Hardliners reject Koran apology

[Zorra]

(From BBC)

Hardline Islamic parties in Pakistan say an apology by a US magazine over a story about a desecration of the Koran is a crude bid to ease Muslim anger.

Newsweek said US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet. It now says it erred in reporting the story.

But White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the decision not to issue a full retraction was "puzzling".
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"There have been reports by the prisoners who have been released from Guantanamo Bay of desecration of the holy Koran, and different atrocities perpetrated on them. Therefore, the clarification of Newsweek has no meaning."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4553015.stm

[htuttle]

1. Buzzword alert! "Hardliners"

You see, because they have separate and additional sources of information other than Newsweek, they are Hardliners.

"There have been reports by the prisoners who have been released from Guantanamo Bay of desecration of the holy Koran, and different atrocities perpetrated on them. Therefore, the clarification of Newsweek has no meaning."

[bpilgrim]

11. ME not happy with Newsweek selling out either... --------------> IMAGE

http://images.globalfreepress.com

peace

[katsy]

2. Seeing that these hardline Islamics haven't

drank the kool-aid... I buy that.

It's a sad state of affairs when ALL news coming from abroad seems to be more credible than american msm.

[Rosco T.]

3. Looks like KKKarl's little ploy may have backfired... n/m

[Richard D]

4. My suggestion

Print up a few tens of thousand of toilet paper with *'s picture on it and ship it to Afganistan.

[Rainscents]

5. I love your tolit paper roll... where can I buy it? LOL

[Richard D]

9. Wish I had it to sell

Just photoshop stuff.

[Rainscents]

10. Great photoshop photo!

[Richard D]

15. Thank you

It's fun too.

[m0nkeyneck]

6. must have been a powerful toilet...

"Insulting the Koran or the Prophet Muhammad is regarded as blasphemy and punishable by death in both Pakistan and Afghanistan."

killing over a book and a myth.. wow

i wonder how long b4 insulting the bible and jebus will be punishable in the US.

Stupid things ppl fight over; how embarrassing it is to be human 2day

[Massachusetts]

7. The Genie is already OUT of the bottle...To Late!

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. It's the torture, stupid

Flushing the Koran down the toilet is just the tip of the iceberg. Raping women, covering prisioners in their own feces, using attack dogs, sensory deprivation, verbal abuse all add up to TORTURE. There was a time we didn't do that in the US.

[old blue]

13. nail on head

Yep. Even if, somehow, this Newsweek report is *not* ultimately based on truth, the White House invited this type of suspicion from both domestic and foreign media outlets the very minute it appointed Al Gonzales as AG.

[LiberallyInclined]

12. I. Am. Shocked.

whaddya mean they don't believe that the heart-felt retraction was really and truly genuine(cross our hearts and hope you die)...?
someone oughta really flush a koran down the toilet- that would show'em-

woouldn't it...?

[PurityOfEssence]

14. What about this GRAVEN IMAGE CRAP?

Unless everybody's forgotten about it, it needs to be reminded that Islam takes the "graven images" concept very literally. As such, there is no image of Mohammed to be seen and even a biopic bearing his name can't show his image. If that's the case, that idolatry isn't to be allowed, then why is a book more sacred than any golden calf ever seems to have been? Is this not a huge inconsistency?

[megatherium]

16. not as big an inconsistency as the usual muslim attitude towards

other religions: Islam traditionally tolerates "religions of the Book" (Judaism and Christianity), albeit with limited rights; but Islam traditionally does not tolerate polytheism (Hinduism). These traditional Islamic precepts are the law in a variety of countries. More, in Saudi Arabia, no one is allowed to possess a Bible, and Christian worship even in private is not permitted. Saudi Arabia will not knowingly allow Jews to enter the kingdom. Critics of Islam, such as Ibn Warriq ("Why I am Not a Muslim", Prometheus Press), have noted the hypocrisy of muslims who react with outrage at insults to their own religion but who often show disrespect towards other religions.

[underpants]

17. ABC had a Islamic man last night who saw right through this

http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=762798

Above is the link to the ABC WNT story but it strangely doesn't include the quote from a "man on the street" in Afghanistan or Iraq-he said"This seems to be deliberately done by the US government to set up this magazine to take the fall" something like that