[Leica] OT: Koran Desecrations at Gitmo

[feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)]

On Jun 8, 2005, at 6:36 PM, Eric Ladner wrote:

> Those beliefs are not harmed or lessened by offensive treatment of the 
> books that promulgate them or the flag that represents them. They are 
> far stronger than that.
> I bet that if, when one of these "desecrations" occurs, everyone said, 
> "Duh, what a jerk!" and got on with more important things, the 
> desecrators would get bored and give up.
> --Eric (and my M3 agrees with me)


I don't think that is quite how it works. Recently on NPR they had a 
muslim lady
on trying to explain why mistreatment of the Koran was so offensive to 
them. If I
understood her correctly, to a muslim, the Koran may as well be a piece 
of god
or Mohammed himself. To them mistreating the Koran is about the same as 
if
you had a piece Jesus' hair and set it on fire.

May not make a whole lot of sense to you or me, but hey, it's their 
culture.


Feli


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