Mass. Senator Skewered for Forwarding Pig Guts Email

Massachusetts State Senator Guy W. Glodis isn't the only one who has forwarded the offensive 'Black Jack' Pershing email since it first appeared in September 2001, but he is the only one who's made national headlines and earned the condemnation of American Muslims doing it.

The email outlines General Pershing's purported solution to Islamic terrorism in the Philippines around 1911 — namely, rounding up a group of Muslim terrorists, executing all but one of them and burying the dead in a mass grave filled with pig's blood and entrails. Since, according to the email, all Muslims are 'horrified' at the thought of touching swine flesh and would be 'instantly barred from paradise and doomed to hell' if they did so, word of Pershing's actions spread and 'brought a stop to terrorism in the Philippines for the next 50 years.'

Unfortunately for Sen. Glodis, who wasn't apologetic in the least when he spoke to reporters about the ruckus, no one has been able to substantiate these 'historical facts' in the entire year-and-a-half the email rumor has circulated online. I wish him luck in his research. [Update]