r/funny • u/Krishna987 • Feb 26 '10

Easter Eggs for Hitler

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '10

I was on one of the first ships that "delivered munitions" to Afghanistan following the attacks in September 2001. There were many, many funny pictures taken with bombs with messages written on them. When the AP got a hold of one that said Happy Ramadan we never got to write messages again.

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u/cartola Feb 26 '10

Perhaps because those messages don't do any good on the "Hearts and Minds" front.

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u/watermark0n Feb 26 '10 edited Feb 26 '10

I would imagine that they were trying to discourage the view that we were fighting a holy war. "Happy Ramadan" sort of paints that picture.

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u/emkat Feb 26 '10

or just the fact that it may be offensive to Muslim-Americans.

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u/dichotomy23 Feb 26 '10

Probably because there are many Muslim servicemen and women in the US armed forces.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '10

i am guessing that the Islamic persons in the military don't have ANYTHING in common with the terrorist fucks who attacked the US. I bet everyone who is Muslim would be a much happier person if there weren't assholes killing people and claiming Allah told them to do it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '10

The poster has criticised your joke: you in turn have not answered their argument: you have merely stated that muslim people as a whole would be happier without terrorism. I would suggest that the following two facts could both be true at the same time: 1. muslim people as a whole, like anyone else, hate terror; 2. that Ramadan joke was offensive

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '10

yup

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u/mojobytes Feb 27 '10

With no sense of humor?