Take a crucifix and dip it in urine, and the Liberal
Media in the U.S. says "It's ART".
Now take a Koran in Guantanamo Bay that is accidentally sprayed by a soldier urinating, a
soldier who did not know the spray was carried through a vent into a cell,
and the NY Times and other anti Bush Liberals blast our troops with headline news.
They use the lies from a jailed terrorist to tell the story and don't even try to confirm
it with the troops stationed there. That is not journalism..that is one sided news. And
they have chosen sides by their comments and stories..
US Troops Flush Koran in
Toilet. US Troops Urinate on Koran... Repeated day after day.
They succeeded in adding fuel to the fire by getting Muslims around the world inflamed.
This is what we are facing as Americans who have sons, daughters, wives and husbands in
combat, their lives are being endangered by the ruthless Media, hell bent on making the US
effort fail for their own selfish political beliefs.
The liberal media is slow on the trigger when it comes to delivering good news, like the
fact that over 800 insurgents had been captured by the Iraqi soldiers. That is not good
news for the Media. That is counter productive to their cause. When things go good in
Iraq, it’s bad news for liberals all over. When things go bad, they rejoice.
The Liberal Media’s mask came off with the Dan Rather, Newsweek, Washington Post, and
NY Times stories that missed the mark, but had political intent written all over it. Now
the Media is circling the wagons trying to protect Newsweek by claiming there was Koran
abuse. We now have politicians wanting to close Guantanamo, based on the false stories
being circulated. It’s amazing isn’t it? American eyes should
now be wide open to the conspiracy
Update 6-3-2006
The Pentagon released new details about mishandling of the Quran at the
Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects, confirming that a soldier deliberately kicked
the Muslim holy book and that an interrogator stepped on a Quran and was later fired for
"a pattern of unacceptable behavior." In other confirmed incidents, water
balloons thrown by prison guards caused an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet; a
guard's urine came through an air vent and splashed on a detainee and his Quran; and in a
confirmed but ambiguous case a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside
cover of a Quran.
Rumors, facts and opinions continue about flushing a copy of the Qur’an (Koran) down
a toilet at Guantanamo.
Fact - Try to flush a copy of any paper
back or a hard covered book ( Koran ) down your toilet...it's impossible.
Fact - Rumors made to appear as facts come from the jailed Islamic Radicals (terrorists).
Fact - Protesting "Detained Radicals" flushed individual pages of their
Koran trying to clog & overflow toilets.
Fact - The Qur'an was supplied to them by the US Military, along with prayer rugs and
their ethnic food.
Fact - Christians or Jews in Arab Jails are NOT given a Bible. Cruxifixes or non muslim
symbols are destroyed.
Fact - Newsweek and other Liberal Media Outlets are taking the word of criminals over our
Military.
Fact - Beheadings of civilians by the same Radicals is almost ignored by Newsweek and the
Liberal Media
Fact - Suicide Bombers ( Islamic Radicals ) have killed children, Muslims, destroyed
Mosques and Qur'ans
Fact - No one related by blood to the leaders of Hamas or Islamic Jihad has died in
suicide bombings.
Fact - A minority of Islamic Radicals are Muslim - misreading the Qur'an Free Muslims
Coalition - Anti Terrorism
UPDATE - 5-27
Arab News is reporting that "The United States admitted some guards at Guantanamo Bay
had mishandled the Qur’an. The Pentagon recently announced that investigators had
identified five instances of military “mishandling” of the Qur’an. Brig.
Gen. Jay Hood refused to specify the nature of the mishandling at the prison facility
other than to say it did not involve placing it in a toilet. The
findings of the ongoing investigation mark the first time that a Pentagon official has
confirmed that the Qur’an has been abused at Guantanamo. The FBI also released
documents this week that include previously undisclosed interviews with Guantanamo
detainees, detailing incidents of Qur’an abuse.
As the Koran-flushing in Cuba episode becomes old news, the Muslim Public Affairs Council
(MPAC) has helpfully found a way to keep Koran desecration in the public eye. Middle East
Commentary- Includes article about the Koran and Amazon.com Daniel Pipes Web Site
Saudi Arabia News Site - Opinion of Flushing Koran Rumors
Quote from Arab News "Protests erupted across Muslim world after a report in
Newsweek magazine that interrogators at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
threw a Qur’an in a toilet to rattle Muslim inmates." (Note: Flushing is
not used....but thrown into) Full News Story Here
Why Islam is
disrespected By Jeff Jacoby
It's time to be frank - It was front-page news when Newsweek retracted a report claiming
that a US interrogator in Guantanamo had flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet.
Everywhere it was noted that Newsweek's story had sparked widespread Muslim rioting, in
which at least 17 people were killed. But there was no mention of deadly protests
triggered in recent years by comparable acts of desecration against other religions.
No one recalled, for example, that American Catholics lashed out in violent rampages in
1989, after photographer Andres Serrano's ''Piss Christ" — a photograph of a
crucifix submerged in urine — was included in an exhibition subsidized by the
National Endowment for the Arts. Or that they rioted in 1992 when singer Sinead O'Connor,
appearing on ''Saturday Night Live," ripped up a photograph of Pope John Paul II.
There was no reminder that Jewish communities erupted in lethal violence in 2000, after
Arabs demolished Joseph's Tomb, torching the ancient shrine and murdering a young rabbi
who tried to save a Torah. And nobody noted that Buddhists went on a killing spree in 2001
in response to the destruction of two priceless, 1,500-year-old statues of Buddha by the
Taliban government in Afghanistan.
Of course, there was a good reason all these bloody protests went unremembered in the
coverage of the Newsweek affair: They never occurred.
Christians, Jews, and Buddhists don't lash out in homicidal rage when their religion is
insulted. They don't call for holy war and riot in the streets. It would be unthinkable
for a mainstream priest, rabbi, or lama to demand that a blasphemer be slain. But when
Reuters reported what Mohammad Hanif, the imam of a Muslim seminary in Pakistan, said
about the alleged Koran-flushers — ''They should be hung. They should be killed in
public so that no one can dare to insult Islam and its sacred symbols" — was any
reader surprised?
The Muslim riots should have been met by outrage and condemnation. From every part of the
civilized world should have come denunciations of those who would react to the supposed
destruction of a book with brutal threats and the slaughter of 17 innocent people. But the
chorus of condemnation was directed not at the killers and the fanatics who incited them,
but at Newsweek.
From the White House down, the magazine was slammed — for running an item it should
have known might prove incendiary, for relying on a shaky source, for its animus toward
the military and the war. Over and over, Newsweek was blamed for the riots' death toll.
Conservative pundits in particular piled on. ''Newsweek lied, people died" was the
headline on Michelle Malkin's popular website. At NationalReview.com, Paul Marshall of
Freedom House fumed: ''What planet do these [Newsweek] people live on? . . . Anybody with
a little knowledge could have told them it was likely that people would die as a result of
the article." All of Marshall's choler was reserved for Newsweek; he had no criticism
at all for the marauders in the Muslim street.
Then there was Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who announced at a Senate hearing that
she had a message for ''Muslims in America and throughout the world."
And what was that message? That decent people do not resort to murder just because someone
has offended their religious sensibilities? That the primitive bloodlust raging in
Afghanistan and Pakistan was evidence of the Muslim world's dysfunctional political
culture?
No: Her message was that ''disrespect for the Holy Koran is not now, nor has it ever been,
nor will it ever be, tolerated by the United States."
Granted, Rice spoke while the rioting was still taking place and her goal was to reduce
the anti-American fever. But what ''Muslims in America and throughout the world" most
need to hear is not pandering sweet-talk. What they need is a blunt reminder that the real
desecration of Islam is not what some interrogator in Guantanamo might have done to the
Koran. It is what totalitarian Muslim zealots have been doing to innocent human beings in
the name of Islam. It is 9/11 and Beslan and Bali and Daniel Pearl and the USS Cole. It is
trains in Madrid and schoolbuses in Israel and an ''insurgency" in Iraq that
slaughters Muslims as they pray and vote and line up for work. It is Hamas and Al Qaeda
and sermons filled with infidel-hatred and exhortations to ''martyrdom."
But what disgraces Islam above all is the vast majority of the planet's Muslims saying
nothing and doing nothing about the jihadist cancer eating away at their religion. It is
Free Muslims Against Terrorism, a pro-democracy organization, calling on Muslims and
Middle Easterners to ''converge on our nation's capital for a rally against
terrorism" — and having only 50 people show up.
Yes, Islam is disrespected. That will only change when throngs of passionate Muslims show
up for rallies against terrorism, and when rabble-rousers trying to gin up a riot over a
defiled Koran can't get the time of day.
Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in in the media and Washington
consider "must-reading".
Why Islam is disrespected May 25, 2005 By Jeff Jacoby
JWR contributor Jeff Jacoby is a Boston Globe columnist. |
