Wow,this is all it takes to piss of a 7th century islam-o Neanderthal? It is probably fiction but this is what passes for news. Our wonderful American socialist should create the WHA-TV network. {We Hate America} I think I have some new reading material for my future constitutional!
Rachel Zoll
Montreal Gazette
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
NEW YORK - - The Koran is the most sacred object in the daily lives of Muslims and mistreating it is considered an offence against God, fuelling outrage over claims that the holy book was desecrated at U.S. bases.
Islam teaches that the Koran is the direct word of God, received by the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel, and it defines the belief and conduct for followers of the religion.
The Koran is so important in the faith that Islamic teaching spells out how it should be handled, including directing anyone who touches it to be in a state of ritual purity.
"The respect we show God, we show that same respect to the Koran, very much like Christians would treat Jesus himself," said Imam Yahya Hendi, chaplain at Georgetown University.
Newsweek reported a Koran was allegedly flushed down a toilet by interrogators at the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, sparking deadly riots in the Muslim world. The magazine retracted the report Monday, though ex-prisoners have claimed in the past that Americans abused the holy book and another report surfaced this week.
Putting a Koran in a toilet would be especially disturbing because Islam teaches that Muslims, after using the bathroom, must wash before touching the book.
"We would never even walk into a bathroom
For Muslims, desecrating Koran dishonours God
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