Quran Desecration: Far Worse than Abu Ghraib
This is worse than Abu Ghraib; Abu Ghraib represents the physical and psychological torture of a few Muslims, Quran desecration represents the spiritual, emotional and psychological torture of all Muslims. To read more click.
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Freeman said...
Certainly an interesting perspective. I wonder if you would think that the U.S. government should do more to protect the Bible and punish those who desecrate it?
Or should we only be protecting the sacred texts of those religions who have the most lunatic tantrums? Or just the texts of those faithful who threaten to kill us if we don't show the proper respect?
Long before the incidents at Abu Ghraib or the Quran Desecration story was published, the American public has been the object and victim of our government's (more in particular the current administration) misdeeds, alteration of truths, underminding world interest, deceit, deception, and determination to impose American style democracy on so many other countries around the world.
The Muslim world now appears to hold every American citizen guilty of villanizing, demoralizing, and disrespecting the teachings and practice of faith derived from the Quaran.
That is far from the truth, yet for the past few decades there have been endless outburst of violence in Muslim countries who rally and demonstrate their belief that all Americans are Infidels.
The problem at large seems to be the inappropriate use of religious convictions, credenda, credo, creeds, doctrines, opinions, persuasions, precepts, principles, rules, teachings, tenets, and views of all faiths as a core instrument to initiate destruction, death, and the righteous power laid out within those beliefs with the intent to control or oppress their perspective believers.
Ultimately, leaders and high powered government officals know they can create uncontrollable emotionalism by simply igniting messages about what the will of God is.
Ordinary men and women in all countries, who practice every faith possible, are manipulated into losing sight of the Word of God. They are confused by those in power who use the Word of God to exploit, control, and instill cause to gain support from their followers.
Hi Distressed, you do have a point. While Muslims every where are upset, only those who are mobilized by politicians are rioting and dying in the protests. Religious fervor and political manipulation are indeed a deadly combination.
Freeman, as long as the US government does not desecrate the Bible, I will be happy.
Well, as you know, the goverment did subsidize "art" showing the crucifix in urine. No one died over it. Echoing the overreaction of extremists just validates their perverted value system that puts the value of life somewhere below the value of a commercially printed copy of a book.
One element lost in all the coverage of the jihadist-inspired riots is the rioters' utter hypocrisy. Their concerns for the Muslim holy book did not manifest when they burned mosques to the ground in Pakistan over the past few months. Nor did they launch demonstrations after they destroyed mosques in Iraq throughout the year. There were certainly hundreds of Korans burned into ashes. (It didn't hurt that the owners of these mosques were Shi'ites.) A couple of decades earlier, Hafez Assad's brutal brigades leveled off the mosques of the city of Hama. Thousands of Korans were destroyed (along with 20,000 Sunnis). Yet, the Arab and Islamic world didn't raise a ruckus. The selective outrage over the destroyed Korans is not theological but political. It is only when the Islamists want to wage a jihad for their holy book that infractions begin to make any difference to them. When Arab militias raids black Muslim villages in Darfur, and destroy them, along with their holy books, that is acceptable, but one sentence in an article published in a U.S. magazine deserves a whole holy war? Who are we kidding here?
Hi Freeman,
Your response just proved what I was thinking. Simply because you have lost all respect for your Bible, you expect others to follow suit. That is why you cannot understand how muslims feel about thier holy book.
That is the kind of arrongance that irks me. You expect people to do things your way.
It is only a people who respect thier holy book that do not desecrate others holy books.
Putting the cross in urine is the minimum that I expect from a morally decadent society like that. I bet there is more to follow.
But that is what you chose to make of your religion. Pls keep that spiritually empty life to yourselves and do not paint us with the same brush.
Wow! A spiritually empty life? Hmmm? How do you know? And how easily your cast your pile of rocks at the Christian faith, probably knowing very little about it. Many of us have great respect for the Bible. It is read daily and many congregations stand for the reading of our Word. As it stands, 36 percent of the world claims Christianity as their faith. We are a merry mix, but so are your many sects of Islam.
In the USA we believe in freedom of speech, which you may freely exercise on this blog. That freedom includes your right to burn my flag and not be punished. That freedom, also does not give you the right to stifle my freedom to speak regarding your respective religious belief. The pendulum must swing both ways. It should swing smoothly and without offense. Those who are masters of the craft, are able to engage the dialogue without offense. The less mature, resort to whining and insult.
Democracy does present a loaded gun at times, sometimes wielded wisely, other times unwisely, in the hand that doth possess it. But to stifle freedom of speech, removes the firing pin from the weapon. It becomes lame and impotent. One must be free to express their thoughts without fear of retribution. That is what makes America great.
Tammy the Mushrihak or should you prefer, the Kafirah
That would be "Mushrikah" which is feminine singular.
As an aside, Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Al- Qushayree may have died in 875 C.E. in Nishapur, but his collected works still ring true. Some of us 9,200 collected Hadith have to do with good character. Part of good character, the manner in which one speaks to fellow man. Once again, free speech carries rights but also responsibilities.
Tammy Swofford
Let me be clear, I personally was offended by the crucifix in urine "art", as I'm sure most Christians were. But there are much more important issues in the world. "ibi" hit it right on the head. Where was the outrage among muslims when the taliban destroyed ancient buddhist artifacts?
You may call it western arrogance, but to me the reaction to this alleged incident demonstrates the massive inferiority complex of the muslim world. If this were a historic qur'an, hand painted antiquity or something like that, the whole world would share your disappointment or even anger. But in all likelihood this was a commercially printed copy, probably purchased in bulk by the US government. Order up another print run and get on with it.
Not to disrupt your self-congratulatory discussions, but there were plenty of condemnations of the Taliban:
Islam Online mentions many, and there is a great article here by Mohammed Hashim Kamali. Also plenty more such as the one by Azizah al-Hibri of Karamah and plenty more.
So to make a blanket condemnation of "the Muslims" is without cause, considering a cursory search online shows otherwise. Even this archived article from a punjabi publication clearly mentions that the OIC condemned what the taliban was doing, and tried (although unsuccessfully) to get them to stop.
I believe that torturing Muslim prisoners with the Quran is simply wrong. The Quran is different than the bible, in that it is literally the word of God to all Muslims. Even though the desecration of the Quran is used to get information, it is just making more people in the Islamic world angry. Most of these prisoners have committed or been a part of terrorist attacks, it does not legitimize torturing them when the most sacred part of their religion. It makes the rest of the world think that Americans are unsympathetic to Muslims. Every time an American degrades the Quran, it just makes more Muslims angry. If we are trying to win the war on terror, we need to work with the prisoners, even if we cannot change their minds, we will lessen the chance of other Muslims having animosity towards Americans.
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