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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-05 03:44 PM
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Today is when the Muslims protest the desecration of the Quran
Any mention of this from the Western media?
Other than smart put-downs

May 27, 2005
I thought of Captain Wright's denial when I heard Mark Whitaker of Newsweek retract his story of American interrogators flushing a Koran down a toilet -- a story which helped fuel deadly riots across the Muslim world. For it is unlikely that Whitaker's retraction will convince Muslims that their religion is not under attack any more than British denials about the cartridge grease stemmed the mutiny.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/05/27/why_muslims_distrust_the_west/

to valid questions.

Thursday, 26, May, 2005 (17, Rabi` al-Thani, 1426)
Finally, you take aim at our religion by humiliating our beliefs. You abuse our book, use our convictions to torture us and degrade us, disregarding your own laws and religion which is as noble as ours and to which torture and humiliation is anathema.
What were you thinking when you threw the Qur’an in the toilet or when you used religion as a means of torture? I fail to see the efficacy of such actions in the so-called war on terror. These methods only point to a deep sickness in your society to which it will take decades for us and the rest of the world to understand its cause and to measure its destructive results. No, the question which someday will have to be answered is why, why do you the Americans hate us the Muslims so much?
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=64357&d=26&m=5&y=2005
http://www.altmuslim.com/perm.php?id=1462_0_25_0_C
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