Posted on 05/08/2005 4:42:36 AM PDT by Cornpone
Pakistani officials say they are "deeply dismayed" over reports that the Koran was desecrated at the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. The latest edition of the American Newsweek magazine said such tactics were used to rattle suspects.
It says that US personnel on one occasion flushed a copy of Islam's most holy book "down the toilet".
Pakistan, a conservative Muslim nation, is also a key US ally in its war against terrorism.
'Highly objectionable'
Pakistani foreign office spokesman, Jalil Abbas Jilani, told the AFP news agency Pakistan was also concerned about "the highly objectionable and regrettable treatment meted out to the detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre".
Mr Jilani said the reported act of sacrilege had shocked people of every faith around the world.
"The government of Pakistan condemns the incident and demands that an inquiry should be conducted to bring to justice the perpetrators of this shameful act," he said.
Insulting the Koran and Islam's Prophet Mohammed is regarded as blasphemy and punishable by death in Pakistan.
In an interview last week with the BBC's Haroon Rashid, Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost, an Afghan prisoner recently released from the Cuban detention centre, said a number of Arab prisoners had still not spoken to their investigators after three years to protest at the desecration of the Koran by guards.
Mr Dost also said inmates' beards were shaved and the prisoners were shouted at during interrogations.
The US is holding about 520 inmates at Guantanamo Bay, many of them al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects captured in Pakistan and Afghanistan following the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US.
I would have flushed it one page at a time....after using the pages thoroughly.
It must be a pretty thick book...I doubt it was flushed down a toilet, unless it was one of those $20,000 DoD toilets.
..and the panties. What about the panties?
LOL! Flush twice - It's a long way to Iran!
Heh..it depends on the definitions of "flushed" and "toilet".
I've seen some parta-pots that you could "flush" a box of Korans down with no problem.
porta-pot
Clearly Flushing the Qu'ran down the crapper a FAAAAAAR worse than decapitating a hostage on video.
The horror.... the horror.......
SHeesh.
Hey Jalil Abbas Jilani, shut up or we won't sell you the Harpoons and Sidewinders.
Um, wait nevermind..yes we will.
Ashes to ashes is said at Christian funerals, I would think hat crap to crap would apply for the Koran.
The inhumanity!
Whenever I read stuff like this, I can't help but think about how they're not supposed to worship images. And yet the Koran in the context of this article is an image. Disrespectful of the religion,ehhhh maybe, punishable by death? It's an image of the words Allah and they shouldn't be worshipping it.
Again this is an example of the firey words and twists to incite the muslim people.
Be fair. Putting a crucifix in a glass of urine is the same sort of thing and if we're going to get indignant about the one, we ought to allow Muslims' indignation about the other.
Doesn't bother me one whit.
Urban legend intended to incite the ignorant, emotive masses...there are countless unsubstantiated versions of this lie to be found on the internet...and its always the Pakistanis who seem to be getting insulted...TS
BBC: 23 May 2001, Japan investigates Koran desecration
The police in the north-western Japanese prefecture of Toyama say they are investigating a number of anti-Muslim incidents including the alleged theft and destruction of a copy of the Koran -- an incident which has angered Pakistanis living in Japan.
The Muslim holy book was found damaged with pages torn out, outside a Pakistani-owned car dealership, along with derogatory leaflets slandering Muslims.
The Pakistani embassy has appealed for the arrest of anyone involved in the desecration of the Koran, which was allegedly stolen from a meeting-palce in a nearby town where local Muslims gather to pray. Police are examining whether there is a connection with a group of right-wing extremists, who last month drove vehicles rigged with loudspeakers through the streets of Toyama demanding that Pakistanis leave town.
>>Mr Dost also said inmates' beards were shaved and the prisoners were shouted at during interrogations. <<
The horror. The horror. Oh, the humanity.
Yeah...you're right...I hadn't thought of Port-O-San types. You could drive a truck through some of them. LOL!
screw conservative muslamies in pakistan
Pakistani officials should be reminded that much of what is said by the U.S. media is incomplete, inaccurate, or completely false.
Disrespectful of the religion, ehhhh maybe, punishable by death?
But, I am of the belief that all these things are just things. Even the Bible talks about all things will pass away, no humans, no earth, no written word... One should be of the faith that the 'desecration' is to the object, if the belief system is true, the act of descration can't affect the God.
Flush the Koran down an Algore low-flow toity? Ha!
But that assumes these 'officials' are rational...
The Koran is useful only for toilet paper and I hereby insult it to the fullest extent possible.
And the "prophet" Mo Mo was a child molesting, goat lover whose only spiritual guidence was from his father, the devil. I hereby insult Mohammed, also to the fullest extent possible.
Pakistan can come and get me.
"Mr Dost also said inmates' beards were shaved and the prisoners were shouted at during interrogations."
WoW! The horror! They were shouted at? tsk,tsk,tsk.
I just may have to go out and buy a koran and use it to pick up the dog poop.
Double whammy...dogs are unclean animals in Islam and not to be touched...how sweet the thought...
Why waste your money to buy the 'book'? Go to your nearest Islamic center, mosque, ACLU, or any other Islaminatzie whacko organization, tell them you're 'interested', and get the free tissue-paper-book at the enemy's expense!
Oh, and one more thing, take your gun with you, and don't give anyone any address.
Maybe they put panties on the Koran? THAT would be rude.
Award the soldiers who did it an ARCOM (look it up). THAT would be appropriate!
Insulting the Koran and Islam's Prophet Mohammed is regarded as blasphemy and punishable by death in Pakistan.
How can one insult a lying, murdering, thieving, child molesting goat lover and pederast who makes up a cult with a book so obtuse and unintelligible that his own twisted followers can't even make it out? Seems to me that if telling the truth about an uncouth criminal charlatan who had the sexual tastes of a perverted psychopath is blasphemy, then these folks need to find a better cult to sell their souls to.
Nothing.
He already told her twice.
Oh, I agree and I wasn't aiming my criticism at you, but at the many Freepers who wax wroth over insults to our holy things and then mock Moslem indignation over similar insults to theirs. Whether things are 'holy' or just things, that much blindness to the other guy's viewpoint is a block to the eventual reconciliation of Moslems and the West.
How about the scum that flew planes into buildings in the name of Islam? Did they defame the Koran?
They will believe any lie that leads to hatred. But you have to give them a break on this one. It is not as obvious to them that a book is too big to flush down a toilet, as most of them have never seen a toilet.
It's a 7th century thingie...
On the contrary. Since the MSM ridiculed us for expressing outrage about "PC", Gitmo mooselimbs can eat sh!t, or the Koran, whichever is served first.
If we should "Be fair.", show us where the BBC reported that "PC" had officials "deeply dismayed", "highly objectionable", "[Vatican] is a key US ally in its war against terrorism", "act of sacrilege had shocked people of every faith around the world", "act is regarded as blasphemy" -- and all within the same article.
Furthermore, "PC" was partially funded by a $15,000 NEA grant. If our tax dollars are going to be used in such a way, then I fully support $15,000 to be used in the production of award medals for Gitmo interrogators who came up with the idea.
"Mr Dost also said inmates' beards were shaved and the prisoners were shouted at during interrogations. "
Ohhh, the poor f*king dearies.
I'm thinking an MSM... ARCOM would be for the beard shaving.
Good point. Also, the korans should be stocked as TP by the QM....just so there's no doubt.
Take your threats back to DU.
Bingo! Impossible to flush a book down a toilet.
so long troll
Ooohhhh, this is going to get good.
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