More On Koran Desecration
According to Worldview on Chicago Public Radio today, there has been significant desectration of the Koran at Guantanimo, it was only in the Newsweek case that it was unproven. According to the NPR report, the information came from a senior level official at Guantanimo, and Newsweek showed the information to two other senior officials, and they did not deny it.
posted by Immoral Majority at 11:20 AM
2 Comments:
I make no distinction between desecration of the Quran, desecration of the Bible, and desecration of the American Flag.
I also have no problem with any of these desecrations, since they are merely symbols for something else. My beliefs are pissed on daily.. I urge everyone to just get over it.
Sunday, 22 May, 2005
I think that if a person wishes to desecrate the Quran or the Bible or the flag, that is fine, but when officials of the US government, such as interrogators in Guantanimo Bay, use such desecration as a means of humilating their prisoners, that is an entirely different issue. I don't think that individuals in such positions of power, such as the interogators in Guantanimo Bay, have the same freedom of speech rights while they are on duty. Flushing the Quran down a toilet in this case is not free speech, it is intimidation. If the same people wanted to flush a Quran while not on duty in the prison, I would have nothing to say about it.
I tend to not really take it too personally when people insult my beliefs. Everyone has the right to their own opinions.
Many Christian conservatives disagree with this. There is a book called Lie: Evolution written by a conservative Christian Ken Ham, in which he asserts, using deeply flawed logic, that simply allowing anyone to have beliefs which contradict his own is itself a violation of his rights. He believes in Creation, and that no one else should be allowed to disagree, and so for anyone to disagree would infringe on his own beliefs. The flaw in his logic, of course, is that he is perfectly welcome to believe that everyone should agree with him, he is just not allowed to try to force them to do so. I think this is one of the many problems with Christian ideology.
Monday, 23 May, 2005
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