Watch where you point that thing, Marine

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Having written countless columns and blog posts arguing that see-no-Islam counterinsurgency strategy (COIN) has led to failure in two wars in the umma and the dhimmification of the U.S. military, it’s almost funny to see the debate more or less officially joined over my recent column on what appears to be simply the gross-out, PG-13 movie topic of peeing toward Mecca. Or, rather, not peeing toward Mecca. The latter is the lesson, which an Afghan Muslim contractor hired by the Marine Corps has been teaching Marines before they deploy to Afghanistan, in accordance with an Islamic canonical hadith.

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