede.
Quran, Koran, Alcoran, and Al-Quran are all acceptable spellings.
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While never one to pass a chance to knock religion I think you will find literacy rates are hardly that high in Western armies.
In the British army 50% of recruits at 18 have a reading age of <12
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6418683.stm
and I someone doubt that is any different in the American army/Canadian/Australian armies etc .
While of course officers are generally at least of average intelligence, people who take up arms voluntarily (conscription is obviously different) are generally not in the highest ranks of human IQ.
The go to war and get killed /have your legs blown of etc. tends to put a lot of people off
Probably wishing I had spell /grammar checked this better but I'm not claiming to be Shakespeare either
A 2.4 kilometer shot is a looooong way for a normal thirty caliber ( NATO .308 ) sniper rifle. Do you know any particulars about what specific weapon was used and more importantly, what cartridge it fired ? Most thirty caliber rifle projectiles will have lost enough of their original velocity to seriously effect the probability of hitting a small, man-sized target at such a great distance. Maybe a fifty caliber anti -material rifle ?
ps, congrats to the Canadian snipers for performing so well.