[lit-ideas] Re: The cat is out of the bag
- From: Brian <cabrian@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:39:25 -0500
Excerpt:
The oh-so-irenic media seem to delight in inflaming Muslims by
letting them know what America has said or done that should inflame
them. The media express anger that George Bush has "alienated" the
Muslim world while they simultaneously distort what Bush has done in
the war on terrorism so as to guarantee that alienation. This is a
very cynical game, and it has caught up with at least one publication
now, Newsweek.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8174
Cheers,
~Brian~
On May 17, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Andreas Ramos wrote:
> One problem for the United States is that the Newsweek article was
> not the first to report
> allegations that the Koran had been desecrated at the Guantanamo
> facility.
>
> In March 2003, Afghan men who had been freed from the prison told
> reporters in Kabul that
> American soldiers had taunted them by sitting on the Koran or
> dumping it into a toilet.
> Imran Khan, a Pakistani politician, cited those earlier reports in
> a telephone interview
> Tuesday. Newsweek was not the only source to report the desecration
> of the Koran and Islamic
> faith," said Khan, who, according to Newsweek, sparked the protests
> by brandishing a copy of
> the magazine at a May 6 news conference. "Scores of eyewitnesses
> accounts have been
> reported. The cat is out of the bag."
>
> yrs,
> andreas
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