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Jan 21, 2010

NZ to remove Bible citations

WELLINGTON (New Zealand) - NEW Zealand said Thursday that Biblical citations inscribed on US-manufactured weapon sights used by New Zealand's troops in Afghanistan will be removed, saying they are inappropriate and could stoke religious tensions. The inscriptions on products from defense contractor Trijicon of Wixom, Michigan, came to light this week in the US where Army officials said Tuesday they would investigate whether the gun sights - also used by US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq - violate US procurement laws. Australia also said Thursday its military used the sights and was now assessing what to do.

Trijicon said it has had such inscriptions on its products for three decades and has never received complaints about them before. The inscriptions, which don't include actual text from the Bible, refer numerically to passages from the book. New Zealand defense force spokesman Maj. Kristian Dunne said that Trijicon would be instructed to remove the inscriptions from further orders of the gun sights for New Zealand and that the letters would be removed from gun sights already in use by troops. 'The inscriptions... put us in a difficult situation. We were unaware of it and we're unhappy that the manufacturer didn't give us any indication that these were on there,' Dunne said. 'We deem them to be inappropriate.' -- AP

[NeroASERCH]

yellow people: WELLINGTON (New Zealand) - NEW Zealand said Thursday that Biblical citations inscribed on US-manufactured weapon sights used by New Zealand's troops in Afghanistan will be removed, saying they are inappropriate and could stoke religious tensions. Funny, the Pope or other Christian Denominations NEVER made a FUSS to force them NOT to use the Biblical citations unlike one country who claim exclusive rights to 'ALLAH'.

Maybe the NZ army must ensure that the bullets used must also be certified 'HALAL' so as NOT to stoke religious tensions.

All bullets used by Coalition forces should have the fine print: certified 100% HALAL- may ALLAH(GOD)speed you to your 72 Virgins

[radikal]

The Great Indian Mutiny of 1857 was caused by the new gun cartridges which allegedly had a casing made of cow and pig fat, which had to be bitten off by mouth. The cow being sacred to Hindus, and pig haram to Muslims, soldiers refused to use them.

[Lillie_Steins]

The Great Indian Mutiny of 1857 was caused by the new gun cartridges which allegedly had a casing made of cow and pig fat, which had to be bitten off by mouth. The cow being sacred to Hindus, and pig haram to Muslims, soldiers refused to use them.

Why double standard? Why left out your forefather, the JEWS?

[Beerinkol]

Any bro got any pics of what these inscriptions are?