Posted on 05/15/2005 2:08:19 PM PDT by jb6
A group of Afghan Muslim clerics threatened on Sunday to call for a holy war against the United States in three days unless it hands over military interrogators reported to have desecrated the Koran. The warning came after 16 Afghans were killed and more than 100 hurt last week in the worst anti-U.S. protests across the country since U.S. forces invaded in 2001 to oust the Taliban for sheltering Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network. The clerics in the northeastern province of Badakhshan said they wanted U.S. President George W. Bush to handle the matter honestly "and hand the culprits over to an Islamic country for punishment". "If that does not happen within three days, we will launch a jihad against America," said a statement issued by about 300 clerics, referring to Muslim holy war, after meeting in the main mosque in the provincial capital, Faizabad.
The statement was read out by Abdul Fatah Fayeq, the top judicial official in the mountainous, conservative province near the borders of Tajikistan and China. Muslim clerics have traditionally been teachers and leaders in Afghan society and throughout its history they have rallied public opinion and sometimes led uprisings against unpopular rulers and foreign occupiers. Newsweek magazine said in its May 9 edition investigators probing abuses at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay found that interrogators "had placed Korans on toilets, and in at least one case flushed a holy book down the toilet". Muslims consider the Koran the literal word of God and treat each book with deep reverence. The United States has tried to calm global Muslim outrage over the incident, saying disrespect for the Koran was abhorrent and would not be tolerated, and military authorities were investigating the allegation.
Kill them all.
Kill them all.
How about we hand over the musim prisoner that was trying to stop up the toilet with the hellish koran instead?
The best way to end war and ensure peace is to kill the enemy.
A lot of freepers, in their zeal to bash Newsweak, are forgetting that this has nothing to do with this war.
Sure Newsweaks sux, but they don't make islamics the insane lunatics they are. The koran that should be flushed is what does it.
Your point is well taken. However, the news media understands the nature of Islamists and their similarity to rabid dogs and yet Newsweek cannot resist poking the dog with a stick to advance their own world agenda.
These people really are stupid.
Amdro?
Good. Let's send them to Allah asap.
While we're at it: never forget Viena, Constantinople, Madrid, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Antioch and ten thousand other places that the virus of Islam has disparaged.
Amen, and it's only one of thousands. Did you know that Istanbul is actually a pair of words: Istan Bul, which means in Greek (if I remember correctly), the Big City. The Islamics didn't know what to call Constantinople so they called it that.
Personally the koran chaps my tender butt I prefer Charmin.
What BULLSHIT
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Troublemaker! ;-)
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