Word: koran
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...your report on Newsweek's botched item on mistreatment of the Koran at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay [May 30]: The media have let themselves be bamboozled by the Bush Administration once again. Officials concentrated on putting out stories about how Newsweek got it wrong, and we lost sight of the story of the desecration of the Koran. Our mainstream media outlets are much too quick with the mea culpas. How about a little tenacity when it comes to standing up to the White House? Shouldn't Bush's spotty National Guard record have been pursued instead...
...believe the alleged maltreatment of the Koran took place, and I think everyone in the White House and the Pentagon knows the charge to be true. But Newsweek's flawed story was useful to the Administration as a handy distraction from the bad news coming out of Iraq, the failure of the President's Social Security overhaul and the Administration's ongoing assault on the environment...
...interrogation was going nowhere. So in late November 2002, according to an 84-page secret interrogation log obtained by TIME, al-Qahtani's questioners switched gears. They suggested to their captive that he had been spared by Allah in order to reveal the true meaning of the Koran and help bring down bin Laden...
...second order of business is creating what Universal calls an "Islamic environment." The Koran and the sayings of Muhammad are taught two days a week, Arabic three days a week. Grades 2 to 12 break for prayer once a day. Beyond Scripture, a Muslim approach influences the traditional curriculum as well. When teacher Fuzia Jarad's English class read Romeo and Juliet, the girls wanted to know, "Is it love at first sight?" "Yes," the teacher answered. "As Muslims, we don't do that. The difference is lust versus love; appearance versus knowing. Islam protects you from mistakes." For assistant...
...KORAN BEEN DESECRATED? The U.S. has been investigating allegations of mishandling of the Koran, including the charge by at least one detainee that U.S. personnel threw the holy book in a toilet. As of last week, the inquiry, led by Brigadier General Jay W. Hood, had found five instances in which a guard or interrogator mishandled the Koran-although Hood would not explain exactly how-all but one before January 2003, when explicit rules about the Koran were established. But Hood's team found no credible evidence that one was ever tossed in a toilet. Three incidents were probably deliberate...