ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan dismissed on Tuesday as inadequate an apology and retraction by the Newsweek magazine of a report that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Koran.Aw, were your poor wittle feewings hurt?
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"The apology and retraction are not enough," Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told Reuters.
"They should understand the sentiments of Muslims and think 101 times before publishing news which hurt feelings of Muslims."
Maybe Muslims should think 1001 times before incinerating and crushing 3,000 people or slicing off the heads of aid workers.
These people burn our flag everyday and they think they have standing to demand our abasement over "desecration" of their koran?
Of course, because they consider us their slaves-to-be.
And we act like we are already!
He referred to a report in the Tuesday edition of the Pakistani daily The News that quoted Hafiz Ehsan Saeed, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, as saying that the Koran was routinely desecrated at the U.S. prison.We'll believe this terrorist? The al-Qaeda manual instructs them to lie exactly like this, because they know the left-wing media will propagate it far and wide, with glee, instead of showing the traditional self-restraint that died with the wAtergate era.
The sad thing is, the story probably really isn't true.
Which shows how little we understand the situation.
There is an official film clip taken by GIs in occupied Germany at the end of WW2, showing a giant sculpture of a swastika at one of the big Nazi stadiums -- a perfect example of fascist architecture. I forget whether it was in Munich or Berlin. In any event, the film lingers on this symbol, and then suddenly,
BOOM!
It's blown to smithereens by carefully-planted dynamite charges.
It was important, you see, to destroy the symbols of the enemy to make his defeat complete.
Nobody got all twisted up over it either.
Look, there wasn't a single decisive war in history, not one, in which the victor did not dehumanize and humiliate the enemy into completely broken submission.
Symbols are valid targets.
Indeed, they are vital.
And any complaints from the left are just crocodile tears anyway, as in their hearts they don't respect ANY "holy" book, do they?
Worldwide Muslim delusions are even worse than we imagined:
NEW YORK - Anti-American feelings are widespread in the Muslim world and extend to U.S. consumer brands, according to a report released Wednesday. It suggested the U.S. burnish its image with a change in tone and by publicizing aid programs.The reports findings are no doubt accurate, but their conclusions are ludicrous.
Consider:
Many young Muslims said they admired Osama bin Laden, while views of President Bush were uniformly negative. All focus group members rejected U.S. views of the war in Iraq, saying the United States invaded on a false premise to further its own regional goals.Ok, no surprise there, especially with all the priceless propaganda on their behalf churned out by the likes of Michael al-Moore and Newsweak, not to mention the incessant bias of Reuters, AP, AFP, CBS, and so on.
Anti-Semitic stereotypes also were noted. Focus group members saw the United States and Israel as synonymous and estimated the proportion of Jews in the U.S. population at up to 85 percent; it is 2 percent.Look, that kind of ignorance is TOTALLY UNASSAILABLE!
It's the result of massive, continual brainwashing in the Muslim world, at (our "friends", the Saudis)-funded "schools" and jihad-headquarters (mosques).
The report found negative opinions of the United States are taking a toll on U.S. companies, and that amounts of U.S. aid were massively underestimated; not one person in any focus group knew the U.S. is the world's largest donor by dollar amount.In other words, they're off by a factor of about 1000 -- 3 orders of magnitude!
"Most Egyptians and Indonesians put U.S. support for their countries over 10 years in millions; the correct figures were $7.3 billion and $1 billion, respectively," the authors said.
Wretched ingrates.
We should cut off our aid to match the level of their perceptions.
What kind of moron thinks we can get them to like us by publicizing our aid more, when the amount is already plain for all to see, yet they refuse to see it?
When asked what they wanted from the United States, focus group members said respect and aid to develop as their countries choose.Well guess what, leeches, you already get too much aid, and what have you done lately -- or ever -- to earn respect?
Robert Spencer sums it up nicely:
There is a much larger story that is getting hardly any attention at all. The gorilla in the living room that no one wants to notice, is that flushing a Qur’an down the toilet should not be grounds to commit murder.I'm happy to say it.
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Neither one says anything whatsoever about a culture that condones — celebrates —wanton murder of innocent people, mayhem, and destruction in response to the alleged and unproven destruction of a book.
The question here is one of proportionate response. If a Qur’an had indeed been flushed, Muslims would have justifiably been offended. They may justifiably have considered the perpetrators boors, or barbarians, or hell-bound unbelievers. They may justifiably have issued denunciations accordingly. But that is all. To kill people thousands of miles away who had nothing to do with the act, and to fulminate with threats and murder against the entire Western world, all because of this alleged act, is not just disproportionate. It is not just excessive. It is mad. And every decent person in the world ought to have the courage to stand up and say that it is mad.
