NBC: Handling of Sons “Quite Offensive to Islamic Sensibilities”

MRC ^ | Monday July 28, 2003 | BrentBaker

[fight_truth_decay]

NBC’s Richard Engel offered a more sweeping scolding than did other reporters of the U.S. for laying out for video cameras the bodies of Uday and Qusay Hussein. He called the decision “controversial” and insisted “all of this has been quite offensive to Islamic sensibilities here. Muslims are generally buried in a simple white shroud without any embalming process at all.”

On Friday’s NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw asked Engel in Baghdad: “Richard, as you well know, there’s fresh video tonight as well of the bodies of Saddam’s two sons after they were cleaned up by Army morticians. We want to warn everybody, the images are still very graphic, but are those new images any more persuasive to the Iraqi people?”

Richard suggested the U.S. messed up again: “They are not really more persuasive. But they certainly are more controversial. These bodies were quite radically altered. First, the men were shaved, then putty was used to remodel their faces, make-up was also applied to make them look more life-like. The Americans, however, say these are certainly the men and even displayed a metal plate that bears the identical serial number to a plate that was inserted in Uday’s leg after an assassination attempt in the 1990s. All of this has been quite offensive to Islamic sensibilities here. Muslims are generally buried in a simple white shroud without any embalming process at all, Tom.”

[Terriergal]

Damn! We forgot to wear our "What Would Mohammed Do?" bracelets!

BWAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA!

[Terriergal]

They got what they deserved.

They got a heck of a lot better than they deserved. But they'll be making up for it now for... oh a LONG time.

[cinFLA]

Remember how Saddam showed everyone the body of his "deceased" predecessor!!!!!

[Spruce]

Better yet, let's hope the morticians took a dump in the bodies before sewing them up!

[CrystalClear]

The Islamists are SO OFFENDED!!! BWWAAA HAAA HAAA!!!!!

They have no argument...therefore (like the Democrats) they are SOOOOOOOOO OFFENDED!!!!!!

[pasquale]

WTR

I'm with you. I find flying airplanes into occupied building offensive to Western sensibilities.

Pasquale

[Terriergal]

So if they aren't Muslims, how could the treatment of them affect Islamic sensibilities?

If you say "I believe Allah is the one true God and Mohammed is is prophet" you're a Muslim. Doesn't seem to matter what else you do, very much.

[cinFLA]

I suspect that this is really the standard in Iraqi history and that Brokaw and company protest SPIN too much.

[Ann Archy]

Islamic Sensibilities.....oxymoron.

[rockfish59]

The media will spin this just like the '16 Words'

Whining idiots, all!

This is for them!

[pasquale]

WTR

I'm with you. I find flying airplanes into occupied building offensive to Western sensibilities.

Pasquale

[Eva]

Embalming was a whole lot better than the the way the Husseins treated their dead enemies.

[Darksheare]

It'll be an education, at least for those caught.
*chuckle*
I think we need to offend their 'sensibilities' more often!

[Terriergal]

heh heh!!

[johnb838]

Richard Engel will ALWAYS be Pretty Chicken in my mind.

[Ann Archy]

The Fourth Estate IS the Fifth Column.

[LurkedLongEnough]

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[Dqban22]

ISN'T OFFENSIVE TO ISLAMICS SENSIBILITIES TO FEED THE LYONS WITH UDAY'S ENEMIES?

[Dqban22]

ISN'T OFFENSIVE TO ISLAMICS SENSIBILITIES TO FEED THE LYONS WITH UDAY'S ENEMIES?

[fortunecookie]

I can't stop laughing! Great pic!!

BTW, how do Iraqis and Muslims feel about the way the Brothers Gruesome treated their mostly Muslim Iraqis victims??? Where's the outrage?? Was great sensitivity shown to the victims? Their families? Did Iraqis feel this great sense of outrage?