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June 8, 2005
Taking Doug Patton to the Woodshed
Ask Me if I Care About 'Mishandling' of Koran
The title pretty much sums up his point, and the point is stupid. It's basically a tirade on how we are at war and it doesn't matter. Did it matter when museums in New York were exhibiting crucifixes in jars of urine? You bet! What about pictures of the Virgin Mary smeared with manure? Your darn right!
No one takes serious (except Naomi Klein apparently) claims that Koran abuse was used to get the inmates to talk. (Picture an American soldier with his gun to the Koran saying talk or the book gets it). It's inflammatory and it should be. I wouldn't want people trashing a Bible and when people do it here there is a justified outpouring of anger about it. Maybe I take Sun Tzu's opinion on treatment of prisoners, or maybe I just think that prisoners should be afforded some amount of respect. There is absolutely no reason to go trashing the Koran unless you WANT to piss off the Middle East.
At the end of the day, when one side complains about misuse of their book then turns around and not cares when another sides book gets trashed, that opens you up to calls of hypocrisy. (Though to be fair, far more Koran abuse occurred at the hands of the inmates and not the soldiers).
Posted by John Bambenek at June 8, 2005 10:19 PM
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Nonsense! Do you really take comfort in this reportage that *the inmates themselves* abused the Koran more that our soldiers did? That's incredible, lame, and based on stretching a few things. If someone uses a book for a pillow, that's because he doesn't have one - and is probably lying on a cold stone floor. And would that constitute "abuse"? Bambi, I know you can do better!
RESPONSE: As much comfort as I take that some MP held up his M9 to a Koran saying "Talk or the book gets it". I'm sorry, it doesn't take someone with a large clue to know the desecrated the Koran would not get anyone to talk and would only be inflammatory. It's useless as an interrogation technique. But in the light of the Al Queda training manual...
Posted by: Antaeus at June 15, 2005 11:22 PM
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