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June 06, 2005
Figured This Would Happen
Don't get me wrong. I want us to do the right thing. I don't think there should be a policy that permits interrogators to treat the Qur'an like it was, oh, a Bible discovered in the Saudi airport customs line. But when it comes to the revelations of these Gitmo tales, I cannot care as much as they would like me to care. I cannot. Not to say we should treat the Qur’an with casual disrespect. But if an infidel touches the book with the wrong hand and people react like a two-year-old whose peas are touching the mashed potatoes, well, I understand why this matters, but when measured against the sins of headchoppery and carbombs, it pales to an evanescent translucence. Odd how the story isn’t about the rules and the precautions and the spine-cracking efforts to bend over backwards to make sure infidels get out the tongs when approaching the sacred book of the terrori – sorry, the detainees - Sorry, the murderous gynophobic gay-hating fundamentalist theocratic cultural imperialists.Read the whole thing. He's on fire, as Ace would say.
Posted by slublog at June 6, 2005 04:25 PM
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Yes, he's terrific, and I'm glad all his "screeds" will be easily located in their own section from now on. I was worried when he kept talking about moving to Arizona, that Lileks was going through some male menopause thing and just might give up altogether on writing and opining. But this piece is right in his best style.
Posted by: Wanda at June 6, 2005 06:58 PM