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spooked Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-05 08:35 PM
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Read Detainees' First-Hand Accounts of Appalling Koran Abuse Here
Edited on Wed May-25-05 09:14 PM by spooked
http://www.as-sahwah.com/viewarticle.php?articleID=1229&pageID=455&pageID=457&

"The situation deteriorated further, when a group of the MP’s marked their departure by writing obscenities in copies of the Muslims’ holy book. ‘They were leaving after a ten month term. They wrote ‘F*** off, F*** you.’ in the Qur`ans’."

"Nothing compared to the agony of seeing the Qur`an defiled, Ahmad told Aljazeera. I could bear all the obscene abuse and all the beatings but I was agonised to see one US soldier stomp on the Holy Qur`an, while another soldier in Kandahar threw it into the toilet," he said. While in detention at Bagram air base, Ahmad recounted how a female soldier entered his cell to search him. She had brought a dog with her and she proceeded to give the dog the Qur`an to sniff through."

"Captives at the Guantلnamo Bay prison are alleging that guards kicked and stomped on Korans and cursed Allah, and that interrogators punished them by taking away their pants, knowing that would prevent them from praying. Guards also mocked captives at prayer and censored Islamic religious books, the captives allege. And in one incident, they say, a prison barber cut a cross-shaped patch of hair on an inmate's head."

http://www.as-sahwah.com/viewarticle.php?articleID=1229&pageID=454&

NEXT STRIKE CAUSED BY QUR’ANS BEING PLACED IN ‘SHIT’ BUCKETS

"One of the reasons for the second hunger strike which occurred around June/July2002 (by my reckoning, we were not allowed to know the time or the date) was the desecration of the Qur`an. One of the Arabs explained to me that brothers had been used in Kandahar detention facility (the same I was held in) to empty the "shit buckets" (I don’t mean to use profanity but that is what the soldiers called them), one if not more actually saw a copy of the "Uthmani" Qur`an dunked in the faeces and urine in a "shit bucket", which could only have been done by a soldier. The brother that told me this also expressed his grief that they could not do anything to retrieve it."

"One brother in the same section as I...wanted to pass his Qur`an to a brother just five meters away from him except that he had no means without resorting to asking the MPs to do it. He did just that. They could not understand him because he did not speak English or could not make himself understood if he did. So they brought over a translator. A Maronite Christian Lebanese Arab interpreter whom I believe was named: Dirke. This character took the pocket sized Qur`an from the abductee held it in his left hand. And with the back of his right hand slapped the Qur`an repeatedly saying repeatedly, in English for his comrades to hear (who, male and female, found it chucklingly amusing), "Why do you want to pass this SHIT around, why do you want to pass this SHIT around?" I swear by Allah! I witnessed this clearly, not ten metres away from me, with my own eyes and ears. I swear by Allah."

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spooked Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-05 09:24 PM
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1. Even Pope John Paul II kissed the Holy Koran in 1999
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-05 11:08 PM
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2. Wow, that sucks n/t
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spooked Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-05 05:54 AM
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3. It most certainly does
When will the American press report the TRUTH?
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