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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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cary; gitmo; islam; koran; korandesecration; newsweek; pakistan; quran
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To: Bombardier

Yeah...I know what you mean. The last time I was there was in 1995 and it just didn't seem to have the same level of energy as it did 20 years before...Oh, about those old wooden barracks...did you ever stay in those:) Are they still there?...Regards, CP


161 posted on 05/19/2005 6:37:57 AM PDT by Cornpone (Aging Warrior -- Aim High -- Who Dares Wins)
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To: Cornpone

Nope, never was in the old MOBs, my flight was in an RH&T. Most of the old MOBs have been torn down. Well, it's their Air Force now, and I hope these kids take good care of it.


162 posted on 05/19/2005 6:46:14 AM PDT by Bombardier (Islam isn't a religion, it's a sickness.)
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To: Cornpone
There once was a troll named Bovinity
Who thought that he was a divinity
He spewed quite a lot
Till along came the ZOT
Which ended the chump's assininity.
163 posted on 05/19/2005 6:51:31 AM PDT by Alouette (Muslims bite the hand that feeds them, and kiss the boot that kicks them.)
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To: AmericanArchConservative

"What is best in life?" To crush the jihadists, to drive their collaborators before you, and to hear the lamentations of their mullahs! Allahu Fubar!


164 posted on 05/19/2005 7:11:03 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: sheik yerbouty

That should be your Tagline!


165 posted on 05/19/2005 7:13:37 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth == Christ)
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To: Petronski
Mr_Bovine has left the build. So sad, we knew him not!

166 posted on 05/19/2005 7:16:14 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth == Christ)
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To: Cornpone
No dismay over muslims wiping their butts with pages from the Holy Bible during their siege at the Church Of The Nativity in Jerusalem.

No outcry from Newsweek or the MSM either.

167 posted on 05/19/2005 7:20:47 AM PDT by airborne (Dear Lord, please be with my family in Iraq. Keep them close to You and safely in Your arms.)
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To: jb6

Many thanks for the suggestion!


168 posted on 05/19/2005 7:29:58 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: AmericanArchConservative; Petronski; jb6; Alouette; Fred Nerks; USF; Cornpone; Destro; ...

It appears, looking at the time stamps before and after Bovine-boy's posts "removed by moderator", that he posted his hideously ignorant, revisionist drivel with relative impunity until #125 at about 8:39pm, (PST).

I know he kept it topical until #102/103 (after Alouette's elegantly simple zinger in #101) and then he went astray, into the slightly personal attacks.

But it was six hours later before I posted my response #119 (to Marano NYC's blunt summary about the Assyrians in #96)...

Was it something I said (in #119) that pushed the poor cow-eyed newbie troll over the edge?

Because he so "udderly" lost control in his last rants - #120, right afterward and #123 and #125, that he was "troll toast"/Viking kitty kibble - within a scant ten minutes, and I didn't even get a chance to read his last missives, nor wave "buh-bye"...

Sigh* They blow up so quickly, our li'l newbies with their wadded undies...

Guess I am going to need to sign up for the Divas' "FREEP Charm School", if I keep provoking trolls to self-destruct like that...

It seems kind of like the chicken-or-the-egg question with regard to the Newsweak "Mein Kur'anf" desecration story, and the riots it provoked (or did it?)

I joke, but really, credit belongs equally to each of you for contributing your ordnance to the ceaseless barrage of factual mortar shells and 50mm chain gun broadside strafing of artful insults in an inescapable crossfire that dropped the hapless troll's comically deficient and redundant arguments.

Folks, together we are a heckuva team - sharp-witted minds, all, and do not think for a minute that we are simply backslapping ourselves all the time as we preach to a choir of the converted...Just recently, Fred Nerks and I were privately recapping an exchange about the P.R.O.P.* on a different thread; one wherein the eyes and mental portals of a moderately new FReeper were opened, and he/she was persuaded to avail him/herself of more sources of information to shed more light on the true nature of Evil - which is the natural state of Islam. Don't forget, you make a difference!

Keep talking, keep learning, keep educating, informing one another, and monitoring the muhammadans as they continue to wallow in their centuries-old duplicities. This is why I prefer/insist upon the label I coined - the P.R.O.P.

Phony Religion Of Peace - A phony religion, with a phony prophet, and a phony peace which has never existed.

We the "FReople" will preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution, and the Free American Republic founded upon it.

A.A.C.

Yes, as a matter of fact my Star-Spangled Banner DOES yet wave: Millions have died FOR it's sake and it is infinitely MORE SACRED than the kur'an - which TENS of millions have died BECAUSE of.

bow 5x toward mecca because satan/allah-uzza demands it?

I think -- NOT!


169 posted on 05/19/2005 8:01:08 AM PDT by AmericanArchConservative (Armour on, Lances high, Swords out, Bows drawn, Shields front ... Eagles UP!)
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To: Alouette

Brilliant limerick!


170 posted on 05/19/2005 8:05:38 AM PDT by AmericanArchConservative (Armour on, Lances high, Swords out, Bows drawn, Shields front ... Eagles UP!)
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To: AmericanArchConservative

It's kind of like deer hunting...until you do the autopsy its hard to tell which bullet killed the poor beast...but you took a darn good shot:)


171 posted on 05/19/2005 8:17:36 AM PDT by Cornpone (Aging Warrior -- Aim High -- Who Dares Wins)
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To: marvlus

Shi'ite happens.


172 posted on 05/19/2005 9:14:18 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: AmericanArchConservative
Just recently, Fred Nerks and I were privately recapping an exchange about the P.R.O.P.* on a different thread; one wherein the eyes and mental portals of a moderately new FReeper were opened, and he/she was persuaded to avail him/herself of more sources of information to shed more light on the true nature of Evil - which is the natural state of Islam. Don't forget, you make a difference!

Yes AAC, the facts about this vile cult need to to be repeated, and "aired" as often as possible to enlighten as many people as we can.

Its amazing how many people that I meet out there in the real world that still don't even know what the word "dhimmitude" means.

I suspect most of them voted for Kerry... *sigh*

If people don't understand the danger we face, they will not be effective in confronting it.

173 posted on 05/19/2005 10:26:04 AM PDT by USF (I see your Jihad and raise you a Crusade ™ © ®)
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To: Chgogal

I have no particular problem with Destro, but I must admit I did not read all of his posts. I just got irritated with him because he stepped rather hard on me for being imprecise in one instance, and wrongly informed in another. I was guilty, but I guess he could have said it differently.

What bothers me is the creep of words into common usage that have the effect of changing the meaning of statements in subtle ways, such as "cause".

Destro sent me a private email indicating he was disappointed that I misinterpreted his postion on something, which I did. Ah well, can't win em all.


174 posted on 05/19/2005 10:51:41 AM PDT by rlmorel
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To: Yehuda

The jihadists have always felt flush with their syphilisation's failures.


176 posted on 05/22/2005 9:43:45 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: Chgogal

My gosh! What a great, great "letter" in response to a Muslim supporter.

I have saved this response, I find it so powerful.

Thank you so much for this post!


177 posted on 06/05/2005 5:40:53 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: AFPhys

Thank you so much. You are very kind.


178 posted on 06/05/2005 6:47:20 PM PDT by Chgogal (Where there are Muslims......Non-muslims die.)
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To: Chgogal
Of course - I'm a Boy Scout from waaaaaay back...

Trustworthy
Loyal
Helpful
Friendly
Courteous
...
Kind ... yup, it's still there.
179 posted on 06/05/2005 6:52:14 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: AFPhys
How did you find this old post? I forgot all about it.

Boy Scout, huh? How un-PC!
180 posted on 06/05/2005 7:06:14 PM PDT by Chgogal (Where there are Muslims......Non-muslims die.)
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