The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Saturday, June 04, 2005
Koran Media Hysteria: a new low even for the MSM
Will someone tell me one positive thing that is to be gained by ANY western media entity reporting about this riduculous "Koran abuse" crap? Have we come to a point where our media is actually trying to get people killed, cause anti-American riots worldwide, and otherwise hurt the efforts of our countrymen to integrate part of the world that is still trying to live in the 9th century.
And a second question is: why is the Pentagon parading people out to fan the flames in the first place? Don't they have better things to do? This is so unacceptable on so many levels it boggles the mind; and I'm not even talking about how the pages of A BOOK are treated. What are these guys, wusses? I mean they can chop peoples heads off and blow women and children to smithereens but they can't handle it if thier cell copy of the good book isn't handled with gloves? And we and our media are playing to this insanity? Beam me up, Scotty.
Media Hysteria Climbs to New Heights
Mainstream media is indulging in a hysterical orgy of bias and incitement over the Pentagon’s announcement of five cases of Koran mishandling (out of tens of thousands of interrogations); the worst example I’ve seen yet is this blatantly dishonest headline from al-Reuters: Jailers splashed Koran with urine - Pentagon. (Hat tip: Riding Sun.)
The incident in question involved one guard, who urinated near an air vent, prompting a detainee to claim that drops of urine came through the vent and got on his Koran.
In short, if it happened at all, it was an accident.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American jailers at the Guantanamo prison for foreign terrorism suspects splashed a Koran with urine, kicked and stepped on the Islamic holy book and soaked it with water, the U.S. military said on Friday.
U.S. Southern Command, responsible for the prison at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, described for the first time five cases of “mishandling” of a Koran by U.S. personnel confirmed by a newly completed military inquiry, officials said in a statement.
In the incident involving urine, which took place this past March, Southern Command said a guard left his post and urinated near an air vent and “the wind blew his urine through the vent” and into a cell block.
It said a detainee told guards the urine “splashed on him and his Koran.” The statement said the detainee was given a new prison uniform and Koran, and that the guard was reprimanded and given duty in which he had no contact with prisoners.
No mention in this story that there are many more cases of detainees desecrating their own Korans, by using them as pillows, ripping them up, flushing them in toilets ... and peeing on them.
He also said they found 15 cases of detainees mishandling their own Qurans. “These included using a Quran as a pillow, ripping pages out of the Quran, attempting to flush a Quran down the toilet and urinating on the Quran.”
This Guantanamo story is truly a watershed in an era of media bias; the anti-American agenda of outfits like al-Reuters and the New York Times has never stood more nakedly revealed.
UPDATE at 6/4/05 8:46:37 am:
At the Los Angeles Times: Pentagon: Koran Defiled.
UPDATE: My apologies to Charles Johnson for not attributing the quoted material above yesterday.
And a second question is: why is the Pentagon parading people out to fan the flames in the first place? Don't they have better things to do? This is so unacceptable on so many levels it boggles the mind; and I'm not even talking about how the pages of A BOOK are treated. What are these guys, wusses? I mean they can chop peoples heads off and blow women and children to smithereens but they can't handle it if thier cell copy of the good book isn't handled with gloves? And we and our media are playing to this insanity? Beam me up, Scotty.
Media Hysteria Climbs to New Heights
Mainstream media is indulging in a hysterical orgy of bias and incitement over the Pentagon’s announcement of five cases of Koran mishandling (out of tens of thousands of interrogations); the worst example I’ve seen yet is this blatantly dishonest headline from al-Reuters: Jailers splashed Koran with urine - Pentagon. (Hat tip: Riding Sun.)
The incident in question involved one guard, who urinated near an air vent, prompting a detainee to claim that drops of urine came through the vent and got on his Koran.
In short, if it happened at all, it was an accident.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American jailers at the Guantanamo prison for foreign terrorism suspects splashed a Koran with urine, kicked and stepped on the Islamic holy book and soaked it with water, the U.S. military said on Friday.
U.S. Southern Command, responsible for the prison at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, described for the first time five cases of “mishandling” of a Koran by U.S. personnel confirmed by a newly completed military inquiry, officials said in a statement.
In the incident involving urine, which took place this past March, Southern Command said a guard left his post and urinated near an air vent and “the wind blew his urine through the vent” and into a cell block.
It said a detainee told guards the urine “splashed on him and his Koran.” The statement said the detainee was given a new prison uniform and Koran, and that the guard was reprimanded and given duty in which he had no contact with prisoners.
No mention in this story that there are many more cases of detainees desecrating their own Korans, by using them as pillows, ripping them up, flushing them in toilets ... and peeing on them.
He also said they found 15 cases of detainees mishandling their own Qurans. “These included using a Quran as a pillow, ripping pages out of the Quran, attempting to flush a Quran down the toilet and urinating on the Quran.”
This Guantanamo story is truly a watershed in an era of media bias; the anti-American agenda of outfits like al-Reuters and the New York Times has never stood more nakedly revealed.
UPDATE at 6/4/05 8:46:37 am:
At the Los Angeles Times: Pentagon: Koran Defiled.
UPDATE: My apologies to Charles Johnson for not attributing the quoted material above yesterday.
