The baseball cap says 'kafir' in Arabic, which is correctly translated as infidel. A synonym is unbeliever. I believe that Islamist insurgents in Iraq fighting against the US occupation would have used this term fairly routinely to describe the US military forces. I did not know that (some) US troops had embraced the term.
Just plain weird, to rest your sleeping baby in a red kufiya with gun shells and some sort of weapon behind him/her....
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Hi Ted - the whole "infidel" thing with the US military is strange, and to me, very unsettling. It's been written about and is a "hot topic" in circles where the US military and Middle East studies intersect. I've written about it here:
http://carryingthegun.com/2012/03/26/enough-with-the-infidel-stuff-seriously-stop/
And it was written about more recently here:
http://www.thestate.ae/americas-new-kaffirs-insecure-white-folks/
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