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PhantomSgt · Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 7:34 pm Post subject:

shawa · CNO Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 2004

After the White House demanded it, Newsweek has issued a retraction!!
IMO, too late. How do you retract the deaths and the damage done to
U.S. Military???

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050516/ap_on_re_us/newsweek_quran

scotty61 · LCDR Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 419 Location: Glyndon MN

joeshero · Commander Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 321 Location: Midwest

Why is it so big deal? When people burn bibles or throw them into garbages, I don't mad with it. I don't get it. Do we see killings because of Dan Brown's book? Well, years ago an editor of magazine in Indonesia was almost killed because he published a poll about the most popular people in the country. His sin was: the Islamic prophet was number 6 in the poll and people over there were really angry and ransacked his office. The government banned his magazine and he was put in jail for 5 years. The public actually demanded his head.

They said it is a religion of peace. Yeah....yeah. Actuallty, there is something inherently unhealthy about this.
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Snipe · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 12:24 pm Post subject:

I guess that to prevent future atrocities, that we should pick up all
of the copies of the Koran that we gave those prisoners and send
them back to the publisher.

Twisted Evil

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I B Squidly · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 7:21 pm Post subject:

The metaphysics of getting God's Word into written form usually requires a suspension of disbelief. The Koran requires the suspension of derision. The Hebrew Torah was revealed in a burning bush though I think Moses was just trying to put the fear of God into an unruly mob. The Book of Mormon was 'discovered' while poking around indian mounds in the Ohio Valley. The Christian Gospels are the words of the apostles. Confucious wrote his aphorisms without reference to a diety. Buddha, Lao Tsu and Ecclesiates questioned the knowability of the divine. Mohammed said the Lord spoke to him on the bones of goats. Anytime he wanted to push a new argument or add another wife he'd just go out in the desert and get another bone to support his position. Of course, he never saved any of these bones or showed them to any one 'cause the dog ate them.

Mohammed was a gifted writer with a social agenda. He surveyed existing faiths and deliberatly crafted one to unify the arabs in opposition to Persian hegemony. He was especially enamored of the resilient faith of the Hebrews and incorporated many elements. Like a spurned lover he developed an unremitting hatred for the Jews when they did not accept him as a later day patriarch.

Mecca was a holy city long before Mohammed and his mother were driven from it in a family squabble. His revenge and his cult got its start in piracy by looting the pilgims traveling there.
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Armybrat/Armymom · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 6:19 pm Post subject:

When the Bible or anything to do with Christianity is spit upon, trashed or lied about, we are told it is "their (the protestor's)" freedom of speech that is of utmost importance. Any kind of reaction from Christians is frowned upon. I'm not condoning Newsweek's lying BUT the Muslims reactions are of their own choosing. Violence is their way of responding to anything they don't like. (my observation)

Yes, Newsweek needs to be made accountable for their lack of ???? (wisdom, integrity, ethics, etc) and they need to be given more than a tap on the hands. Plus they need to make a HUGE apology to the soldiers who have been put in harm's way "for a story".

Tom Poole · Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 1:18 am Post subject:

If this has already been posted, please accept my apology. But, I wonder why NewsWeek didn't report these facts along with their "errors." You'd think that any vigorous and thorough journalist like Isikoff would have used the usual comparisons.

Saudis Shred Bibles, Rights Campaigners Claim
By Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com International Editor, May 19, 2005
(CNSNews.com) -- Bibles found in the possession of visitors to Saudi Arabia are routinely confiscated by customs officials, and in some cases copies allegedly have been put through a paper shredder, according to religious rights campaigners. Reports from the Islamic world of the abuse of Bibles and other items important to Christians emerge from time to time, but generally have little impact - in contrast to the wave of Muslim anger sparked by a Newsweek report, since retracted, of Koran desecration by the U.S. military. "The Muslims respect the Koran far more than Christians respect the Bible," says Danny Nalliah, a Sri Lankan-born evangelical pastor now based in Australia. During the 1990s, Nalliah spent two years in Saudi Arabia, where he was deeply involved with the underground church. "It's a very well-known fact that if you have a Bible at customs when you enter the airport, and if they find the Bible, that the Bible is taken and put in the shredder," he said in an interview this week. "If you have more than one Bible you will be taken into custody, and if you have a quantity of Bibles you will be given 70 lashes for sure - you could even be executed."...The Rest of the Story
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