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Newsweek Magazine printed a report in their May 9th issue that U.S. interrogators have been desecrating the Koran in Guantanamo Bay… only to now say, “Oops, we’re sorry, that’s unconfirmed....” ......In Afghanistan alone, there have been 16 deaths and over 100 injuries related to riots in protest against America arising from the Newsweek report.... “But where’s the bias? It was just a mistake that they went to print with allegations…” some liberals might argue. But we have seen this before. This is another example of when a media outlet wants something to be true and is hell bent on reporting...

When the Pope Kissed the Koran By Stephen Hand Back in 1999, on the 14th of May, according to the Patriarch of the Chaldeans, at the end of an audience between the Pope and some delegates of the Islamic Shiite and Sunni factions, the Pope bowed as “a sign of respect” toward a copy of the Koran which was presented to him as a gift. When the book was officially “presented to him,” the Pope, perhaps a bit perplexed concerning the appropriate protocol for such an official gesture, kissed it; again, as a “sign of respect toward the 34 million...