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Subject: Sauce for the Goose...
sanman    5/12/2005 8:16:56 PM
Now the Americans are receiving the same kind of treatment they meted out to Narendra Modi, the governor of India's state of Gujarat. When Muslim activists accused him of orchestrating anti-Muslim pogroms, the USA automatically declared him guilty on the mere strength of the accusation, despite clear evidence to the contrary -- over 250 Hindus were killed by Muslims in the riots, including 100 policemen -- violence which was started by Islamists torching a busload of 60 Hindu pilgrims. The US barred governor Modi from visiting the United States purely on the basis of allegations, even though he hadn't even been found guilty under due process. The Americans did this just to score brownie points with Muslim activists. Now Muslim firebrands have now accused American soldiers of desecrating the Koran -- an age-old Islamist tactic. And as you know, as soon as said Koran-desecration is announced, then the obligatory street riots have to take place -- all to defend Islamic honor, of course. So the next time a US official wants to visit India, they should be denied entry on the grounds of the US security forces having desecrated the Koran. After all, an accusation is as good as fact, in the eyes of our pious American friends. Maybe hoteliers in the US should make sure to keep all copies of hotel-room Bibles or Korans inside glass cases. Because as we know, monotheist piety automatically reserves them the right to vandalize any establishment where they find a dog-eared or damaged holy book.
 
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swhitebull    RE:Sauce for the Goose...   5/12/2005 10:22:05 PM
A few Comments: REACTION TO THAT FLUSHING-KORAN RUMOR [05/12 11:40 AM] A Pentagon spokesman states that they are investigating the allegations in the Newsweek story claiming "interrogators, in an attempt to rattle suspects, flushed a Qur'an down a toilet." If true, the story seems horrible... for about a moment or two. Is flushing a Qur'an offensive and disrespectful? Sure. But it's an offensive and disrespectful world out there, full of stuff that, frankly, is worse. I mean, if you're caught practicing Christianity or Judaism or any other non-Muslim religion in Saudi Arabia, you get arrested. Or worse. There are still honor killings in many parts of the hemisphere I'm in. Theo Van Gogh is dead for insulting a faith; Ayaan Hirsi Ali lives in hiding and constant fear for criticizing one. I mean, in most parts of the United States, flushing a Bible down a toilet would be NEA-funded performance art. StrategyPage: Anti-American protests have spread to the capital, sparked by an unsubstantiated accusations by a U.S. newsmagazine. Newsweek magazine published a hearsay item about American interrogators at Guantanamo desecrating the Koran to intimidate suspected terrorists. The Taliban has been trying to spread similar stories, but have no credibility. American media has more clout, even if the story in question is basically a rumor. The pro-Taliban groups will push this story as much as they can, but the Taliban support is basically restricted to some Pushtun tribes in southern and eastern Afghanistan. Instapundit: The press is exquisitely sensitive to the risks posed by, say, racial insensitivity in reporting. It's too bad they're not so careful with regard to things that might get American troops killed. TKS reader John, a man familiar with government toilets, observes, "Even in paperback, his'd be a heckuva flush. Where can I get a couple of those government flushinators? Y'know the Geneva Accords hold that we'd be well within our rights to summarily execute these illegal combatants at the point of capture so I'm not all that exercised by 'intimidating' tactics. Sauce for the goose, don't ya know." The Newsweek article also spells out other tactics: "An Army spokesman confirms that 10 Gitmo interrogators have already been disciplined for mistreating prisoners, including one woman who took off her top, rubbed her finger through a detainee's hair and sat on the detainee's lap. (New details of sexual abuse—including an instance in which a female interrogator allegedly wiped her red-stained hand on a detainee's face, telling him it was her menstrual blood—are also in a new book to be published this week by a former Gitmo translator.)" I know, the good Christian in me ought to be bothered by humiliation of prisoners. But these are al-Qaeda and Taliban, folks. I'm sorry, but my heart has only so much sympathy and these guys don't get any. The argument that stories of Qur'an-flushing hurt the overall effort in the war on terror - now that's a bit more compelling swhitebull - from national review
 
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sanman    RE:Sauce for the Goose...   5/15/2005 9:20:41 PM
Oh looky -- the Newsweek report turned out to be unsubstantiated. Well how surprising is that? Didn't I tell you that rioting over alleged desecrations is what Islamist militant demagogues specialize in? And all too typically, the truth comes out AFTER the rioters have done their damage. People are dead now, and further lives continue to be at risk. Newsweek may as well have committed Negligent Homicide. But had the article been published about a Third World country, then Newsweek would never have been held to account, or published any retraction. That sort of thing just isn't done for lesser peoples. The US still hasn't apologized for its wrongful slandering of Governor Modi. Thus I shouldn't get too unhappy with the US being on the receiving end of Islamist drumhead justice this time, since the US has long encouraged it anyway.
 
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