IDAHO - South Fork Industries, a gun company in the State of Idaho, is selling “Jihawg Ammunition,” a pork-laced bullet that serves as a “deterrent to the ever-growing threat of radical Islam and Sharia Law.”

According to the South Fork Industries’ website, the idea of these bullets came as a response to the construction of an Islamic community center near Ground Zero in New York City.

“Jihawg Ammo is certified ‘Haraam’ or unclean,” reads a statement on the website.  “According to the belief system of the radical Islamist becoming ‘unclean’ during Jihad, it will prevent their attaining entrance into heaven,”

Islam forbids its followers from eating pork. In Islam, dead pigs, like all dead animals that are not slaughtered properly for dietary consumption, are considered “Nijis,” or spiritually and physically unclean. A Muslim cannot perform prayers with anything “Nijis,” such as blood, on his or her clothes. However, no school of Islam mentions cleanliness at the time of death as a requirement to go to heaven.

Along with the bullets, the Idaho company is selling shirts, hats and targets, depicting a pig in a traditional Arab Gulf outfit and slogans, stating “Put Some HAM in MoHAMed;” “Give em a Spankin with some Bacon;” and “Do 72 Virgins a Favor.”

The pork-laced bullets have already shown popularity, with 7,568 likes on a Facebook group page that promotes them.

The page includes some anti-Islamic comments from buyers and fans of the bullets.

The “Jihawg ammunition” are bullets with pork-infused paint to kill “Islamic radicals.”

“I believe it is required that to be a Muslim, you have to have sex with little boys,” reads a comment by Heidi Ho from Minnesota. “How can you tell a camel from a woman over there?”

Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), said that the bullets reflect some of the hatred and bigotry against Muslims in the country today.

“My concern is that some mentally unstable person would see a sister wearing the hijab, or a brother with a beard, equate them with extremists and harm them with these bullets,” he added.

Walid, said that while a legal case cannot be made against the bullets, Muslims and Islamic centers should be aware of them for their own security, because of hatred against them, irrespective of the “Jihawg Ammunition.”

The pork-laced bullets have made national news.  Walid says that media coverage is promoting these “money-making antics.”  “It’s capitalism,” he said.

Although the idea of these bullets appears comical, some comments on the “Jihawg” Facebook group page have promoted the bullets as a serious way to combat Islamist fundamentalists, citing unfounded accounts of Russian and American generals using pork effectively against Islamist fighters in the early 1900’s.

“Someone needs to smuggle your ammo to U.S. troops in combat in Afghanistan,” commented Jeffry Wilson.

A few remarks on the group’s page, however, condemn the idea of the bullets. One comment described buyers and fans of the pork-laced ammunition as “racist, xenophobic and ignorant.”

Judaism bans its followers from eating pork, similarly to Islam, but South Fork Industries clarified that Jews are not the intended targets of the new bullets.

“Please understand that for Jewish folks the pork issue is ceremonial uncleanliness and not a barrier to heaven. Our Jewish friends understand this, and this is why our product is defensive in nature–only works when being attacked by someone in Jihad–thus the name–Jihawg,” writes the admin of the company’s Facebook page.