US arms maker markets Christian-themed assault rifle, An accoutrements maker in Florida is block Christian symbols on its beforehand rifles, in a business artifice denounced by a Muslim accumulation as fomenting "hatred, analysis and violence."
The "Cruzado" beforehand burglarize is inscribed with the cantankerous of the Knights Templar, a religious adjustment that fought in the Crusades, and a canticle from the Bible -- appearance that its
maker, Spike's Tactical, says are advised to accumulate the weapons out of Muslim hands.
"We capital to accomplish abiding we congenital a weapon that would never be able to be acclimated by Muslim terrorists to annihilate innocent humans or beforehand their abolitionist agenda," said Ben Thomas, agent for the company, which is based in Apopka, Florida.
The Christian symbols would anticipate the accoutrements from getting alien to the Middle East, he said, claiming the rifles accept been a hit with the company's customers.
"We awash out of rifles in the aboriginal 72 hours and there's a excess of several weeks," he said, crumbling to say how abounding accept sold.
The Florida annex of the Council on American-Islamic Relations issued a account aspersing "this manufacturer's adorned new gun."
"This is just addition base business artifice advised to accumulation from the advance of hatred, division, and violence," it said.
Thomas, asserting he was not a bigot, insisted: "If they anticipate the chat of Jesus Christ causes hatred, they don't accept Jesus Christ."
The "Cruzado" beforehand burglarize is inscribed with the cantankerous of the Knights Templar, a religious adjustment that fought in the Crusades, and a canticle from the Bible -- appearance that its
"We capital to accomplish abiding we congenital a weapon that would never be able to be acclimated by Muslim terrorists to annihilate innocent humans or beforehand their abolitionist agenda," said Ben Thomas, agent for the company, which is based in Apopka, Florida.
The Christian symbols would anticipate the accoutrements from getting alien to the Middle East, he said, claiming the rifles accept been a hit with the company's customers.
"We awash out of rifles in the aboriginal 72 hours and there's a excess of several weeks," he said, crumbling to say how abounding accept sold.
The Florida annex of the Council on American-Islamic Relations issued a account aspersing "this manufacturer's adorned new gun."
"This is just addition base business artifice advised to accumulation from the advance of hatred, division, and violence," it said.
Thomas, asserting he was not a bigot, insisted: "If they anticipate the chat of Jesus Christ causes hatred, they don't accept Jesus Christ."
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