Harry Potter Aur Azkaban Ka Qaidi
Posted on 08/08/2005 1:56:01 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
Books about boy wizard Harry Potter have become favourite reading material among Islamic terror suspects at the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Quoting a librarian working at the centre, The Washington Times newspaper says JK Rowling's tales about the boy and the school of wizardry are on top of the request list for the camp's 520 Al Qaeda and Taliban suspects, followed by Agatha Christie novels.
"We've got a few who are kind of hooked on it. A couple have asked if they can see the movie," the librarian identified only as Lori is quoted by The Times as saying.
Lori said she is compiling a list to provide to various law-makers in Washington, who recently visited the prison at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay as part of a congressional delegation investigating accusations of torture, according to the report.
A US military investigation last month concluded that no torture has taken place since the prison opened in early 2002. The Times said the Guantanamo library also has drawn interest because of a separate investigation into how guards handle the Koran, which is given to any prisoner who requests it under Pentagon policy.
The investigation found five cases of mishandling the sacred book, but no evidence that personnel flushed a copy down a toilet.
Australian David Hicks has been held at Guantanamo Bay for almost four years.
Harry Potter Aur Azkaban Ka Qaidi
I thought Rumsfeld cooked up some "torture" where he'd have a detainee tied to a chair while some scantly dressed female soldier read the book to him.
I concur- C. S. Lewis would be a superb choice for them to read. Let them start out with the Screwtape Letters...
Sometimes I just can't grasp the irony of the way they seem to revel in our culture...and despise us all at once.
When this story gets out there will probably be more riots in Afghanistan.
"We shouldn't be giving them anything to read that wasn't penned by Thomas Aquinas."
Hope they keep a copy. That's all the toilet paper they will have when they get sent back to the Kabul Hyatt.
> Hermione is an excellent example of the proper role of women in society.
God, I wish I had Hermione to help me get through school.
Sean Connery will never live that getup down. ;)
I think that they may be more apt to sympathize with Harry and think that we are Voldemort.
I think the master plan is to take them up to the current book and then get on the loudspeaker and reveal the big secret. "Oh, did you want to read that for yourselves? Sorry!"
Maybe the "torture" backfired. Sounds as if they might have developed a taste for HP that way! They surely weren't reading those books (or any others except for the Q'uran) in their previous lives.
I'd support either shipping a few Dementors down to gitmo, or shipping the whole lot of them to Azkaban.
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