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Posted on 05/18/2005 7:36:14 PM PDT by wagglebee
JERUSALEM – Muslim protests throughout the Middle East regarding a now-retracted Newsweek report that claimed U.S. Army interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had flushed a Quran down the toilet are being organized by anti-Western jihadists and were planned several months ago with the magazine article serving as a convenient trigger, a senior Israeli security source told WND.
He warned that if not quelled, the gatherings can turn into violent mass anti-American revolts.
"Jihadists have been planting the seeds for quite some time for mass anti-American protests in the Middle East, particularly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where pro-Taliban elements have been looking for an excuse to revolt against what they see as Western imposed governments," the security official said. "The Newsweek article was just the excuse they needed."
Newsweek reported May 9 that interrogators at the Cuba detention camp placed copies of the Quran on toilets to torture Muslim inmates and in one case flushed one down the toilet.
After two weeks, the magazine retracted its story, but not before it set off violent protests in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia and Gaza City, with at least 17 dead as a result.
Muslims in Indonesia and Pakistan continue holding anti-U.S. protests.
Islamic leaders in Pakistan have called for international anti-U.S. protest later this month.
"Islamic groups will hold demonstrations on May 27 across the world to condemn the desecration of Holy Quran in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay," Qazi Hussain Ahmad, head of a coalition of six politico-religious groups said Sunday.
Ahmad said his alliance, the Muttahida Majlis Amal, had "coordinated with Islamic organizations all over the world to join us in this day of condemnation."
Groups in Pakistan, Egypt, Malaysia, Britain, Turkey and other countries are planning more rallies to protest the alleged desecration.
"We had reports beginning several months ago that Islamist groups have been seeking to start uprisings against American advances in the Middle East," said the security official.
"Pakistan and Afghanistan will likely be the site of the most unrest, with al-Qaida linked groups rallying constituents with plans of turning against the governments there. Hard-line shieks are bringing their followers to the streets."
The official continued: "This is about hopes to unseat [Pakistani president General Pervez] Musharraf, who they see as an ally of America, overthrow the new Afghan government, create unrest and instability that will bog down [American] forces and interests in Iraq and the greater Middle East."
"If not put down," the official warned, "continued protests can turn into violent insurgencies."
Meanwhile, Newsweek's retraction was met with skepticism throughout the Muslim world.
"The apology and retraction are not enough," Pakistan's Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told Reuters.
Muttahida Majlis Amal demanded interrogators responsible for the alleged Quran desecration be punished.
"Those who planned and flashed this story in Newsweek must be exposed and punished," deputy secretary general of the MMA, Liaquat Baloch, told Agence France-Presse.
“We will not be deceived by this,” Afghan Islamic cleric Mullah Sadullah Abu Aman told the Gulf Times yesterday, referring to the magazine’s retraction. “This is a decision by America to save itself. It comes because of American pressure. Even an ordinary illiterate peasant understands this and won’t accept it.”
Aman was the leader of a group of clerics who on Sunday threatened a jihad against the U.S. in three days unless it handed over the military interrogators reported to have desecrated the Quran.
He told reporters the call for a jihad still stood.
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Yeah...makes you wonder doesn't it...whose free press do we have in this country these days?
Maybe Newsweak knew that the riots were planned and helped them along
The "intifada" (aka Arab suicide war against the Jews) was also planned in advance, but was based on the dubious excuse of Sharon going up on the Temple Mount.
After all the media has been warning us for three and a half years about the imminent eruption of the "Arab street."
They will only, for the most part, understand "a rain of ruin."
“We will not be deceived by this,” Afghan Islamic cleric Mullah Sadullah Abu Aman told the Gulf Times yesterday, referring to the magazine’s retraction. “This is a decision by America to save itself. It comes because of American pressure. Even an ordinary illiterate peasant understands this and won’t accept it.
Well, it appears that the lame-stream-Jack-arses at newsweak have put America in the cross-hairs of the muslim world. We can all blame newsweak for the next terrorist attack in America. The arabs are so ignorant that it will probably happen, because they don't understand how the world works, and their place in it. Who's falt is that? Their leaders and the idiots of newsweak, time, nyt,wp,lat etc....etc...etc....
I don't think any of us are inclined to say that the Muslims aren't responsible for the violence they commit. But as you say, that doesn't excuse NewsWeak for telling the lie that set them off.
Nor, in fact, would it excuse NewsWeak for publishing such a story even if it were true. You don't egg on a crazy killer to shoot people and then shrug off responsibility because you didn't actually pull the trigger.
Muslim protests throughout the Middle East regarding a now-retracted Newsweek report that claimed U.S. Army interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had flushed a Quran down the toilet are being organized by anti-Western jihadists and were planned several months ago with the magazine article serving as a convenient trigger, a senior Israeli security source told WND.
And protests by leftists are planned in advance, they just want an excuse to vent.
The best Islamofascist analogy to this is the Nick Berg murder. He was captured before the Abu Ghrab videos and photos got heavy rotation. Another prisoner had escaped his captors that week. Nick Berg was a liability to them but the AG scandal gave them a rallying cry.
CBS and the MSM are to blame for Nick Berg's death at that time.
IIRC the "mainstream" media was "warning" Bush way back when that the war on terrorism would just "incite" more violence, so it would seem that printing a story like this would fall under the same category regardless of its validity.
Hate to say it, but one of these days - maybe not for decades - we're going to end up going to the mat in a no-holds-barred fight to the death against those nutjobs.
Might as well do it now while we for certain have the upper hand.
This rioting and killing reminds me of PM Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount in September 2000 which ostensibly started the Palestinian Intifadah and ended the Oslo 'Peace process'. Only it turns out that the uprising was really planned months before and Sharon's visit was just the excuse to begin hostilities.
The Jihadist Muslims have played the US and the administration with the cooperation of the media. They are masters of PR and pervayors of victimhood and righteous indignation, ironic when the indignation over an object's destruction justifies human destruction. What religion sanctions that? Let's not forget the killing of 100 in Nigeria over the insult to Islam of a beauty contest.
If the Muslims spent a fraction of their PR efforts, used to bamboozle the world and a complicitous and gullible media, into actually creating something in the world they would be a formidable society instead of the vacuous has-beens they are today.
What you said. :')
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