Thursday, January 21, 2010

Hooray for New Zealand

Biblical citations inscribed on U.S.-manufactured weapon sights used by New Zealand's troops in Afghanistan will be removed because they are inappropriate and could stoke religious tensions, New Zealand said Thursday.

"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."

"Now we are in discussions with the company in the United States who will ensure the inscriptions are removed, and we wouldn't want them on future sights," he told reporters.
Good on yer, Kiwis! Now let's hope the US military has not been overrun by the religious wackos.

UPDATE: Trijicon will stop putting the bible references on their military scopes and provide tools to remove existing references for all their military customers.

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