An Army veteran is suing the state of Michigan for denying his request for a vanity license plate that says “infidel.”
Michael Matwyuk, 57, was an Army sergeant who served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005 with an engineer detachment, the Army Times reported. He said he and his fellow troops often were called “infidel” by insurgents as an insult.
“We embraced it, we joked about it, we laughed about it, we called each other ‘infidel,’” Matwyuk told the Army Times. “We’re infidels, we’re absolutely that and we were there who did not subscribe to the doctrine or belief system [the enem]Y was trying to impose. [The Blaze] Read more
