Jalila: Good afternoon, we are pleased to present our research on the Americans’ usage of pig’s blood

and body parts on Moro insurgents. We have never heard of this issue, and we’re not sure where it came
from, but in looking at some information about John Pershing, one can get a sense of how such an issue
could have been created.

Jalila :To start, the story of U.S. commander John J. Pershing executing Muslims with bullets dipped in
pigs’ blood. A tale that has been generally discredited and caused a lot of controversy.

Jalila : Who are Moro insurgents?

According to him, John J. Pershing, Americans waged campaigns in Mindanao against "Moros," or simply
Muslims in Mindanao (Levine, 2018). Juramentados are what they call the swordsmen of Moros.

Jalila: When did it start?

Between 1899 and 1902, during the Philippine-American War, Pershing took part in the American
conquest of the Philippines. Pershing ran campaigns against "Moros," or Muslims in Mindanao, during
this time. 2018 (Levine). Some American soldiers began suspending dead pigs over the bodies of the
juramentados, allowing the pigs' blood to flow onto the bodies of the juramentados. Juramentados are
what they call the swordsmen of Moros.

In the Quran, any contact with any part of a pig's body was enough to condemn a person to hell. As a
result, this method was quite effective in preventing recidivism. (Homer, 2015) American soldiers fought
Muslim terrorism in the Philippines a century before they did so in the Middle East. Their assailants were
Moro Muslims, whose fiery devotion seemed unimaginable. The disorientation has gone so far that the
media now maintains that American forces did not use pig corpses or pig blood to discourage Muslim
terrorists.

As a result, we can be confident that the practice of burying Muslim terrorists with pigs was real and
widespread.

Jalila :So have you wondered, what is the relation of pig’s blood in Islam culture or religion?

- Pig is absolutely unclean and eating its meat, and fat etc., as well as using its skin or any other
parts is strictly forbidden. Allah has said in various places in the Holy Qur'an:

Accordingly, "Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine . . ."(Qur'an, 5:3)

Jalila: Have you also wondered, what is the main reason why Americans practice this act?

- The phrase and the Spanish practice of burying Muslim terrorists beside dead pigs were
borrowed by American soldiers, who had little prior experience dealing with Muslim terrorists.
The pig's blood was also used to defend against Muslim terrorists and militants to stop
counterattacks.

Since the Americans are asserting that the Moro people, who abhorred pork, would be unable to enter
the hereafter if they had any touch with the animals, including swine or pigs' blood, they anticipate
retaliatory attacks. To explain further Mr. Isit will discuss General Pershing.
Jehu: Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing, who would rise to fame in World War I, was a U.S. Army
commander and served as governor of the southern Philippines' mainly Muslim Moro province between
1909 and 1913. Pershing was confronted with a Moro insurgency, which he largely broke in June 1913
in a battle that killed some 500 Moro fighters. General John "Black Jack" Pershing, the first and only
man to ever be promoted to General of the Armies during his lifetime, is said to be the author of this
strategy (Washington was promoted posthumously). Despite the fact that the strategy is unproven, it is
frequently mentioned in books and websites as a way to combat Islamic terrorists. a 1961 biography –
Richard O’Conner’s Black Jack Pershing – also indicates that Pershing at least threatened to cross cultural
boundaries. to quote: Pershing signaled another officer, and two orderlies arrived shortly after. One was
carrying a dead pig, while the other was carrying a pail of pig's blood. The Moros were most afraid of
being contaminated by a pig, which would prevent them from entering Mohammedan heaven. As a
result, there is a link between Pershing and pig's blood. Another section in the same book, however,
observes Pershing's plan in rejecting this religious taboo as a weapon against the Moros. there was one
letter to support this claim. For that may we have Ms. Cereno.

SUPPORTING EVIDENCE NA ‘TO:

Alyssun: A letter written by a soldier who served in the Philippines appears to be the only historical
evidence that something like this truly happened. TIME published a letter to the editor from a soldier
called J. R. McKey in 1941., who had previously served with Pershing in the Philippines. McKey mentions
burying pigs to prevent Muslim insurgents in the letter, but he doesn't attribute the practice to Pershing.
"Mr. C.C. Booth of Dallas, Texas, who served in Mindanao under Pershing, recalls encountering him hang
a Moro chieftain by the heels over an open grave, kill a pig, and then dump the Moro into the grave with
the bloody animal,"according to a 1962 article by Donald Smythe in the Pacific Historical Review, an
academic journal. The document indicates that the US military threatened Muslim insurgents in the
Philippines with pigs. According to Politifact, a narrative about Col. Frank West is included in a Pershing
biography titled My Life Before The World War, 1860-1917. According to Pershing, Muslim insurgents
were "publicly buried in the same cemetery as a dead pig" in the West. It wasn't pleasant to have to take
such drastic measures, but the fear of going to hell rather than heaven discouraged some would-be
assassins’." This issue was then recirculated by the 45th U.S. President Donald Trump. Mr. Isit will be
talking about Trump's praise on Pershing's pig’s blood story.

Jehu: During his presidential campaign, Trump brought up a story about General John J. Pershing
executing Muslim prisoners in the Philippines in the early 1900s. Pershing is most known for
commanding the American army in Europe during World War I,“caught 50 terrorists that did tremendous
damage and killed many people and he took the 50 terrorists and he took 50 men and he dipped 50
bullets in pig’s blood,” as Trump said during one rally in 2016. He described it as an example of how to
deal with “radical Islamic terrorists.” Trump went out to describe a mass execution shooting of 49 of the
inmates, with the last one being sent to tell the others what happened. This "story" was used by Trump
to show that America has to be firm on terrorism and use harsh measures.
Alyssun: There have been reports that Pershing buried Muslims with pigs or threw pig blood on them.
According to the History News Network, Pershing is described as dousing captives with pig's blood in a
Chicago Daily Tribune article from 1927 before releasing them to warn other people about being
sprinkled with the blood. Bullets were no match for those drips of porcine blood, according to the story.
According to a 1927 Chicago Daily Tribune article, Pershing had inmates from the Moro Rebellion in the
Philippines. The Moros are Muslim fighters who oppose American forces. * According to the newspaper
article, General John Pershing poured pig's blood on several of his convicts (which the juramentados felt
would forever rebuke them), but then Pershing let the inmates leave. He issued a warning to others
about being sprayed with pig's blood, claiming that "those drops of porcinegore were more powerful
than gunshots," There were no executions as described by Trump. In reality, Pershing preferred to
negotiate with the Moros rather than fight them. As William Lambers noted, Pershing executed no
Muslims. Anecdotal attributes to Pershing's success to his solely threatening to do as described:
*Pershing threatened Muslims to burry them with pigskin was held currently for many years, few weeks
before terrorists attacks on America in 2001.

(Additional Insights nalang to)

Alyssun: For additional information, the editorial manager of the 2013 version, John T. Greenwood,
referred to a letter about the occurrence from Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, the officer of the Philippines
Division, to Pershing: "obviously nothing remains to be done.

Jehu: However, we comprehend it has for some time been a custom to bury (insurgents) with pigs when
they kill Americans. I think this a decent plan, for assuming that anything will deter the (insurgents) it is
the possibility of going to hell rather than to paradise. You can depend on me to remain by you in
keeping up with this custom. It is the main conceivable thing we can do to beat the insane fanatics."

Jalila: While these findings, in all actuality, do give solid proof that United States forces involved pigs as a
strategy against Muslim guerillas, they do not uphold the case Trump made. There is no proof that
Pershing himself committed these acts; there is nothing said regarding the utilization of 50 bullets
dunked in pig's blood. Generally significant, there is no proof to help Trump's case that this strategy was
viable in halting violence or that it would give a valuable policy today.