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Dismay at US Koran 'desecration'
BBC ^ | 8 May 2005 | BBC News - World Edition

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.


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To: Petronski; USF; Cornpone; CarrotAndStick; quidnunc; Owl_Eagle

Your votes please, is Mr. Bovine_Excrement a CAIR shill? Are you impressed by the huge outpouring of slogans and catch-phases with virtually no significant content?


101 posted on 05/18/2005 2:20:18 PM PDT by Alouette (Muslims bite the hand that feeds them, and kiss the boot that kicks them.)
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To: Alouette; All
"Your votes please, is Mr. Bovine_Excrement a CAIR shill?"

Need you ask? Unless of course he is that guy who wrote that, "the victims of 9/11 were little Eichmann's." You think? Is that you Ward? I think that talk about Shamanism may have given you away...hehehehe

104 posted on 05/18/2005 2:30:37 PM PDT by Cornpone (Aging Warrior -- Aim High -- Who Dares Wins)
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To: Mr_Bovinity

So now you're angry that I've cut through the massive pantload you dumped here, and you're in "personal attack" mode.


105 posted on 05/18/2005 2:34:08 PM PDT by Alouette (Muslims bite the hand that feeds them, and kiss the boot that kicks them.)
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To: Mr_Bovinity
Mr_Bovinity wrote:
Christians have also executed or imprisoned their own people for “heresy”, even great thinkers whose ideas the Church came to adopt (can you say equality for women? Oh, yea, the world is still square).

Well we have not resorted to savagery against our own in a few hundred years or so.

Regardless of that, the facts are the fanatical savages of the Muslim religion of today are just killing for killings sake with no rhyme or reason.
These terrorists are absolutely insane and are nothing more than serial and spree killers egged on by ignorant satanic mullahs.
The only way to cope with people like this is to plant them six feet under.

However, if we have to deal with the savage terrorist Muslims, then we must deal with them the same way we deal with animals. Euthanize those that have become rabid, spay, and neuter those who have no redeeming value and hold tight security on the rest and not allow them to push more beggars out into the world. For Your Information: Did you also know that your federal tax dollars go to pay the fees of scumbag, ambulance chasing ACLU lawyers when they file suit against traditional America such as the Boy Scouts or places displaying the cross. Fox News calls it a CASH COW for the ACLU. Hey Moe, I cannot get a job or support myself as a scumbag lawyer. Thats OK Curly, Larry told me that you could make a lot of money from the government by suing traditional Americans. Please call your congressional representative and get this stopped.
106 posted on 05/18/2005 3:05:31 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (LL THE)
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To: Alouette
Your votes please, is Mr. Bovine_Excrement a CAIR shill? Are you impressed by the huge outpouring of slogans and catch-phases with virtually no significant content?

I think he's either Ward Churchill or Norman Seigal.

107 posted on 05/18/2005 3:49:42 PM PDT by Former Dodger ( "Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." --Einstein)
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To: Mr_Bovinity
WHOA!!

ANY "Religion" whose adherents are Permitted to Advocate the MASS MURDER OF INNOCENTS represents an inherent EVIL.

Hitler & Stalin "come to Mind."

Before we go "off the Cliff" of "Moral Relativism;" we NEED to address fhe Possibility that there ARE "ABSOLUTE VALUES of 'RIGHT & WRONG!'"

IF, by inaction, or by deliberate negligence, "Islam" permits "The Slaughter of Innocents," then, "Islam" is COMPLICIT in that Murder.

Sorry, Guys; there are NO "Disinterested Third Parties" when "Ideologically Condoned Murder" is "Afoot!"

By NOT Lifting a Finger to Protect the "Innocent" from "Ideologically-Justified Murder," "Islam" is COMPLICIT!!

"Christianity" LONG AGO abandoned such behavior.

There is NO "Moral Equivalence" here; Modern "Islam" contnues to Condone Murder.

Doc

108 posted on 05/18/2005 4:23:43 PM PDT by Doc On The Bay
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To: Alouette
Are you impressed by the huge outpouring of slogans and catch-phases with virtually no significant content?

NO. As I mentioned earlier, there's nothing there that I have not heard before.

See, I waded thru some of his rambling diatribes, and sometime just before I lost interest and fell asleep at my desk as Mr.B descended into another round of Christian bashing and whines about Western civilization in general, a few things did manage to catch my eye.

One of my favorite comments was:

First, to those who make accusation of my being apologists or think I support fundamentalist Islam, you either must learn to read or to understand what you read. I know it is easier for you to believe it is true then actually have to think about what is written and see there is a point. I have said a number of times that there is no excuse for extremist behavior, much like there is no excuse for your lack of comprehension.

This comes from someone who totally seems to miss the point in what I wrote in post #94 about the acts of Muslims that are emulating the examples of the mass murdering pedophile MuhamMAD himself or reformation, enlightenment, bidah, or even Islams role as a political system and then goes to on to post yet more drivel about things that happened in the past that have little to do with the exmaple of Christ.

After that, I stopped reading, but something kept nagging at me, and I finally figured out what it was. It was the way he devoted most of its energy to bashing Christians while dodging the questions that Cornpone and others has asked about acts of Muslims today. It was then that I asked myself why he decided to come here and lecture us about history when there are Islamic sites to go to where intolerance is being preached today, and airing the problems at those sites or within Islam instead.

Take for example, one of my old favorites, the hugely popular mainstream mainstream Islamic site, Islam Q+A. Their response to the simple question "Why can’t the Jews and Muslims live together in peace?

Hurayrah, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The Hour [the Day of Judgement] will not begin until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. A Jew will hide behind a rock or a tree, and the rock or tree will say, ‘O Muslim, O slave of Allaah! There is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!’ – except for the gharqad (box thorn), for it is one of the trees of the Jews.” (Reported by Muslim, 2922).

How do you suppose you find "common ground" with such people or the vile ideology that provoked such a response in this day and age? Would I be expected to find "common ground" with Hitler and his fascists? I think not.

So on to your other question:

Your votes please, is Mr. Bovine_Excrement a CAIR shill?

I have to vote in the affirmative, because if he didn't wander in here intending to be one, he's doing a fine job of it anyway. Still, this Ward Churchill thing has me thinking... ;oP

109 posted on 05/18/2005 4:36:37 PM PDT by USF (I see your Jihad and raise you a Crusade ™ © ®)
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To: Alouette; Cornpone; Land_of_Lincoln_John; Chgogal; evad; American in Israel; Grut; Bombardier

How in heavens name did I get on this newbie's ping list?! It is clearly evident that we need some vikings in here.

And kudos to all for debunking him every step of the way.


110 posted on 05/18/2005 5:04:39 PM PDT by EBH
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To: Mr_Bovinity; Cornpone
I have yet to anyone address the desecration of freedom.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

111 posted on 05/18/2005 5:06:47 PM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: EBH
"How in heavens name did I get on this newbie's ping list?!"

Sorry, that's my fault. I thought I'd share the joy...Cornpone

112 posted on 05/18/2005 5:09:27 PM PDT by Cornpone (Aging Warrior -- Aim High -- Who Dares Wins)
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To: Cornpone

LOL, I got through the first ping and quit reading the drival until I got near the end of the thread where some of the responses were very admirable. You all did a good job with him.


113 posted on 05/18/2005 5:14:16 PM PDT by EBH
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To: expatguy; Mr_Bovinity
Ok expatguy,

I'll do it indirectly for the benefit of Mr Bovinity. I suggest he read this article on dhimmitude.

http://www.dhimmitude.org/archive/dhimmitude%20of%20the%20west%20aug02.html

Then I suggest he check out your blog....Regards

114 posted on 05/18/2005 5:30:40 PM PDT by Cornpone (Aging Warrior -- Aim High -- Who Dares Wins)
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To: Mr_Bovinity; Cornpone; EBH; CarrotAndStick; expatguy; Petronski; jb6; Alouette; quidnunc; ...
"Why did the Christian nations allow Japan to massacre the Chinese and Koreans? (and for that matter allow Hitler to slaughter the Jews?)"

Sir,

Your logic in almost every sentence is unfathomable. I will address your phrase in the parentheses and then go on from there.

Eleven to twelve million pour souls perished in those camps during the long five year battle to destroy Hitler. My great uncle who was Dutch and not a Jew was one of those souls. Of the millions that were murdered by Hitler approximate 50% were Jewish. My recollection could be faulty but I don't remember any Muslim country declaring war on Hitler.

My question to you, why didn't the Muslim countries come to the rescue of the Jews and non-Jews in Germany?

Why can I as a Christian woman NOT travel freely to and from Saudi Arabia? Why do males of non-Muslim faiths have to sign a document stating that they will accept the death penalty if caught with alcohol or pornography? Why can't Saudi women vote or even drive?

Why didn't Christians riot like the Muslim barbarians when the following happened?

http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp490.htm


Why doesn't the MSM report the following? And why in heaven's name should we Americans tolerate such bigotry and hate in PC silence?

"PA SERMON: MUSLIMS WILL RULE THE WORLD, JEWS ARE A VIRUS
In a Friday sermon (khutba) broadcast by official Palestinian Authority television on May 13, 2005, Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris told the Muslim brothers that one day Islam will rule America, Britain, and the entire world—and wipe out the Jews.


"We have ruled the world before, and by Allah, the day will come when we will rule the entire world again. The day will come when we will rule America. The day will come when we will rule Britain and the entire world – except for the Jews. The Jews will not enjoy a life of tranquility under our rule, because they are treacherous by nature, as they have been throughout history. The day will come when everything will be relived of the Jews - even the stones and trees which were harmed by them. Listen to the Prophet Muhammad, who tells you about the evil end that awaits Jews. The stones and trees will want the Muslims to finish off every Jew."

(MEMRI is to be applauded and congratulated for their work in bringing out the truth about Arab media and what’s being preached in the mosques of the Islamic world—work that Western mainstream media should be doing, but isn’t.)"

Why should we apologize to the Muslim world for THEIR HATE and BIGOTRY that has left almost each Muslim ruled country in poverty, illiteracy and cultural backwardness? Why do we Americans have to change our behavior when our soldiers are dragged dead and almost naked through the streets of Mogadishu, when our Embassies get blown up, when one of our navy ships barely survives a SNEEK attack, when our buildings get attacked and thousands of civilians and soldiers die? Why should we accept this in silence?

No, each and everyone of us who cherishes freedom needs to stand tall and firm against such hatred and bigotry. We have to be as brave as Ms. Agha

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18069

115 posted on 05/18/2005 6:40:51 PM PDT by Chgogal
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To: kalee

Give it time.....the way the Socialists kiss up to every enemy we've ever had, they'll make dhimmis of us yet. (Not me, though....I fight back.)


116 posted on 05/18/2005 7:11:05 PM PDT by Bombardier (Islam is the cancer, destroying it is the cure.)
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To: Bombardier

Hey...Bombardier...Love that shot from Lackland...brings back old memories:)...Cornpone


117 posted on 05/18/2005 7:25:34 PM PDT by Cornpone (Aging Warrior -- Aim High -- Who Dares Wins)
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To: USF
"It's amazing that he has to reach back so far to try and justify the actions of those who follow MuhamMADS example today."

And what's truly amazing is the quantity of twisted history he has access to, almost as if he's writing from the bowels of an islamic disinformation institution, with unlimited time to devote to the dissemination of lies, which he does so very professionally; pardon me, but I suspect Mr Bovine excrement is being remunerated quite handsomely...don't step in anything smelly on your way out...
118 posted on 05/18/2005 7:31:00 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Understand Islam. Understand Evil. Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD link My Page.)
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To: Marano NYC

>"You left out my good friends the Assyrians who were also victims of the Ottoman genocide."<

Not to mention the 1 to 2.5 million Armenian Christians who were deliberately and ruthlessly disenfranchised by the Muslime Turk Ottomans in about 1915, and sent on a march across the land which saw them raped, murdered, robbed, beaten and subjected to the weather conditions because they were homeless and legally no one in the country could give them shelter (not that any would have done so anyway).

No citizen of Ottoman Turkey or Armenia was prosecuted, upbraided, or even sternly lectured for their cruel treatment of the Armenian Christians, and to my knowledge no government of that land has tendered any kind of apology whatsoever. I have more to add, but that is enough for this small subject in this posting. SUffice it to say - Genocide and desecration are things the Muhammadans have shown a particular talent and predilection for through the first 1,324 years of their "religion's" history.

I use the word religion advisedly, since all indicators point toward the faithful practice of muhammadanism being in fact a bloodthirsty death cult based upon a "holy book" that is a plagiarised and derivative collection of lies, perversions and appeals to mankind's basest nature, rather than a peacefully rooted life-transforming religion, founded upon a true G_d {and real prophets who did not molest underage girls}.

A.A.C.


119 posted on 05/18/2005 8:25:38 PM PDT by AmericanArchConservative (Armour on, Lances high, Swords out, Bows drawn, Shields front ... Eagles UP!)
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