That’s fitting in Barack Obama’s America, since he so indefatigably aided the Brotherhood when they took power in Egypt and continued to do so even after they were toppled, and since the Brotherhood is a chief competitor to the Islamic State in wanting to establish a caliphate of its own. It’s also a fitting symbol for an America that is ideologically fractured and confused in the face of a growing Islamic jihad threat, and no longer confident of its own heritage or principles.
But this patch has no resemblance to U.S. Army patches of the past, which featured the American eagle and other recognizably American imagery, not the two swords of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In case you’re not sure which is which, the Brotherhood symbol is on the left and the Army patch is on the right.
“Army to issue shoulder patch for ISIL fight,” by Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, September 24, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
WASHINGTON — Soldiers in Iraq will soon have a new shoulder sleeve patch to signify their service in the fight against the Islamic State.
All told, there are about 3,335 troops in the region training Iraqi troops, providing security and conducing bombing missions on Islamic State targets in Iraq and neighboring Syria.
The Army’s patch features crossed scimitars, a palm wreath and stars. The scimitars, short swords with curved blades, are meant to symbolize the twin goals of the U.S.-led coalition: to defeat the Islamic State, also referred to as ISIL, and to restore stability in the region, according to Army documents.

Rev g says
Ugh
Don McKellar says
Absolute insanity.
Obama must have laughed himself silly when this design came across his desk.
cs says
What to say about this crap? Two scimitars crossing, completely Islamic, WTF???
Disgusting and disturbing.
john spielman says
better yet why not have an American eagle tearing flesh off of a stylized muhammed
Brenda says
I love it!
Shane says
Should be two mosques burning!
Rodney says
This is a abomination, it is affront to our soldiers and country. There is no question this is a Islamic patch and is a baldfaced attempt to Islamize our military.
It won’t be but a matter of time before other Islamic patches start appearing as well.
We’re getting close to the end.
Timothius says
Oh please, this is so wrong!
ICH says
Worst president in the history of America
miriamrove says
Exactly. m
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Worst president in the history of America
I sense the presence of ex-Prez Jimmy Carter in your comment here. But even Jimmy served his nation on a nuclear sub and, despite never being given credit for it took Alfred Kahn’s sage advice and began the round of massive industry deregulation that the wonderful Reagan followed through on and ended up getting all the credit for, which was unfair.
What good thing has Prez Barack Hussein done? Can somebody tee me up just *one* good thing this total phony has done? Anybody?
Don McKellar says
I am at a complete loss to come up with a legitimately good thing that Obama has done.
One would think that by extension his being president as an almost black man would have done some repair and revision to America’s continued race relation problem that’s always boiling under the surface. However, even that possibility was wiped out with these endless series of riots and race-fueled looting in the streets every time a person of color gets himself shot — and it doesn’t matter if he’s a proven criminal who is rushing a white police officer — the riot breaks out. And Obama, for the first half-dozen or so, didn’t do anything. Never did a damn thing to try and tackle the issue of police and race issues in any constructive way. This could have been his shining moment. But no… Not until some recent one involving a mass killing by a lunatic in that church did he finally show up. But what was accomplished by him finally responding? Absolutely nothing. It’s not going to stop the next lunatic from killing people.
Instead he has done as much as he could to focus on “climate change” and being completely unAmerican by promoting moslems over any other group whenever possible. That’s his legacy.
Peggy says
What good has Obama done? Well, that depends on who for.
Don McKellar says
In modern times he has done what few believed possible and has now surpassed George the Idiot who had surpassed peanut butter brain Jimmy as all time worst. When one adds up his tally of disasters and the damage he has done in the world, Obama is certainly the #1 worst modern era president.
somehistory says
Will they be commanded to wear it?
DeMolay says
What’s wrong with a Red Cross on a white background ?
IN HOC SIGNO VINCES
Rev g says
I do not recall any swastika or rising sun patches during wwII.
Eddy says
45th ID had a swastika unit patch prior to? WWII but it was changed a few years before the war broke out.
Rev g says
Which is why I specified during WWII. It was a Native American good luck symbol, but when it became associated with nazi Germany it was changed to avoid controversy, somewhat the opposite of the case here.
Brian says
Let’s use the drawing of Mohammad with a bomb for a turban.
underbed cat says
Brian I like that idea,(turban with the clock, oops I mean bom) unless you are sent to pre-isis Iraq or Afghanistan to train muslims to fight in Syria, then your better off with the new MB looking green patch…which would help you blend in with the Isis group.
That “patch”, threw a little panic my way, realizing the extent that the military and WH has been infiltrated by darwah, it seemed to say there is no end.
kangi_nunpa says
Note that the wreath makes a crescent – with a nice star on the opposite side.
BlueRaven says
I am disgusted.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
I don’t wanna be a complainer, but I don’t see any nude 8 yrs old boys on their hands and knees on this patch. What gives?
pennant8 says
Am I missing something here? When did this “patch” business start. I know about campaign ribbons, I have a couple myself, but I’m not familiar with these theater patches. On the other hand, maybe it’s not a theater patch, maybe it’s a theatrics patch. Given our attitude toward these jihadist wars, maybe the logo should be a pair of crossed white flags.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Well put. Except they should have an image of the Holy Ko-Ran in the middle, between the two white flags.
pennan8 says
Not to mention the predominance of the color green, as in “green on Blue” killings.
silvergreycat says
pennant8,
My guess…this theater patch is being used as a unit patch for the soldiers stationed there.
silvergreycat says
What the Army should do is make Fifth Army its unit in Central Command and make Third Army its unit in Northern Command. Won’t happen…
Current Fifth Army… http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/5army.htm
Current Third Army… http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/arcent.htm
Kangi_nunpa says
Generally you wear the Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of the unit you deployed with (boots on ground 30+ days) on the right shoulder of the uniform (current unit goes on the left). Some Areas of Operations or overarching units also have an SSI – for example CENTCOM, Multi-National Corps – Iraq, International Security Assistance Forces – Afghanistan, etc.
Those have propagated, it would seem.
gravenimage says
New U.S. Army patch for fight against the Islamic State closely resembles Muslim Brotherhood logo
………………………
WTF?
It’s not just that it resembles the Muslim Brotherhood logo–it’s that the image of crossed scimitars is more widely thoroughly Islamic.
An almost identical image of crossed scimitars is used by the Pakistani and Iranian armies, and the war flag of Saudi Arabia. Crossed scimitars are specifically an image of *Islamic* war.
Crossed scimitars are used on many Jihadist flags. Often the Qur’an appears between the crossed scimitars.
Scimitars are also used on the flags of several Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia and the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen.
Is this ignorance–someone who saw these images but did not understand their significance–or is it deliberate appeasement or worse?
In any case, this is utter madness.
Mazo says
Cravenmirage, the United States Marine Corps has been using scimitar style Mameluke swords for over 200 years.
gravenimage says
Yes, and I address that point above.
Mazo’s implication that this means that we have been using logos mimicking this Jihad image is, like so much else he says, quite false.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
There is nothing more egregious than a mistaken correction. There are so many mistaken corrections nowadays. You didn’t build that, the for profit construction company built that, but never mind that, it’s the thought that the collective built that that counts cuz it’s a warm fuzzy Marxian thought, a thought the news entertainers can handle.
More Ham Ed says
Again, the Mameluke sword is NOT wide at the end, and is NOT islamic.
voegelinian says
Well, I don’t know if all Islamic swords have to be wide at one end.
Anyway, here is some relevant info. If one wants to be punctilious, one could say that the USMC sword is modeled after an Islamic sword, but in its modeling, may vary from the look of a typical Islamic sword. But that it was modeled after an Islamic sword (since Mamelukes were Muslim) seems indisputable:
When Lt. Presley Neville O’Bannon and his men were trying to find a way to knock some sense into the Pasha of Tripoli,
…William Eaton, “Navy Agent for the several Barbary Regencies,” suggested forming an alliance with Hamet, elder brother of the reigning sovereign of Tripoli.
…
The party arrived at Cairo on 8 January 1805, where they learned that Hamet and a few Tripolitans had joined a band of rebellious Mamelukes who were defying the rule of the Turkish viceroy.
[skipping over the details of how we finally achieved victory on “the shores of Tripoli”]
…
Before they parted, Hamet gave O’Bannon a jeweled sword with a Mameluke hilt which he had carried while with the Mamelukes in Egypt. Upon his return to the United States the state of Virginia presented O’Bannon a sword modeled after the original Mameluke blade given him by Hamet.
On the sword there’s a gold plate depicting O’Bannon receiving the sword gift:
The blade of this sword, a true scimitar, has more curve than the modified blade adopted for the U.S. Marine Corps officers’ swords, which continues to be a part of their uniform although now worn only on special occasions.
http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/historydivision/Pages/Who's%20Who/M-O/o'bannon_pn.aspx
voegelinian says
P.S.: However, that said, the USMC sword at least has a dignified back story, where we (the fledgling eagle of a nation, America) intelligently allied ourselves with one Mohammedan faction in order to better fight the other Mohammedan faction — a bit of Realpolitik done wisely (as opposed to the colossal ineptitude that has characterezed the OBushma Administrations over the past 15 years).
So what’s the backstory, the rationale, of this current patch? Is it supposed to be a show or sign of indiscriminate amity with the Vast Majority of Muslim Moderates (who include millions who hate us seditiously, and not all of them lie about it, either)? Is it supposed to show our bonafides to our Muslim Friends whenever we meddle in their lands in order to try to remake them in our Democratic Image — sort of like a nicotine patch, but one designed to wean us or ward us off our temptation toward Islamophobia…?
abad says
The United States Army is using scimitars in fighting ISL?
Jay Boo says
Putin is backing Assad.
Obama is backing Islamists who give their weapons to ISIS.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
No, no, no. This patch is just a shout-out to the soldiers’ favorite hockey team:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=Buffalo%20Sabres%20logo
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
And hey, what’s with the utterly impractical Z-shaped hilt? Does the Z stand for Zorro? Or for Zionist?
Angemon says
Here’s an alternative:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/STC1.png
Harvey Nextman says
Look at the patch and compare it to the center of the Iranian flag. The shapes created by the swords and the wreaths spell out the tawhid.
Francis Flandro says
The U.S. Military doesn’t fight ISIS.
The U.S. funds ISIS.
The U.S. Supplies ISIS.
The U.S. Trains ISIS.
And, the U.S. Arms ISIS.
ISIS is a U.S. Proxy Force.
gravenimage says
Francis Flandro wrote:
ISIS is a U.S. Proxy Force.
………………………..
What utter crap.
The US–like the rest of the West, has been frequently clueless about Islam, and has been slow and all too often ineffective in fighting Jihad.
But the idea that the US is making common cause with the vicious Islamic State–which has murdered many Americans and hates everything we stand for–is just sickening false calumny.
Custos Custodum says
Some people have a rather longer history of fighting the Islamic threat, and have the decorations to show for it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Schwarzenberg#/media/File:%C4%8Cesk%C3%BD_Krumlov_-_Rathaus_1_Schwarzenberger_Wappen.jpg
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
I’m not sure about this, but has a fake war ever been waged in history like the one we’re putatively waging against terror? I don’t think so. In the past wars have always been real wars, with actual armies and weapons on both sides contesting territories. Then the metaphorical wars started, the War On Poverty and the War On Drugs being the two biggest. Then along came the Moslems with their real war, and we seem to have responded with a metaphorical war, a fake war. It would seem that the side waging a fake war against an opponent waging a real war is bound to lose. The clue is that we lost the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs, but they persist as apparently perpetual wars, replete with the lost civil liberties and lost money. Spengler says that the War On “Terror” will be a Thirty Years War that will eventually peter out as the Moslems run out of young men willing to serve as Mujahidin. But Spengler forgets that they fight hoping for Islamo-Porno Heaven Jannat, a powerful motivator.
Me, I’ve dropped the assumption that we will win this real war, which was started in 1993 by the blind sheik; I think we’ll lose it, and that it will never end, it will only be that we’ll rearrange the chairs where the current victims, the Moslems, are on top. The only wild card I see to this scenario is full economic collapse, a likelihood given the concurrence of socialism’s inevitable end game with the rise of the Global Jihad. I do not see full on open all out war of resistance by the Infidels as a possibility in the future. Self defense along with common sense has been effectively retired from the culture.
The great George Orwell was right, he was a visionary. He may have got the villains wrong, but he was right about the TV propaganda part.
Keil says
When an insecure president is elected, his more peculiar personality will permeate through the nation.
underbed cat says
What General heads the U.S Army? It appears our military was the Muslim Brotherhoods subversion target….this has to be a joke right? Maybe refugee army for OB.
Mannie says
OOOOOH! It resembles the moslem brotherhood patch. It is round and has crossed, stylized Arab swords. We already have a ton of patches with crossed swords, crossed bayonets, crossed arrows, crossed spears, crossed lightning bolts …
This is not the one to piss your pants about.
govtdestroys says
Just keep allowing and looking the other way while the usurper obama inches his way towards sharia law and before you know it will be the law of the land,NOT!!!!
SoCalMike says
Don’t anyone call it treason.
This is what we’re being served up front and center.
And no one uses the word.
No one even criticizes Obama in the media who is there to keep Obama protected and isolated from the disasters his policy treason has caused and are causing now.
govtdestroys says
To all of those that still doubt that obama isn’t a muslim terrorist supporter,you should seriously check yourselves into a psychiatric hospital!! It will be a miracle if America can stave off a muslime sharia law takeover of the United States!!! America desperately needs a conservative hard line president to repeal EVERYTHING that the usurper obama has done to our nation!!!!
Brandon says
I think you need to check yourself into an insane asylum for believing in such conspiratorial nonsense. It’s hard to believe you’re even an adult. Nothing you say is true and you should be ashamed. In 50 years if you’re even still alive, America will be no closer to sharia law or anything insane your talking about. And your entire tirade about the transformation about America will be proven false. There is no such thing as sharia law in America. These are two crossed damn swords that are on a patch that is RELATED TO THE MIDDLE EAST. Of course there would be insignia associating it with THE MIDDLE EAST. Other than the fact that these swords look NOTHING ALIKE in both patches, there is literally nothing else on the entire patch that resembles each other. And why do you crazy people insist on saying Obama I behind this? This was RELEASED BY THE ARMY. Are you so unpatriotic that you think our own armed forces are infiltrated with Islamic extremists? Or there’s some giant military conspiracy? Complete idiocy and you should be ashamed for your lack of basic logic.
Angemon says
Brandon posted:
“I think you need to check yourself into an insane asylum for believing in such conspiratorial nonsense. It’s hard to believe you’re even an adult. Nothing you say is true and you should be ashamed. In 50 years if you’re even still alive, America will be no closer to sharia law or anything insane your talking about.”
Since you can look into the future, can you tell me this week’s EuroMillions numbers? Anyway, try telling there’s no sharia law in America to the kids whose school systems removed jell-o from school lunches at the request of muslim parents (because jell-o is made with pig, and muslims can’t eat pork, and the muslim kids’ parents rather then, I don’t know, telling their kids not to eat it, sued). Or Safoorah Khan, a muslim math teacher from Chicago, who requested three weeks vacation for a religious pilgrimage to Mecca, a once-in-a-lifetime requirement. It was denied because she was the only math lab instructor at her middle school. As a response, she and the US Department of Justice took up a lawsuit against the school district claiming religious discrimination. And they won. Or you could say that to the muslim sharia cabs in Minneapolis – muslim cab drivers weren’t picking up customers who carried alcohol, so special sharia-compliant cabs were created. I could give you many more examples, but I believe I made my point clear.
“ Are you so unpatriotic that you think our own armed forces are infiltrated with Islamic extremists?”
You mean, with people like Sergeant Hasan Karim Akbar, Major Nadik Malik Hasan or Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl? Yeah, not a whiff of “islamic extremists” in the US armed forces, and no need to check the loyalties of the muslims currently serving, even if they’re exchanging emails with the imam of known terrorists – that would be islamophobic. And unpatriotic, apparently. For whatever reason.
gravenimage says
Excellent rejoinder to the absurd “Brandon”, Angemon. You covered all the points.
Myxlplik says
It’s pretty clear that Obama and our military is taking marching orders from the Muslim Brotherhood, who probably gave some input into the design of the patch.
It looks a lot like a European falchion to me though, rather than a scimitar. Perhaps some of the artists in the military covertly trying to subvert the subversion?
Myxlplik says
Not saying the intent of the design isn’t inspired by Muslim Brotherhood moles invited by Obama to advise him, but the sword looks a lot like an archers falchion, which quite possibly would have been wielded by European Crusaders.
Just saying
Myxlplik says
A good image of a European Falchion.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=antique+falchion&imgrc=pzu5evj3nO17WM%3A
Myxlplik says
I get this hilt style for antique scimitar
https://www.google.com/search?q=scimitar&biw=704&bih=704&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMInuaQ57GdyAIVUi-ICh2rjg3y#tbm=isch&q=antique+scimitar&imgrc=NRjJcYzodpUHFM%3A
The folks who made the patch duped the duper
Myxlplik says
Go to about the 4 min mark on this video, where the guy talks about Eastern European Falchions, look at the hilt. Compare it to the patch, then look at the scimitar on the Muslim Brotherhood symbol.
http://youtu.be/pp_mUQDEB5A
citycat says
Muslims i’ve met have had great belief in the magic of symbols. Pentacles etc,
Is it some sort of sympathetic override of symbols in order to own them, or to own names like ISIS the ancient goddess type person.
I thought it was usually the other way round where Islam takes over the infidels symbols, not the infidels doing it for Islam, as appears to be the case here.
In Engeland the police logo is two overlaping squares in a circle, which is now also an Islamic logo in Engeland.
It’s quite childish really, which is an insult to children really.
It is all so much out of hand, morally speaking.
The level of humanity seems to be descending, or maybe it’s just more visible nowadays, no, it’s going down, or being bled of goodness by something via humans.
Ralph says
No strategy, people in intelligence deliberately misleading the public, millions of dollars wasted training so called moderates who are actually the enemy, and we thought Watergate was a scandal! Nixon’s crimes seem almost juvenile in comparison to the Foreign Policy Catastrophes negotiated by the Three Stooges Obama, Hilary, and Kerry and of course the other Walking Brain Deads who share the same Neo Marxist Multicultural Fantasy . Well at least Ahmed the Clock Dissector will remember the glory days of the Obama administration!
While the thousands of murdered Christian Martyrs whose blood is on his hands, will be comforted and rewarded by the Holy Trinity for all Eternity!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/4ISTbT-R9hs
I love my country says
Putin has hit the nail on the head. We need a united world. Forget your differences, the main aim is to defeat the powers of darkness. If the USA thinks its policies are working, why the mess?
The Dark Ages – coming from a mosque near you.