Newsweek sparks global riots with one paragraph on Koran

London Times (UK) ^ | May 14, 2005 | Catherine Philp

[veronica]

Are you suggesting the press not report stories that might offend Muslims? Even stories as benign as a Koran being flushed down a toilet? We've had to tolerate seeing beheadings, Americans being shot on tape after having their helicopter hit with rockets, Americans being immolated and hung from bridges. Do we riot? NO. Because we are civilized.

[kanawa]

How a Fire Broke Out (NEWSWEEK source is now unsure)

[orionblamblam]

Yes, but perahps this sort of thing is good in the long run. We are at war, and our people need to know it. If someone flushing *one* *single* *book* will cause hundreds of thousands or even millions of people on the other side to go absolutlely ape, it is good that our people know it.

[ozarkgirl]

Because I intend to desecrate one of them every single day for the rest of my life

You won't have to buy very many copies, if you do that, your life won't last much longer.

[ozarkgirl]

When are we going to start to enforce treason law?

There's a law against treason? Nah, ask Jane Fonda or Michael Moore. There is no law against treason anymore.

[blueberry12]

This is the problem. All they want is to prove that Bush is a real failure.

It is very hard for the United States to accomplish anything while half of the country spends its energy on attacking the other half trying to hinder the other's plans and strategy. We have an enemy within. In other words, the United States would be a lot more efficient without any democrats and opposition.

As Jesus said, "If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand."

[Thebaddog]

I stopped my Newsweek subscription years ago when their political agenda became too noxious. Perhaps more lost subscriptions would be a message to those self-important ideologues.

[ThreePuttinDude]

He said it would strengthen the impression that America’s War on Terror was against Muslims.

Note to imam.....We are at war against muslims

[Arrowhead1952]

I liked this photo previouly posted on that thread Reply #12

[TN4Liberty]

The hypocracy is incredible. The followers of the religion of peace heard a story about their manual being desecrated, so the followers of the religion of peace are now bloodthirsty and demanding vengeance.

Interesting point you make. They are upset because they believe we desecrated (flushed) one of their sacred symbols (the Koran). They respond by desecrating (burning) ours (the American Flag). Seems like a wash.

[Mo1]

Are you suggesting the press not report stories that might offend Muslims?

I've got a problem when a story is twisted and not acurate

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403496/posts?page=91#91

General Craddock, our commander of Southern Command, has been in Guantanamo for the last couple of days digging into this issue to see if there was a time when the Koran was not respected. I can tell you that the version of the Koran that we provide to detainees is approved by the ICRC. So we're very careful about that. They have looked through the logs, the interrogation logs, and they cannot confirm yet that there were ever the case of the toilet incident, except for one case, a log entry, which they still have to confirm, where a detainee was reported by a guard to be ripping pages out of a Koran and putting in the toilet to stop it up as a protest. But not where the U.S. did it.

[maggief]

Here's what Gen. Myers had to say about it.

91 posted on 05/15/2005 8:30:05 AM CDT by OXENinFLA


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403496/posts?page=91#91

[Mo1]

It's like yelling fire in a crowded theater and people get trampled to death. Muslims are crazy, so the media should know better, before reporting falsehoods.

Exactly!

[Bostton1]

LOL, yeah that is a good one.

[veronica]

That's like saying it would have been right to put the Rodney King incident cops in jail, just because not to do so caused riots.

If people act like animals over something as benign as the Koran story, it is they who must change, not the rest of us.

[quantim]

Yeah where is the UN on that?

That is why the lefties are so afraid of Bolton - he's going to make a difference.  Part of the WOT is obviously stopping muslim slaughters (terrorism via cleansing the infidels) wherever they occur with forces other than just American. He will hold the U.N.'s feet to the fire while all the socialists only want to sit around and talk about it, know it.

[Mo1]

You can keep making excuses for Newsweek all you want

I won't .. IMO they knew what they were doing ..

and if they didn't they are incredibly stupid and shouldn't be in the journalism business

[Nucluside]

No arguement there.

[veronica]

I am not making excuses for Newsweek, I am placing the blame where it belongs, on the rioters, who, by the way, will riot at the drop of a hat.

[Mo1]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403526/posts
Afghanistan: Authorities On Alert After Days Of Violent Protests
RFE/RL via GlobalSecurity.org ^ | 2005 May 14 | Golnaz Esfandiari

Posted on 05/15/2005 9:52:20 AM EDT by Wiz

Police and army forces in Afghanistan are on a state of alert after three days of violent anti-American protests that shook several provinces of the country. At least 10 people have died so far in the protests, which were triggered by a U.S. magazine report that said U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had desecrated the Koran.