Davidi touch it all the time too.
so some guards touched the qoran at gtmo. or sing sing. or in afghanistan. or wherever.
i just don’t give a shit.
i think it sets a dangerous example to let the muslims believe they can make some hokey claim like
it’s degrading to islam for an ifidel to touch the qoran
or
it’s abusive to captured terrorists to see a non-muslim guard touching it.
or any of the rest of their bullshit for that matter.
it’s dangerous to let them say, infidels can’t do it because they’re infidels, and expect us to obey.
so i’m jumping on this bandwagon right now.
i’m christian, and i can’t stop touching it. i would never rip pages from my persoanl copy of the qoran (no thy enemy) and flush them though, because i PAID for it. if you have a qoran in YOUR bathrrom and invite me over…… you might want to hide the qoran at least until after my visit is over.
what?! you’re muslim you say? i’m offending you?
be offended.
see if you can guess which part of my body i am touching the qoran with now!
They did change the rules,after some questionable incidents, about how US mil personnel ought to handle it. You wouldn’t disobey orders, would you?
And aren’t you the same guy who bitched about people protesting Bush at a cemetary? Wasn’t that out of a similar, not-quite-rational sense of cultural sacredness?
It’s just a grassy area with corpses buried underneath = it’s just someone’s religious book.
people protesting bush at a cemetary? not me. have you been moonlighting on other blogs?
they changed the rules? yeah, dumbass, that’s the point i’m making. they shouldn’t have.
Well, the Geneva Conventions were already in place. If you have a problem with them, then you automatically are not an honorable person.
Oops, you’re right, that must have been on the local conservative’s blog that I used to play at before I found yours. You’re still my favorite, though 🙂
the geneva conventions do not cover extra national guerillas. closest definition that fits the alqaeda fighters in gtmo is that of rebel.
and the geneva conventions have a very dim view of rebels.
the geneva conventions also do not say anything about touching holy books. get your facts straight before you spout off please.
The Geneva Conventions don’t mention a lot of things specifically, but they do mention that you have to respect a person’s religious views and practices, insorfar as that is practicable.
Just because they’re extra-national they don’t deserve the same human rights protections? How convenient! But alas, not honorable.
when they respect human life, I’ll respect their religion.
respecting religious views does not make a violation of human rightsd to touch someone elses holy book.
i have a feeling our views on what are human rights are different. especially taking into consideration how the utter vast majority of ‘human rights’ organizations are schills for liberal parties.
they have no respect from me.
nor do muslims.
Holy shite, are you guys serious? Wow…
So what *is* your idea of human rights? In what brilliant way does it differ from, say, Amnesty Int’l? Here’s their website for comparison’s sake:
http://www.amnesty.org/
Shills for liberal parties? Man, you have gone over the line of insanity. Human rights are international, universal in scope, and if you’re not for them, then you really are a fascitst hoodlum. PLEASE read their website and educate yourself.
Are you aware of the degree to which you are overgeneralizing about Muslims? The 9-11 hijackers, mostly Saudis, were all from the Wahabbi sect, were they not? So first of all, how many Wahabbis have *not* tried to kill us? Then find out how many other sects have not tried to kill us. Many of the rebels in Iraq may be Sunnis, but they’re pissed off mostly because they were Bathhists, a non-religious political group who held sway in Saddam’s govt. Anyway, even most Sunnis around the globe have not tried to kill us or our soldiers, either. Nor did the Taliban ever attack our country, we attacked them for giving succor to Al-Queda.
What makes Muslims most paranoid is that this really is a religious war/Crusade that we’re waging. It behooves us to separate in our mind a whole religion from some of its practitioners who have their own problems with us. We don’t need the enitre Muslim world against us (any more then they already are for our years of unquestioning support of Israel, now thankfully coming to an end, knock on wood).
And just what makes Christians or Americans so worthy of your respect? How many people have Christians slaughtered over the ages? How many people did US GI’s slaughter at My-Lai?
Weren’t Nazis Christian? Yes:
http://www.nobeliefs.com/speeches.htm
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_16_121/ai_n8702389