Posted on 05/08/2005 7:53:41 AM PDT by veronica
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".
Freed Guantanamo prisoners have complained of ill-treatment
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.
Just let me know where I can buy the freepin' things.
Mr Dost also said inmates' beards were shaved and the prisoners were shouted at during interrogations.
Stop! Stop! You're breaking my heart, the tears...
Shouted at, oh NO!
In case you had any doubt as to whose side the LSM is on...
Not 1 Pakistani officials has said they are "deeply dismayed" over video tapes showing Americans and nationals from other coalition countries being beheaded by Islamic fascists in Iraq.
Ha!
All kinds of interesting things could be done with a case of korans including picking up dog poop.
Anyone have any stories concerning treatment of Christians and the Bible in Pakistan?
When the muslim terrorists took over the Church of the Nativity they used it for a toilet.
Well, that's just wrong. There's a real risk of clogging the toilet.
Better: tear off pages and use them as toilet paper. Less risk of clogs, and one puts the paper to good use.
"...shocked people of every faith around the world."
Well, not all of us, I mean, I could care less.
"Mr Dost also said ... the prisoners were shouted at during interrogations."
Sounds like a typical day at the office to me...
These people are major league whiners
Malaysia
Christians detained
Police arrested two Americans for allegedly distributing Christian religious pamphlets to Muslims. The two men were detained and a local court had ordered them to be held for 14 days. "We want to find out if they had breached any regulations in Malaysia," police said. It is an offense in Malaysia to try to convert Muslims away from their faith. The prime minister said earlier this month there was no ban on Bibles published in Malay but they must be stamped with the words "Not for Muslims."
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/04/28/2003252308
That's not in Pakistan, got the wrong article, but just goto any search engine, type int "Christian arrests Pakistan" or something like that. You'll get a boat load of info back.
Jeff
And we find it "highly objectionable" that Pakistanis burned the US Flag and pictures of our President after 9/11 as shown on American TV.
But most "objectionable" is the killing of 3,000 US civilians. Most "objectionable" is AQ Khan's Nuclear Supermarket for Muslim terror regimes.
The first thing that popped to mind is providing education next to every canine comfort station --- fire hydrants...
Most pakistanis are asking "What's a toilet?"
Well, that does it. We may have to have them printed in the U.S. (in arabic, of course) so long as they are stamped, "Not for human beings".
Went to "Ask.jeeves.com" this was my response.
Your search for pakistan toilet did not match with any Picture results.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
"Pakistani officials say they are "deeply dismayed" over reports that the Koran was desecrated at the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay"
Fine, we will ship them over to Pak torture chambers, where their joints can all be broken and their heads lobbed off. But hey, at least they won't be offended over some pieces of paper used for arse wipe.
They should have Koran toilet paper printed to make it easier, and more water soluable.
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