The U.S. Military Should Hand Out Qurans in Afghanistan as a Good-Will Gesture (He's serious!)

The Daily Beast ^ | March 1, 2012 | Richard Miniter

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ne plus ultra Dhimmi.

[februus]

With extra Smallpox, please!

[TribalPrincess2U]

OMG! This gets more serious every moment.

We are in some evil time warp and on the edge of an abyss.

[Bidimus1]

why don’t we wrap all our APC’s in KAR.. Koran Appliqué Armor ? and see how many of our foes no longer care about burning a koran ?

[DeFault User]

the Taliban often instructed illiterate Afghans to save any paper with printing on it

Does anybody in government see a problem with distributing books to illiterates?

[Bidimus1]

oops KAA or QAR..

[John Leland 1789]

The more I hear about this, the more I think the burning of the Qurans was deliberate.

[GeronL]

I don’t think the military allows non-Muslims to touch Korans

[DesertRhino]

Wait just a minute,,, i say we do it!! (Of course,, first we make all kinds of fun strategic changes in several verses)

[USAF80]

They will riot and protest if we hand out korans. The koran has to be an official version made in Saudi Arabia. At least that’s the BS I was told.

[DManA]

Why stop there. Have the Federal Government hand out Korans in Washington. Put on on every Senate and House desk. Put a minaret on the White House. Maybe they’ll like us then (or come up with a new set of demands).

[USAF80]

They claim prisoners were using them to send messages. If that was the case the classified shredders can obliterate anything written so you can’t tell what it is. It leaves sawdust. Even the unclassified shredders can mutilate paperwork.

I think it is a set up.

[rfreedom4u]

What good would this do since about 80% of the population of Afghanistan can’t read the damn book anyway because they are illiterate?

[2ndDivisionVet]

We had very expensive German-made cross-cut shredders. The documents could be the highest form of Top Secret, yet you could take it home as packing material after it was shredded. There was absolutely no way to put the document back together, unlike strip shredders.

[USAF80]

Don’t give these clowns any ideas. I already had to sit thru the “Homos are normal” training.

[DesertRhino]

That book should get no more respect than a copy of Mein Kampf,,
It’s stunning to see our Army show such deep respect to the gutter level values of the enemy. They need a review of the US Army,, circa May/June 1945.
This bunch of tee-totaling, marathon running, MBA, Harvard JFK school of government grads that we call Army officers are an embarrassment.

[DesertRhino]

That book should get no more respect than a copy of Mein Kampf,,
It’s stunning to see our Army show such deep respect to the gutter level values of the enemy. They need a review of the US Army,, circa May/June 1945.
This bunch of tee-totaling, marathon running, MBA, Harvard JFK school of government grads that we call Army officers are an embarrassment.

[DesertRhino]

That book should get no more respect than a copy of Mein Kampf,,
It’s stunning to see our Army show such deep respect to the gutter level values of the enemy. They need a review of the US Army,, circa May/June 1945.
This bunch of tee-totaling, marathon running, MBA, Harvard JFK school of government grads that we call Army officers are an embarrassment.

[Steel Wolf]

Those shredders do exist, but we used burn pits in Afghanistan and Iraq. I personally set foot in almost every SCIF in both countries, and I don’t recall seeing any of the high end paper shredders you’d see at big strategic sites.

[USAF80]

I got involved in Islam when I was in the ME. The koran is written so you only need a basic knowledge of reading to recite it. Most have no idea what it says. They just recite the verses. I have an official translated version that I received as a gift when I left the ME.