Kill Hadji

[swolf]

I don't think that's intended as a racist statement (at least not by most people who use it, granted there are always those idiots who will be racist). I believe it's just slang for the terrorists and has more to do with what their religious required journey to their holy land rather than the Johnny Quest character. I may be wrong on that last bit though. Oh, and Anarchy In Detroit...I would recommend that you not say things like that. I've known a few Marines and they can be rather violent when offended. I, myself, was Army.

 

[swolf]

That's a little sad. I mean you get racism in any war you come into with some nasty sounding names, but you'd think you'd leave that sort of thing on the battlefield rather than parade it around town. It seems a little silly of them to do something as inflammatory as that.

I think it should be expected that they continue to think they same way in home that they did in the battlefield, at least keep some similarities. I mean, if you train to be a soldier for months-years and then spend years living that lifestyle constantly, it is understandable that they would keep that mentality. I'm not trying to start an arguement, just explain another point of view. Try studying the same thing for that long and live a life where that is the main topic and then move on to something different without retaining and expressing things related to that.

 

[usmcleolion]

Marines are generally fucking retarded anyways.

listen bro you have no right to say this ok. why are you talking all this crap about us anyways. you are the one who is fuckin retarded. you are no better than those fuckin dumb hippies protesting marines during vietnam.

 

[usmcleolion]

we just use hadji to identify targets. sort of like vietnam marines used charlie for the viet cong. oorah

 

[punkrocker27]

Oh no someone else is bigoted? what will we ever do.

Just to clear things up, Hadji means pilgrim but in military talk it just means insurgent

 

[Croix Sinistre]

While i Iraq i learned that the muslims call their elders "haji", almost like its their name. Haj is their holy pilgrimage to mecca, and someone who completes it is known as a 'haji', typically these people are older folks who plan for sometime for the trip.

Its actually a term of respect among muslims. Of course, Americans have screwed up another unoffensive word. (****** and gay anone?)

 

[Ham_authority95]

People like that give rest of the military, and indeed the whole US, a bad name.

We don't need the help, thank you very much.

 

[farlow0311]

Hadji is a term that is used in the Muslim world to describe an older man that has made the pilgrimage to the Mecca and is capable of wearing the black and white shemagh (head wrap) that denotes this.

The sticker with the slogan "kill hadji" is used by US Marines to mark who they are and what they've done. Warrior societies have marked belongings since the beginning of time denoting of the kills they have made and where they have fought. Even the Bible speaks of Sampson slaying his enemies with the jaw bone of a donkey and keeping thier foreskins in a bag to denote his kills.

Any warrior that goes to war and comes back will have his or her own way of dealing with the things they have seen and what they have had to do. Much more so when they were ordered, lawfully, by a sovereign nation to commit these acts.

My advice is not to criticize what you don't understand. Instead of calling Marines "fucking retards" or "backwood hicks", how about you walk up to them and say "thank you for doing the things in life that I neither have the intestinal fortitude nor the interest in doing". Because at the end of the day they did it for you and they asked for nothing in return. They walked through the valley of the shadow of death, they saw crushed and broken bodies burning in the streets, they pulled women and children close behind them to protect them when the enemy put them in front of them to protect themselves, and they returned home with no thanks, no answers, and a lifetime of trying to redefine themselves in a society that can't stand them or thier acts.

Who is posting this reply? A Marine infantrymen who walked in the lands of the Hadji and Mujahadeen and lived to tell about it

Semper Fidelis, and may the God who any of you believe in judge us all when the time comes, for I owe no man an explanation of my deeds and actions

 

[MoMo_TheBadgerGod]

So, as any lower enlisted SOLDIER knows,"Kill Hadji" goes hand in hand with "kill the enemy". It IS a racist phase. It's right up there with "gook", "red skin" and "yankee" and all the other terms created by war to describe the enemy. They call us "infidels". Some of us have the balls to goto war and kill hadji to keep hadji from killing the rest of you while you sit here and call us racists for fighting for your freedoms. Who cares where the term came from, every soldier knows what it means.

 

[Tekkawarrior]

Hadji is a term that is used in the Muslim world to describe an older man that has made the pilgrimage to the Mecca and is capable of wearing the black and white shemagh (head wrap) that denotes this.

The sticker with the slogan "kill hadji" is used by US Marines to mark who they are and what they've done. Warrior societies have marked belongings since the beginning of time denoting of the kills they have made and where they have fought. Even the Bible speaks of Sampson slaying his enemies with the jaw bone of a donkey and keeping thier foreskins in a bag to denote his kills.

Any warrior that goes to war and comes back will have his or her own way of dealing with the things they have seen and what they have had to do. Much more so when they were ordered, lawfully, by a sovereign nation to commit these acts.

My advice is not to criticize what you don't understand. Instead of calling Marines "fucking retards" or "backwood hicks", how about you walk up to them and say "thank you for doing the things in life that I neither have the intestinal fortitude nor the interest in doing". Because at the end of the day they did it for you and they asked for nothing in return. They walked through the valley of the shadow of death, they saw crushed and broken bodies burning in the streets, they pulled women and children close behind them to protect them when the enemy put them in front of them to protect themselves, and they returned home with no thanks, no answers, and a lifetime of trying to redefine themselves in a society that can't stand them or thier acts.

Who is posting this reply? A Marine infantrymen who walked in the lands of the Hadji and Mujahadeen and lived to tell about it

Semper Fidelis, and may the God who any of you believe in judge us all when the time comes, for I owe no man an explanation of my deeds and actions

Though your intentions are good, those of your commanders were not. I am an Arab and even though you killed some of "my people" I understand your intentions/position.

It's a shame that in this day and age everyone thinks they are fighting for a good cause, too bad we don't live in a world where we don't fight to begin with.

(I'm not having a go at you, much respect for serving your country.)