The sign says “Lcpl Boudreaux killed my Dad, th[en] he knocked up my sister!”

The thing about the article is that the investigation is focusing on if the claims made on the sign are true. So, if he didn’t actually kill Dad and didn’t knock up Sis all’s forgiven? Ugh…

The military’s response to all this is astoundingly ham-fisted- check out this quote:

“This picture and sign directed towards a Muslim family is inexcusable,” [Gunnery Sgt. Jamal Baadani, the president and founder of the Association of Patriotic Arab Americans in Military] said via e-mail. “Inexcusable because if this lance corporal was given a basic class on Islam, he would have known that remarks such as ‘knocking up’ a Muslim Arab woman is not tolerated and violates the honor of a Muslim woman and her family.”

You see Muslims, unlike those of us from other parts of the world, are sensitive about being raped and having their parents killed. They’re wacky like that. Perhaps we should study their reactions to other atrocities so we will know how they will react in any given situation.

Update: Looking at the full size version it looks like a fake to me. Still, the military spokesman talking about Iraqi’s like they’re animals to be studied was what really annoyed me about this whole thing.