Update: Senator Glodis Angers Muslims with Circulated Flyer

June 27, 2003

Source: The Boston Globe

https://bostonglobe.newspapers.com/browse//the-boston-globe_9077/2003/06/27/main-edition/

On June 27, 2003 The Boston Globe reported that "Senator Guy W. Glodis has angered Muslims and a civil rights group over a flier he sent to fellow senators that says terrorist attacks could be deterred if convicted Muslim extremists were buried with pig entrails... The flier, which Glodis's 39 colleagues received Wednesday, said an execution of Muslim extremists in the Philippines was ordered by General John Joseph 'Black Jack' Pershing before World War I, in which the terrorists were shot with bullets dipped in pigs' blood, then buried with 'pigs' blood, entrails, etc.' According to the flier, contact with the blood and entrails of pigs 'instantly barred' Muslims from paradise, dooming them to hell. It said news of the burial deterred other terrorist attacks for 'the next forty-two years...' A Muslim group denounced the flier as 'slanderous garbage.' Internet websites cast doubt on the authenticity of the killings as described in the flier, with at least one referring to the description as a fictional chain... The Auburn Democrat would not say yesterday whether he agreed with the contents of the flier, which he circulated to his colleagues with a note that said 'thought this might be of interest to you...' 'I didn't write it,' he said. 'I just passed it along to my colleagues. I often share news items of interest with my colleagues...' The flier merely recounted historical fact, Glodis said, and should not have offended anyone."