US Marines Warned: Act More Muslim, Don’t Spit Towards Mecca

But wait, that’s not all.  They’re no longer permitted to urinate facing towards Mecca, either.  And it doesn’t matter which way the wind is blowing.  Unfortunately, Karzai still isn’t impressed.  I guess the only upside to this ridiculous politically correct brainlessness is the likelihood that a Muslim extremist or two are having difficulty strapping up their suicide vests or burying their IEDs from all the laughter …

By Diana West – “Uncle Sam is getting a little weird. Make that a lot weird. Having dumped hundreds of billions of dollars into a sinkhole called Afghanistan — populated by misogynistic, pederastic, tribalistic and religiously supremacist primitives — to no avail, he has hit on a new plan for winning those ever-elusive Afghan ‘hearts and minds.’

Uncle Sam has decided that the answer lies in the latrine with the U.S. Marine Corps. No kidding. When nature calls, Uncle Sam has decided he wants every U.S. Marine equipped with a map and compass, or some other way of knowing direction. This is to ensure that no U.S. Marine in Afghanistan urinates in the direction of Mecca ever again.

Now, there’s a winning strategy.

It’s still OK, of course, to spread baksheesh (payola) indiscriminately, chase jihadis into twisting mountain gorges, clear any road laced with improvised explosives – blow up, even, and bleed all over the place. Just make sure your sense of direction is sharp when it really counts.

Take spitting. According to an article in the North County Times, the word is: Ix-nay on itting-spay toward ecca-May, guys. If there’s a pinch between teeth and gum while you’re hiding out in a cold valley, figure out where Mecca is (2,000 miles away) before letting anything out of your mouth. Oh, and when it’s time to catch some shut-eye ‘when sharing a base with Afghan army troops’ – if you can sleep, given the frightening odds an Afghan National Army soldier might turn his gun on you – don’t, whatever you do, let your combat boots point toward you-know-where.” Read more.

The Problem With Islam – “It is difficult for Americans to comprehend the challenge to Western civilization from Islam and Islamist ideology. While our political leaders tell us constantly that we are not at war with Islam, the Obama administration will not acknowledge the fact that we are at war with Islamist ideology. In a slim new volume of four essays, ‘Islam in our Midst: the Challenge to our Christian Heritage,’ Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo examines the roots of Islamist ideology and finds little difference between them and Islam itself as it is currently preached in the Muslim mainstream. And therein lies the problem with Islam. ‘Politically correct approaches often present a sanitized view of Islam, ignoring its terrorist forms,’ Sookhdeo writes. The Obama administration has conscientiously excised words such as ‘Islamic terrorism,’ ‘Islamist terrorism’ and ‘jihad’ from the lexicon of its national security doctrine, ‘because they are deemed to anger Muslims and increase tensions with the wider Muslim world,’ Sookhdeo notes. This has only encouraged the Islamists…” Read more.

Flashback: White House Overlooks Christian Persecution While Pandering to Islam – “The Obama administration has been obsessed with Muslim outreach and recently tried to mend fences with the Jewish community. Given the state of the world, however, the White House ought to be focused on helping the world’s oppressed Christians. The United States has been wary to intervene in matters affecting Christians in the Middle East for fear of validating terrorist narratives that the West is engaged in a new crusade against Islam. The result of this passive policy has been to allow Islamic extremists increasingly to dominate the debate, often with tragic consequences.” Read more.