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.
I'm thinking an MSM... ARCOM would be for the beard shaving.
Good point. Also, the korans should be stocked as TP by the QM....just so there's no doubt.
Take your threats back to DU.
Bingo! Impossible to flush a book down a toilet.
so long troll
Ooohhhh, this is going to get good.
Go ahead , you wont offend me. By the way try to keep up this must be days old.
It is days old but that's a common tactic of cowardly trolls.
I lived in a townhouse a few years ago, one morning there were new korans left on all the door steps of the complex. I used mine to start a fire in my grill to cook a few pork chops.
Tolerance?
Please cite the passage where Jesus commands us to be tolerant of those who murder innocent women and children.
I am serious. Find the passage of Scripture to support your claim, and I will gladly apologize.
A KILLING COMMANDED BY ISLAMIC "LAW"Within an hour, the entire village would learn that the 25-year-old married woman had been discovered in a darkened nearby hut with her lover.
Within two days, Amina was dead -- killed by her fellow villagers April 20 after the men of the community ruled that she had violated Islamic law by having an affair with a neighbor....
Such hate and hostility. Such seething rage.
And yet you lecture us on "tolerance?"
shut up troll
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