20 June 2005 >> Am I the only one wondering why the ACLU is not suing the Federal government over the Korans at Guantanamo Bay?

As everybody’s probably aware by now, our tax dollars are used to purchase and distribute Korans to incarcerated Islamists. That’s in addition to the prayer mats, the five-times-a-day announcements for prayer, the signs pointing towards Mecca, and the gloves that our infidel military personnel must wear so their unclean hands don’t defile the Muslim holy book by touching it directly.

This, for some reason, is perfectly acceptable in the same country where Christmas trees are removed from public squares because they supposedly violate the separation between church and state.

It’s funny that we show more respect to the religions of people trying to destroy this country than we do to the religions of the people who founded it.

20 June 2005 >> Mark Steyn has some thoughts on music, torture, Korans and Guantanamo:

The first time the full-blast junk-pop treatment caught the eye of the media was a decade and a half back, when US troops bombarded the Panamanian strongman General Noriega with the Bobby Fuller Four’s “I Fought The Law (And The Law Won)”. In those days, nobody reckoned it was torture. But these days torture seems to be in the ear of the behearer. Because the jihadi find western culture depraved — and I’m not necessarily in disagreement on that, at least where Christina Aguilera’s concerned — we’re obliged to be extra-super-duper-sensitive with them.

Says who? Again, the more one hears the specifics of the “insensitivity” of the American regime at Guantanamo, the more many of us reckon we’re being way too sensitive. For example, camp guards are under instructions to handle copies of the Koran only when wearing gloves. The reason for this is that the detainees regard infidels as “unclean”. Fair enough, each to his own. But it’s one thing for the Islamists to think infidels are unclean, quite another for the infidels to agree with them. Far from being tortured, the prisoners are being handled literally with kid gloves (or simulated kid-effect gloves). The US military hand each jihadi his complimentary copy of the Koran as delicately as white-gloved butlers bringing His Lordship The Times of London. When I bought a Koran to bone up on Islam a couple of days after 9/11, I didn’t wear gloves to the bookstore. If that’s “disrespectful” to Muslims, tough. You should have thought about that before you allowed your holy book to become the central motivation for global jihad.