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To: Ilaine who wrote (113858)	5/15/2005 12:11:12 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

therefore newsweek knew the kind of uproar this would cause and yet they defend their actions.

To: Ilaine who wrote (113858)	5/15/2005 12:44:02 PM
From: Bridge Player	Respond to of 793917

Was there something about my original post that may have caused you to think I have no comprehension of desecration? Sorry if I was misunderstood.

To: Ilaine who wrote (113858)	5/15/2005 3:45:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

Anybody who doesn't understand that Muslims all over the world will react to an American flushing a Koran down a toilet at Gitmo is a moron. No, strike that, it's unkind to morons. A fool. If you don't comprehend desecration, then you have no sense of the sacred. React how? Are we to just accept that Muslims like all like human time bombs, any little thing will set'em off? The riots and the killings are just to be expected, they can't help themselves? Sorry, I'm not buying.

To: Ilaine who wrote (113858)	5/16/2005 11:38:54 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

I think it is perfectly foreseeable that Muslims would riot and kill upon learning of Koran desecrations at Guantanamo. There are lots of subtle reasons why we may be puzzled at the Muslim reaction which has little to do with our perceptions of what is and what is not reasonable. A few of these reasons include shame that the flower of Islamic militancy is under our control in an unassailable prison; the fact that the desecration may have been done as part of an effort to interrogate; the fact that the Koran enjoys IMO a higher status in Islam than the Bible does in Christianity; the fact that Islam is indubitably a much more violent religion than any global mainstream religion, etc. But the fact that the reaction is perfectly foreseeable does in no way justify it. No one should die because someone allegedly desecrated a holy thing or committed adultery or is an "apostate" or a Jew. No one should ever be killed in the name of religion. Of course, this conflicts with many of Islam's core tenets.