What Moslems mean by “desecrating” the Koran

The below detail from the New York Times gives an idea of how far we infidel Americans must go to avoid offending Moslem sensibilities. It’s not enough for us infidels to refrain from damaging or desecrating the Koran in any way; we must not even touch it. Since the matter under discussion is guards and prisoners in a top security military prison where cells are subject to constant searches, for guards not even to touch the prisoners’ possessions is quite a tall order:

Erik Saar, a co-author of the book “Inside the Wire” and an Arabic language translator at Guantánamo from January to June 2003, said in an interview Monday that while he “never saw anything along the lines of a Koran being flushed down a toilet,” the issue of how guards and interrogators handled the book was a chronic problem.

“It was one of the things that kept resurfacing because guards had to inspect the cells occasionally for contraband,” Mr. Saar said. He said that commanders tried to deal with detainees’ sensitivity about the Koran in several ways, including enlisting some of the Muslims working for the military as translators to handle the books during inspections, so that nonbelievers would not touch the books. But that was not always done, he said, and there was no regular policy. The issue “created friction and problems all the time,” he said.

So what’s next? Will the “brilliant” Condoleezza Rice apologize to Moslems for all those terrible incidents in which American guards touched the Koran? Will ABC’s Nightline run a show in which those little America-hating apparatchniks, Chris Bury (the bland) and John Donvan (the whiny), unctuously repeat about fifty times, as they did on last night’s program, that America has a problem with its “image” in the Moslem world? We have a problem? Half the Moslem world supports the jihadist murderers of Westerners, and we have a problem with our image?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 17, 2005 09:03 AM | Send