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U.S. military officials have launched an investigation after it was revealed coded Bible passages have been inscribed on high-powered rifle sights being used in Afghanistan and Iraq. The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers.
Lawyer and former air force officer Michael Weinstein said the inscriptions play into the hands of those who say the U.S. is on a 'crusade' against Islam.
'It allows the Mujahedeen, the Taliban, Al Qaeda and the insurrectionists and jihadists to claim they're being shot by Jesus rifles,' he said. U.S. military rules specifically prohibit the promotion of any religion in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The sights are manufactured by Michigan-based company Trijicon who have a £400 million contract to supply 800,000 sights to the U.S. military.
The company admitted to ABC TV that each of the sights has words and number that references a passage in the Bible - in direct violation of Pentagon rules on religion.
One of the citations on the gun sights, 2COR4:6, which refers to Second Corinthians 4:6 in the New Testament, which reads: 'For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.'
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