{"id":1209,"date":"2012-07-02T17:39:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T12:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohamediqbalp.wordpress.com\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2012-07-02T17:39:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T12:09:16","slug":"navy-seals-taking-target-practice-at-hijabi-muslim-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/02\/navy-seals-taking-target-practice-at-hijabi-muslim-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy SEALS taking target practice at hijabi Muslim women"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"instapaper_title entry-title\">Navy SEALS taking target practice at hijabi Muslim women<\/h1>\n<p class=\"byline\">\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"fn\">Omid Safi<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>|<\/span><br \/>\t\t\t\t\t\tJun 29, 2012<br \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>|<\/span><br \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/blogs\/omid-safi\/navy-seals-taking-target-practice-at-hijabi-muslim-women#comments\">Comments (27)<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<aside class=\"share\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"icons\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"st_sharethis_hcount\"><span class=\"stButton\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#000000;display:inline-block;cursor:pointer;\"><span><span class=\"stButton_gradient\"><span class=\"chicklets sharethis\">Share<\/span><\/span><span class=\"stArrow\"><span style=\"display:inline-block;\" class=\"stButton_gradient stHBubble\"><span class=\"stBubble_hcount\">2342<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span class=\"st_facebook_hcount\"><span class=\"stButton\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#000000;display:inline-block;cursor:pointer;\"><span><span style=\"background-image:url('\/\/w.sharethis.com\/images\/facebook_counter.png&quot;');\" class=\"stMainServices st-facebook-counter\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"stArrow\"><span style=\"display:inline-block;\" class=\"stButton_gradient stHBubble\"><span class=\"stBubble_hcount\">996<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span class=\"st_twitter_hcount\"><span class=\"stButton\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#000000;display:inline-block;cursor:pointer;\"><span><span style=\"background-image:url('\/\/w.sharethis.com\/images\/twitter_counter.png&quot;');\" class=\"stMainServices st-twitter-counter\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"stArrow\"><span style=\"display:inline-block;\" class=\"stButton_gradient stHBubble\"><span class=\"stBubble_hcount\">154<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span class=\"st_reddit_hcount\"><span class=\"stButton\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#000000;display:inline-block;cursor:pointer;\"><span><span class=\"stButton_gradient\"><span class=\"chicklets reddit\">Share<\/span><\/span><span class=\"stArrow\"><span style=\"display:inline-block;\" class=\"stButton_gradient stHBubble\"><span class=\"stBubble_hcount\">1076<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span class=\"st_plusone_hcount\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;line-height:0;position:relative;vertical-align:middle;bottom:0;width:75px;height:21px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/aside>\n<div class=\"instapaper_body entry-content\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"figure figure-float-right closed\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/images\/uploads\/blogs\/omid-safi\/seals_hijabi_target.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"instapaper_ignore entry-unrelated\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\tHere is a<a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonroads.com\/2012\/06\/fort-story-brings-home-combat-scenarios-seals\"> very curious story from a paper<\/a> in Virginia Beach:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\tThe story talks about the difficult conditions under which the Navy <br \/>special warfare community (Navy SEALs) have to train, including <br \/>simulated conditions in which they go through rooms that are designed to<br \/> resemble \u201ca mosque, bank, post office, market and residential compound.<br \/> In one section, nine chairs painted in primary hues sit behind desks in<br \/> an&nbsp;elementary school classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\tThe story doesn\u2019t mention it, but something caught my eye:&nbsp; the image <br \/>that they are using for target practice is unmistakably that of a Muslim<br \/> woman wearing hijab, with what looks like Qur\u2019anic inscriptions behind <br \/>her on the wall.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t<strong>These houses are called \u201ckill houses.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\tThe person who designed these so-called \u201ckill houses\u201d touts their high <br \/>technology:&nbsp; Larry Pacifico, \u201cwho manages the complex, said instructors <br \/>will control each scenario using an iPad to adjust the lighting and <br \/>movement of the targets. Cameras will record the action, so SEALs will <br \/>find out where the bullets they fired came to rest, he said, down to <br \/>specific bones and organs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\tApparently the Navy has enough concern about technology to want to know<br \/> which bones and which organs the Navy SEALs would be hitting, but not <br \/>enough concern to know that they are taking target practice shooting at <br \/>Muslim women.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3>\tYeah,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/laurarozen\/0910\/Obama_We_are_not_at_war_with_Islam.html\"> we are not at war with Islam<\/a>, they keep telling us.<\/p>\n<p>\tWe just train our most skilled soldiers to kill Muslim women.<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\tGod have mercy on us.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\tIt\u2019s not so much that this looks bad.<\/p>\n<p>\tThis is bad.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It\u2019s rotten to the core.<\/p>\n<p>\tCan the folks in charge at the NAVY not see how this contributes to the<br \/> dehumanizing of Muslims, not just Muslim women, not just Muslim <br \/>civilians, but all Muslims?<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navy SEALS taking target practice at hijabi Muslim women Omid Safi | Jun 29, 2012 | Comments (27) Share2342&nbsp;996&nbsp;154Share1076 &nbsp; Here is a very curious story from a paper in Virginia Beach: The story talks about the difficult conditions under which the Navy special warfare community (Navy SEALs) have to train, including simulated conditions in&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/02\/navy-seals-taking-target-practice-at-hijabi-muslim-women\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}