Acceptable throughout "the Muslim world":
Posted on 06/11/2005 3:18:44 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The leader of a U.S. Muslim lobby group met with Republican Sen. John Warner this week to demand a full Senate investigation into alleged incidents of Quran desecration.
Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, also asked the Virginia senator to support Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., in calling on the Bush administration to shut down the U.S. military detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Bray contends the Department of Defense's denial of the May 9 Quran-in-toilet report by Newsweek, which the magazine retracted, contrasts with subsequent statements by both Defense and the White House, acknowledging various allegations.
Bray noted the White House attested to a "few isolated incidents" committed by a "few individuals" such as a soldier deliberately kicking a copy of the Quran, an interrogator stepping on a Quran, a Quran soaked in water, and in one instance, splashed with a guard's urine.
"None of the above actions are acceptable within the Muslim American community and neither have they been found to be acceptable throughout the Muslim world," Bray said. "Much needs to be done to ameliorate what has been an American image disaster within the Muslim world."
Deadly anti-American riots were sparked from Afghanistan to Malaysia to the Palestinian Authority by the news weekly's May 9 report that U.S. military investigators had found evidence interrogators placed copies of Islam's holy book in washrooms and had flushed one down the toilet to get inmates to talk.
But the magazine later said its government source indicated he could not be sure that he saw an account of the toilet reference in a military report on abuse at Guantanamo.
Along with an investigation that would punish any wrongdoing, Bray's group demands creation of legislation and enforcement of existing laws to ensure "future acts of desecration of the Quran, or any other holy scripture, does not occur."
Bray urged constituents to take part in a "blitz" to call, fax or e-mail Warner's office.
The Freedom Foundation is the public affairs arm of the Muslim American Society, which calls itself America's largest grassroots Muslim organization with more than 50 chapters nationwide.
Bray, who has called the U.S. war on terrorism a "war against Islam," joined several other Muslims in October 2001 to pray in front of the State Department and denounce U.S. military action in Afghanistan.
His group organized a May 2003 event in which Islamic leaders demanded "an end to the mounting attack on the civil rights of Muslims in America."
He said at the time, "We must be willing to trust in Allah, intensify our dawah, make our voices heard in the streets, the ballot boxes, the cash registers and the courts, and only then will federal government officials be willing to sit down and deal with us in a serious manner. Short of that, the American Muslim leadership is fooling itself and the community."
"Dawah" is commonly understood by Muslims as inviting others to Islam, or missionary work.
In his book "American Jihad," Steve Emerson wrote that at an October 2000 rally, Bray was seen "jubilantly" expressing support for the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah, along with Abdurrahman Alamoudi of the American Muslim Council, who is now serving a 23-year prison sentence on terror-related charges.
Three weeks prior to that event, according to Emerson, Bray played the tambourine as one of the speakers sang, while the crowd repeated: "Al-Aqsa [Mosque] is calling us, let's all go into jihad, and throw stones at the face of the Jews [sic]."
When are patriotic Americans going to begin demanding that our government STOP kowtowing and groveling to these opportunistic Muslim groups in our country?
As Barbara J. Stock said in the title of a recent blockbuster article: "STOP APOLOGIZING TO ISLAM!!" Enough is enough! These groups have seized upon an untruth, a red herring for the sole purpose of pushing the Muslim-Islamic agenda in America, and our tolerance of this psychological warfare must end - NOW!
The truth of this matter is that a Gitmo detainee, disgruntled with his own religion tore pages from the book and tried to flush them down the toilet! That was the germination of this entire story, but now we've got Muslim lobbyists trying to dictate policy (tail wagging dog), while refusing to acknowledge how this story began - with a Muslim who was disgusted with Islam and its teaching.........and what it had done to him and his life!!
Char
Nuts!
About 3-4% of Iraqi's are Christian, the overwhelming percentage are Catholic. From the Iraqi Catholics I spoke to, they are accepted as any other Iraqi. Most wear crosses around their neck so they are easy to spot.
I think what the Senate ought to investigate is the continuing myth that Islam is a religion, why it continues to get tax exempt status when it is an active political movement and why we are continuing to allow these new age fascists into our country instead of deporting them back to their country of origin.
I demand a probe of US Muslims...and I demand that Gitmo stay open and occupied.
Who are they going to probe with a kuran?
Acceptable throughout "the Muslim world":
I agree! I also demand a probe into the beheading and shooting of innocent people, and into why no U.S. Muslims seem to be condeming that type of behavior.
We need to begin to get serious and undertake a major expansion of Gitmo, maybe a Gitmo north and south, as in the Arctic. Maybe extablish a couple of major dumps for qurans down there where the sun don't shine.
PLEEeeezz enough of this silly whining over the "concerns" of camel sniffing cavemen bent on our destruction.
Just leave it at that. Keep government out of the issue.
I can't even belive that the idea and the amount of hot air expelled towards shutting down Gitmo is even brought up!
Give me a break. Let it rest already, you dorks. It ain't gonna happen, in your wildest, commie moose-limb dreams.
/so there.
Bush better take off his lacy silk panties and get on the mexicans and the ragheads...he is making nice and giving this country away faster than a snowball melts in phoenix in august.
The argument is that we're better than them, or are we? Any desicration of any HolyBook, or any religion, is inflammatory and stupid.
Maybe we should be IQ testing anyone who would do something that would dismantle all of the good will are finest young men and women are trying to achieve throughout the world, by doing something ridiculous to a book that means nothing to them, but a lot to others.
Wasn't one of the outrages in Afghanistan that the Talliban desicrated Buddhist statues?
Get ready for an investigation. All an enemy has to do is demand that a Republican Senator do something, and he'll do it as if his life depended on it.
Why is this RINO even giving them the time of day?
All I want to know is how many of these Muslims living in America have enlisted in the United States armed forces since 9/11?
Other than that, I couldn't give a rat's arse what they "demand" because one more Muslim 9/11 type attack in America and the whole lot of them will have to pack up bag and baggage and go back to whatever hellhole they originated from.
Point, Game, Set, Match!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
You just answered your own question. :)
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