Ticomaya wrote:DrewDad wrote:Meanwhile, the gov't has admitted that disrespect to the Qur'an has taken place... just not flushing it down a toilet.
Which might include accidentally or purposefully dropping the book on the ground, or touching it with "unclean" hands.
Or, which might not, just maybe. There ought to be a term for folks taking this sort of approach to perceiving the world. I think I'll go with "activist deniers".
Pentagon/FBI reports include the sworn testimony of a Defense Department civilian employee assigned to military intelligence units who described an incident where interrogators "took a Koran, threw it on the floor and stepped on it,"
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Other evidence and reports (eg photo of the New Testament tank - recently scrubbed from the Marine Corps site...duh) - of acts guaranteed to engender hatred towards American forces (and America) are so numerous that the only strategy open to tico and company must center on willfull blindness and loud repetitive denial.
If US forces are going to shackle a young Afghan villager from the wire ceiling of his cell,
for days, strike him more than 100 times in a single one of those days, beat his legs until the tissue, in the corner's words, "had basically been pulpified", then such acts will have consequences for how the Muslim world regards the US.
But tico blames Newsweek.
