# Is wrapping dead Islamic terrorists in pigskin and lard a good deterrent? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 3, 2002, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-wrapping-dead-islamic-terrorists-in-pigskin-and-lard-a-good-deterrent/135074 "2002-11-03T06:14:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-wrapping-dead-islamic-terrorists-in-pigskin-and-lard-a-good-deterrent/135074/61 "2002-11-05T14:45:24Z")
Izzy: And exactly where I have been misinformed. There are those in Israel today who see it as a religious duty to interfere with ambulances on the Sabbath. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-wrapping-dead-islamic-terrorists-in-pigskin-and-lard-a-good-deterrent/135074/62 "2002-11-05T14:53:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by IzzyR \* > **Give it a rest.** Oh, right. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-wrapping-dead-islamic-terrorists-in-pigskin-and-lard-a-good-deterrent/135074/63 "2002-11-05T14:56:34Z")
The thing you seem to be missing is how this will stop them. What do you think would stop a God fearing American soldiers fighting other than orders. These terrorists are fighting ITO a just fight. They are not flying planes into buildings, strapping explosives to themselves and going on suicide missions for the fun of it. You and I may view them with distaste and despair but that will not change how they view their cause. Something as stupid as the idea in the OP will not make them stop IMO. It will just make them angrier. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-wrapping-dead-islamic-terrorists-in-pigskin-and-lard-a-good-deterrent/135074/64 "2002-11-05T15:03:39Z")
I can’t cite any Islamic doctrine, but will echo the feeling of previous posters that doing ANYTHING which may be deemed as desecrating bodies would be an absolutely unspeakable bad idea. IMO the reason the Chechens who took over the Moscow theater did what they did is that they have been disrespected in the most insanely fundamental ways. There will be no peace in Chechnya/Russia without mutual respect, something which has been sorely lacking for a very long time (about 300 years!). All the Russian military/gov’t would accomplish by such an act would be to galvanize existing hatred among the remaining nonviolent portion of the Chechen people. ---
**Author:** ![IzzyR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@IzzyR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IzzyR)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-wrapping-dead-islamic-terrorists-in-pigskin-and-lard-a-good-deterrent/135074/65 "2002-11-05T15:18:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Monty \* > And exactly where I have been misinformed. There are those in Israel today who see it as a religious duty to interfere with ambulances on the Sabbath. This is not true. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-wrapping-dead-islamic-terrorists-in-pigskin-and-lard-a-good-deterrent/135074/66 "2002-11-05T15:31:27Z")
I’m not playing games. Yes or no? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-wrapping-dead-islamic-terrorists-in-pigskin-and-lard-a-good-deterrent/135074/67 "2002-11-05T15:41:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by IzzyR \* > No, you do need to consider the distinction. And what you were actually engaging in was your customary routine of ignoring the actual point being made, in favor of making a forceful but illogical rejoinder. Whatever, I followed the motherfucking thread idiot-boy, and foudn the point valid in gross. The main point seems quite clear to me if one does not engage in pointless punctilious sophistry, forced insult (post mortem or not) of religious beliefs, a sort of martydor extenso, does nothing at all to deter the true believer and never has. You can nit-pick and dodge but mangetout had a straight on point. So, play your usual fucking game of excusing the inexcusable and denying the obvious. Perhaps you can also add in your defense of the neo-fascist Kahane groups for added value. ---
**Author:** ![IzzyR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@IzzyR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IzzyR)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-wrapping-dead-islamic-terrorists-in-pigskin-and-lard-a-good-deterrent/135074/68 "2002-11-05T15:56:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > I’m not playing games. > > Yes or no? I think you are playing games. But if you are not, try to re-ask your question so as to specify what it is that you are asking that has not already been addressed. Not much to ask. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Collounsbury_ > Whatever, I followed the motherfucking thread idiot-boy, and foudn the point valid in gross. The main point seems quite clear to me if one does not engage in pointless punctilious sophistry, forced insult (post mortem or not) of religious beliefs, a sort of martydor extenso, does nothing at all to deter the true believer and never has. You can nit-pick and dodge but mangetout had a straight on point. I guess it’s possible that you did follow the thread, and that your reasoning skills are simply sorely lacking. Perhaps I was being too charitable. Bottom line is the same either way. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-wrapping-dead-islamic-terrorists-in-pigskin-and-lard-a-good-deterrent/135074/69 "2002-11-05T16:50:24Z")
have you ever considered running for public office? you dodge questions like the best of them. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-wrapping-dead-islamic-terrorists-in-pigskin-and-lard-a-good-deterrent/135074/70 "2002-11-05T20:53:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Captain Amazing \* > \*\*Yeah, if I said to you “Destroy this corpse or I’ll blow up San Diego”, it would. > > It wouldn’t let you desecrate corpses based on some unproven theory that it might discourage future terrorists. \*\* Exactly. Since burying Muslims with pigs could actually lead to more killings. the Talmud forbids it. ---
**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-wrapping-dead-islamic-terrorists-in-pigskin-and-lard-a-good-deterrent/135074/71 "2002-11-06T00:52:20Z")
**Izzy** , if you’re going to devise foreign policy strategy based on Guy Ritchie movies, you should notice that this plan actually didn’t work for Bricktop. Maybe we should try selling the terrorists shoddy mobile homes instead. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-wrapping-dead-islamic-terrorists-in-pigskin-and-lard-a-good-deterrent/135074.md?page=3)