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From: "CafeMojo" >
Newsgroups: alt.food.barbecue
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:55 AM
Subject: Fighting Terror with BBQ - For REAL!!!
> Hey there!
> Thought y'all would get a kick out of this!
> There's a lot of weird stuff in the news these days, but this one really
> caught my eye!!! Yes friends, it's looks as if pork has entered the war
on
> terror!
> No, I did not make this up! >
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~
> Muslim tradition holds that any Muslim who comes in contact with a pig
before
> dying will be denied access to heaven.
>
> It's Kosher: Bomb-sniffing pigs will help protect settlements
>
> Israeli police are considering using bags of pig lard in buses and other
> places to deter Muslim suicide bombers, Maariv reported today. The
proposal
> received the Jerusalem rabbinate's approval.
>
> The police's suggestion is based on the fact that strict Muslim tradition
holds
> that any Muslim who comes in contact with a pig before dying will be
denied
> access to heaven.
This is not at all a bizarre idea, at least if you look at it in an
historical context: I am surprised nobody mentioned this:
http://web.genie.it/utenti/i/inanna/...ompagnia-i.htm
In 1857 the use of animal fat in the cartridges provoked the rage in Hindu
soldiers, who thought tath cartridges had been made with the meat of cow,
and in the muslim soldiers, who thought it was of pig. In fact the tip of
the cartridges had to be torn with the teeth and no soldier wanted to
violate the alimentary prohibition of their own religion.
Also...
http://1911encyclopedia.org/I%5CIN%5CINDIAN_MUTINY.htm.
To this accumulation of inflammatory materials a spark was put jn 1857 by an
act of almost incredible folly on the part of the military authorities in
India. The introduction The d of the Mini rifle, with its greased
cartridges, was ~7Zges. accompanied by no consideration of the religious
prejudices of the Bengal sepoys, to whom, whether Hindus or Mahommedans, the
fat of cows and pigs was anathema. It was easy for agitators to persuade the
sepoys that the new cartridges were greased with the fat of animals sacred
to one creed or forbidden to another, and that the British government was
thus engaged in a deep-laid plot for forcing them to become Christians by
first making them outcasts from their own religions. The growth of
missionary enterprise in India lent color to this theory, which was
supported by the fact that no precau~ons hati been taken to grease the
Indian cartridges with a neutral fat, such as that of sheep and goats. The
researches of Mr G. W. Forrest in the Indian government records have shown
that the sepoys fears of defilement by biting the new cartridges had a
considerable foundation in fact. At a court-martial in 1857 Colonel Abbott,
inspector general of ordnance, gave evidence that the tallow might or might
not have contained the fat of cows. No attempt, in fact, had been made to
exclude the fat of cows and pigs, and apparently no one had realized that a
gross outrage was thus being perpetrated on the religious feelings of both
Hindu and Mahommedan sepoys. The lowcaste natives employed in the arsenals
knew what grease was actually being employed, and tatinted the Brahman
sepoys with the loss of caste that would follow their use of the new
cartridges. Refusals to accept the suspected cartridges were soon heard in
the Bengal army. The numerous agitators who bad their own reasons for
fomenting mutiny rose to the occasion, and in the first months of 1857 the
greater part of the Bengal presidency was seething with sedition, At this
time took place the mysterious distribution of chapatis, small cakes of
unleavened bread, which had previously been known in connection with the
mutiny at Vellore (1806). From village to village, from district to
district, through hill-land and lowland, the signalunexplained at the time,
inexplicable stillsped; and in village after village, in district after
district, the spreading of the signal was followed by the increased
excitement of the people.
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YOP...
Nicko