Posted on 05/20/2005 9:43:01 PM PDT by quidnunc
Three-and-a-half years after 9/11, you would think that we Americans would get it: Muslims take their religion very, very seriously. Now 17 people are dead, Afghanistan is on edge, and there are protests in Pakistan, our most vulnerable and valuable ally among Muslim states — in part, it seems, because of six words in a brief item in Newsweek magazine. The offending passage, a small but colorful detail in a story on the investigation of abuses at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, reads in full: "Among the previously unreported cases, sources tell Newsweek: interrogators, in an attempt to rattle suspects, flushed a Qur'an down a toilet."
This was not the first time a major news organization had reported allegations that copies of the Quran belonging to detainees had been desecrated in this fashion — the Washington Post, the BBC and the New York Times all got there first. For this reason, perhaps, my colleagues at Newsweek, where I spent 38 years as religion editor, did not foresee how this single example among others mentioned in the story might incite Islam's most rabid anti-Americans. Neither, apparently, did the Pentagon official who read the Newsweek story before it went to press — a precaution the Newsweek editors took — and made no objection to the passage.
I am in no position to pass judgment on my Newsweek colleagues, nor would I want to. Among them are highly sensitive editors who frequently caught errors in my own copy. My concern is that all Americans understand how deeply sacrilegious such an act as Newsweek described would be to Muslims, and why it is not like flushing pages from the Bible down the drain — as Keith Olbermann on MSNBC and other commentators have suggested.
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Tough. Each time we bow to their ridiculous religious demands brings us one step closer to Dhimmitude. No thanks.
Maybe it's time for the Muslims to honor Western sensibilities for once....fat chance.
As if I care...
They don't want to get along, they can only spread there religion on the point of a sword.
again - we are being asked to understand irrational behavior by our Press.
I'd still use it if the Charmin roll was empty.
And make a bed for the hogs with it, too.
I think Koran toilet paper might just be a best seller in this country.
Kenn, let's talk about the sacredness of the American Flag,
the symbol of Libery and Freedom, which we see burnt, and urinated on by these terrorist fanatics.
The Koran? I'm over it, piss on it.
Being such a highly sensitive news writer, you should realize that you have just offended millions of Christians.
After all it is art.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Do you really mean this, or is your reply intended for Kenneth L. Woodward?
And none of their religious leaders are criticizing the violence either.
Muslims are like savages and barbaric. Never before in all of history have we honored such people. Our counry and the journalists are really behaving like dimwits. We act like we are chickens too afraid to fight with the devil, wild wild devils.
This weekend will be a series of posts on "Dhimmitude - And the Life of a Dhimmi" - stop by learn more of what you are in store for. This will all be from my first hand experience - what I go through on a daily basis from the moment I wake up until I go to sleep at night!
Learn how why that to accept Islam within your country requires that you sacrifice your freedom - stop by now and read how you are already losing it and don't even realize it.
Stop by now and see how in the fury over the Newsweek article that much of America missed the biggest story - the battle that we all collectively lost when our Secretary of State appeased and pleaded with our enemies that they might show us quarter - and then offered up our freedom in exchange for peace and security?
I urge you to read "Desecration of Freedom" and the other essays concerning the same.
Jeff Jacoby had an excellent article in the Boston Globe on the Muslim riots. Nowhere were they condemned in the MSM. Christians, Jews and Buddhists have their sacred symbols, holy places and artifacts defiled and destroyed--no riots. Muslims are given a pass on riots, murders and terrorism for any pretext.
Seems like there is an endless flow of b.s. spewing from the lamestream media spigots. The Pentagon doesn't edit Newsweek articles, nor does Newsweek care a whit about Pentagon objections to their stories and news releases. In fact, the Pentagon begged the news media not to publish the Abu Graihab photos because our troops would receive the brunt of the Islamic backlash. And the media cared????
Sorry... meant for Kenneth Woodward!
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