Editor’s Note: On May 16, Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker issued the following statement: “Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Qur’an abuse at Guantanamo Bay.”

Fascinating!

You can now flush holy books yourself at flushaholybook.com
Take your pick of the major religions and flush it down.

There has been multiple reports on the tactic of “flushing the Koran

down the toliet”, if you guys ever did research beyond the “talking

points” you would find find the truth. Don’t be afraid of the truth it

will set you free from the brainwashing you have received. from the

philly inquirer,

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/10685611.htm

“Some detainees complained of religious humiliation, saying guards had

defaced their copies of the Koran and, in one case, had thrown it in a

toilet, said Kristine Huskey [an attorney in Washington, D.C.], who

interviewed clients late last month. Others said that pills were hidden

in their food and that people came to their cells claiming to be their

attorneys, to gain information.”

and from the Human Rights Watch

Report, http://hrw.org/backgrounder/usa/gitmo1004/gitmo1004.pdf

“72.They were never given prayer mats and initially they didn’t get a

Koran. When the Korans were provided, they were kicked and thrown about

by the guards and on occasion thrown in the buckets used for the

toilets. This kept happening. When it happened it was always said to be

an accident but it was a recurrent theme.”

and

“74. Asif says that `it was impossible to pray because initially we did

not know the direction to pray, but also given that we couldn’t move and

the harassment from the guards, it was simply not feasible. The

behaviour of the guards towards our religious practices as well as the

Koran was also, in my view, designed to cause us as much distress as

possible. They would kick the Koran, throw it into the toilet and

generally disrespect it. It is clear to me that the conditions in our

cells and our general treatment were designed by the officers in charge

of the interrogation process to “soften us up”‘.”

C’mon, Roger, you’re not that naive.

These clowns don’t have a conscience.

This is an interesting coincidence. Although on in a much broader scope, we yesterday questioned what skewed liberal media coverage does to National Security. Completely unrelated to the situation in Afghanistan, the media is perhaps impacting the security of the United States. Just like you can’t yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater for fun…

http://www.rightviews.com/article.php?id=307

It does warrant discussion.

http://www.RightViews.com

There have been so many unanswered “provocations” against Christians that a guy can hardly keep track of them all.

Muslims are simply expected to act like violent children, and when they do, the sensitivity policy go on a manhunt for whoever “caused” the latest Islamic riot/terrorist attack/war/murder/assassination.

Meanwhile, when Christians verbally complain about deliberate assaults on their beliefs, they are referred to as extremists, or theocrats, or, and I just LOVE this, “jihadis.”

All from people who almost never are able to muster any real condemnation for real jihadis.

You may not care if it is true of false, but I do. If Newsweek is spreading unproved rumors, then they are responsible for the consequences. It’s the old fire in the theater thing. Now, if these ‘facts’ are simply part of a plaintiff’s case that has not been settled, then they are simply rumors. I personally found many of the things reported by the released Brits rather lurid and bizarre. I no longer remember the details, but they were reported in the English press. However, we really aren’t in a position to judge the Newsweek article because the source is anonymous. That is just unacceptable.

Bye the bye, did I ever mention that my kindergarten teacher was worried about my mental health because I was always asking her if things were true? I suspect she was very “progressive” for her time and attached great value to imaginary things.

If, however, the Gitmo lawsuit is the source material for the Newsweek piece, wouldn’t they say so instead of attributing to “sources”?

We’re getting too caught up in the It’s True, no It’s False thing here with the assumption that if it’s true, well, it’s a bad thing.