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U.S. military finds abuse of Koran
King Tech Quadafi:
An internal investigation at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has confirmed several cases of guards mishandling religious material, but the general in charge said guards were usually "respectful."
The confirmed incidents include a guard kicking a Koran, an interrogator standing on a Koran and a guard spraying a prisoner and his Koran with urine by relieving himself near an air vent.
Brigadier-General Jay Hood, the commander of the jail for terrorist suspects, said that the incidents detailed in his report are the exception to the rule.
"The inquiry ... revealed a consistent, documented policy of respectful handling of the Koran dating back almost two-and-a-half years," he said in a statement issued late Friday.
Gen. Hood was looking into allegations -- reported and then retracted by Newsweek magazine -- that U.S. personnel at the penal camp had flushed a prisoner's Koran down the toilet. The report angered some in the Muslim world and reports from the region said that the street violence had killed a number of people.
But the statement from Gen. Hood said that his investigators had found no evidence to support that specific allegation.
"The inquiry found no credible evidence that a member of the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo Bay ever flushed a Koran down a toilet. This matter is considered closed."
Gen. Hood's statement did, however, detail a series of other incidents in which the Koran had been mishandled. He also noted that the prisoners themselves appeared to have debased their own Korans on as many as 15 occasions.
Hundreds of terrorist suspects have been held at Guantanamo Bay, some of them for years. They exist in a legal limbo, accorded neither the status of prisoners-of-war nor the privileges and rights of international law. Amnesty International recently described the camp as a modern-day "gulag," an emotive term that brought angry response from U.S. President George W. Bush and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Gen. Hood said that his team looked into a total of 19 Koran-handling incidents. They concluded that 10 of them were the result of appropriate and routine behaviour by guards. Four others could not be conclusively determined to have happened or not happened. The remaining five are considered confirmed.
The confirmed incidents include:
* a guard kicking a prisoner's Koran;
* Korans being wetted by water balloons thrown by guards;
* a "two-word obscenity" written inside the cover of a Koran, which Gen. Hood's report says could have been done by a guard or the prisoner himself;
* a guard who relieved himself too close to an air vent, spraying a prisoner and his Koran; and
* a contract interrogator who stepped on a Koran during an interrogation.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050604.wkoran0604/BNStory/International/
Dont worry guys, the people being quoted are enemies of America :D
Shallow:
Does anyone really think that it'd be any different Muslims invaded Christian countries? I'll bet my life the same shit would happen to a whole buch of Bibles or Icons if America was taken over. I wonder how many Christian artifacts were destroyed when Spain was taken over. I know a whole bunch of shit went down in Greece when Turkey took over.
All I have to say is big feal. So there are people out there ignorant to the sanctity of other peoples beliefs and religions. What else is new? Just remember that contradicting your religion in order to defend it isn't defending it at all. It's hurting it.
King Tech Quadafi:
monkey, do u see me in any of these damn threaqds? do u see me railing against the injustices going on?
no
i dont give 2 shits about my Quran being desecrated because my entire community has been desecrated for 60 years. this means nothing and is putting the attention off where it needs to be. This thread- basically every post of mine- is made to rip apart stupid opinions being passed around
the latest being, "dont believe these reports, they come from our enemies"
last week, these fags said the reports were false. then they are proven wrong.
prediction: this is the work of low level soldiers with no higher up information.
thats the opinion thats gonna go around this place next week
King Tech Quadafi:
--- Quote from: Shallow on June 04, 2005, 02:01:13 PM ---Does anyone really think that it'd be any different Muslims invaded Christian countries? I'll bet my life the same shit would happen to a whole buch of Bibles or Icons if America was taken over. I wonder how many Christian artifacts were destroyed when Spain was taken over. I know a whole bunch of shit went down in Greece when Turkey took over.
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cant be compared to this by the way
Shallow:
--- Quote from: King Techniec on June 04, 2005, 03:01:08 PM ---monkey, do u see me in any of these damn threaqds? do u see me railing against the injustices going on?
no
i dont give 2 shits about my Quran being desecrated because my entire community has been desecrated for 60 years. this means nothing and is putting the attention off where it needs to be. This thread- basically every post of mine- is made to rip apart stupid opinions being passed around
the latest being, "dont believe these reports, they come from our enemies"
last week, these fags said the reports were false. then they are proven wrong.
prediction: this is the work of low level soldiers with no higher up information.
thats the opinion thats gonna go around this place next week
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Woah, chill out man. My post wasn't a response to you personally. It was just my take on the situation. You're thread was the newest so I posted it here. I no way was I trying to start a debate with you. but......
--- Quote from: King Techniec on June 04, 2005, 03:01:08 PM ---cant be compared to this by the way
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Why not?
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