No Evidence Of Quran Abuse Involving Urination

Despite the headlines: U.S.: Gitmo Quran Was Splashed With Urine and the hyperbole, even within at least one "editorial" posted at the Blogger News Network, there is absolutely no evidence of deliberate "Koran abuse" involving urination.

One needs to read about ten paragraphs down to find the only currently existing documentation of any truth in the matter.

In the March incident, as described in the report, the guard had left his observation post to go outside to urinate. The wind blew his urine through an air vent into the cell block. The guard's supervisor reprimanded him and assigned him to gate guard duty, where he had no contact with detainees, for the rest of his assignment at Guantanamo Bay.

Whether you believe the soldier, or not, based upon what we do know, a few things can be said with some certainly.

To "abuse" is to: use wrongly or improperly; misuse - even deliberately urinating through an air vent into an inmates cell would not qualify as "Koran abuse" as there was really never any willful act directed specifically at any Koran.

For heavens sake, half the drunken lefties loving this meme probably can't even urinate on a Saturday night without lifting, or otherwise missing a toilet seat, let alone urinate down through an air vent and hit a book they were targeting. This is laughable and can be classified as nothing more than an accident as regards the Koran.

The other and perhaps more important issue here is what the report actually tells us about the military. Taking the soldier at his word, he made a poor judgment by urinating too near an air vent - believe him, or no, for that he was reprimanded and assigned new duty preventing any contact with prisoners.

That hardly represents the face of a Koran loathing out of control military looking for opportunity to insult a world religion. It depicts a responsible and responsive military nobly carrying out its duties under conditions most of us will never have to endure.

Finally, the editorial mentioned above suggests some validity to the recent Newsweek story involving Koran abuse. Again, nothing could be further from the truth. There is nothing, absolutely NOTHING known so far that in any way justifies the shoddy reporting of Newsweek which led to several deaths resulting from subsequent protests in the Middle-East.

In contrast, the prompt and perhaps even overboard, if it was only an accident, disciplining of the soldier involved in the urination incident only serves to prove that the United States military is the mature, responsible and fair actor on this current stage, not the MSM as personified by the Newsweek story, or editorial writers with some Axe of their own to grind.

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Comments

[Jerry]

In the newspaper this morning they said that Joran v/d Slooten was cooperating with the police, while the brothers are holding hard (they won't speak nothing). Now like I said earlier Natalee seems to be dead and burried somewhere or they've trown her into the sea.