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| Bombers doing far worse to Quran |
| 2005-06-29 |
| Why the furor, mostly unfounded, over the mistreatment of the Quran at Guantanamo? The terrorists are stepping up their murderous campaign aganist flesh and blood people worldwide. That's the outrage. By Deroy Murdock For all the grief America is suffering over Guantanamo, U.S. soldiers there might as well have flushed 1,001 Qurans down 1,001 toilets -- live on Al-Jazeera TV. Newsweek's May 15 retraction of its false and deadly Quran-in-the-can story has worked as well as a severed brake line in slowing calls by Democrats (and some wobbly Republicans) to padlock the terrorist detention facility. Illinois' Dick Durbin, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, infamously compared Gitmo to the Soviet gulag, Nazi concentration camps and the Khmer Rouge's killing fields, despite the base's paucity of firing squads, gas chambers or neatly stacked human skulls. Bushophobes should squirt some of their copious bile on those who esteem devout Muslims far less than do Gitmo's guards. Leftists shriek when a GI forgets to don gloves before touching a Quran, but snore when Taliban, al-Qaida and other terrorists blast mosques to bits. Associated Press reports, among others, document how militant Islamists treat Shiite shrines with all the deference the SS showed synagogues in the 1940s. • June 1, 2005: A suicide bomber blasted the funeral of Mullah Abdul Fayaz, a moderate cleric, at his eponymous mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He killed Kabul's police chief and 20 others, while wounding 50. • Jan. 20, 2005: A suicide bomber exploded inside the Ghocha Park Mosque in Sheberghan, injuring 21. • June 30, 2003: An earlier bombing at Fayaz's mosque injured 16. To date, colleagues of the Gitmo Boys have killed 21 and wounded 89 in Afghan mosque bombings. Iraq's picture is even bloodier. Examples: • May 23, 2005: A car bomb at a Baghdad mosque killed two and wounded 22, including 11 children. • March 10, 2005: A suicide bomber detonated himself during a funeral at a Mosul mosque, murdering 47 people and injuring at least 101. • Feb. 18, 2005: On Ashoura, Shiites' holiest day, homicide bombers attacked two Baghdad mosques, killing 25 and injuring 30. • Feb. 18, 2005: A car bomb killed eight and hurt 10 at an Iskandariyah mosque. • Aug. 26, 2004: Mortar shells pummeled a Najaf mosque, killing 27 and injuring 63. • March 2, 2004: Homicide bombers, mortars and hidden explosives at mosques in Baghdad and Karbala killed 181 and wounded 573 Ashoura worshippers. • Aug. 29, 2003: A car bomb outside a Najaf mosque killed 85 and injured 140. Add the 386 killed and 970 injured in Iraq to the Afghan figures above: The terrorist pals of Guantanamo's al-Qaida and Taliban residents have butchered 407 Muslims and injured 1,059 more in these mosque attacks. After crying for these murdered and maimed Muslims, weep for the Qurans destroyed. At worst, a May 27 Pentagon probe revealed, U.S. personnel at Guantanamo mistreated Qurans on 13 occasions, only five deliberately, notwithstanding requirements that soldiers "handle the Quran as if it were a fragile piece of delicate art." In one "atrocity," a Quran was stacked atop another Quran on a TV set. Interrogators twice "either touched or stood over" the Quran during questioning. Most regrettably, a soldier relieved himself outdoors last March 25. The breeze shifted towards a cellblock, and an adjacent air duct splattered his urine onto a detainee's nearby Quran and uniform. The soldier was reprimanded and reassigned to gate-guard duty. Compare this to the Islamofascist explosions that reduce Allah's words to ashes. Muslim detainees mishandled the Quran 15 times, the Pentagon reports. One tried to annoy guards by tearing up his Quran and stuffing its pages into -- get this -- a toilet. Despite detainees' disrespect for these Qurans -- furnished by U.S. taxpayers, not the Book of the Month Club -- America remains this story's perceived villain. When will President Bush go on the offense to reverse this misperception? |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #1 Who really cares if extremists riot and kill their own people and or blow up their own people as long as it aint here? MM |
| Posted by: Mountain Man 2005-06-29 18:11 |