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| Harry Potter mania hits Guantanamo |
| 2005-08-09 |
| BOOKS about boy wizard Harry Potter have become favorite reading material among Islamic terror suspects at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to reports. Citing a librarian working at the center, the newspaper said J.K. Rowling's tales about the boy and the school of wizardry are on top of the request list for the camp's 520 Al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects, followed by Agatha Christie novels. "We've got a few who are kind of hooked on it. A couple have asked if they can see the movie," the librarian identified only as Lori is quoted by The Times as saying. Lori said she is compiling a list to provide to various lawmakers in Washington, who recently visited the prison at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay as part of a congressional delegation investigating |
| Posted by:God Save The World |
| #18 LH: I think she's more of a "libertarian hawk." |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2005-08-09 18:47 |
| #17 Sure hope they don't start stuffing them down the toilets.... Get the Dementors on 'em if they do! |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-08-09 18:04 |
| #16 Please tell me you know this from reading it to your not quiet ready for chapter books chillruns. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-08-09 17:51 |
| #15 Does this mean that JK Rowling's house is now the 1,495,231th holiest place in Islam? |
| Posted by: Matt 2005-08-09 14:32 |
| #14 I re-read the end of Book 4 right after 9/11/01...the part where Dumbledore tells the head of the Ministry of Magic, "The only one against whom I intend to fight is Lord Voldemort. If you agree, Cornelius, then we remain on the same side." |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-08-09 12:19 |
| #13 I didn't know many of them could read. What language are the Potter books written in? I think this is great to expose them to other ideas, such as libraries that have more than the Koran on the shelves. |
| Posted by: Danielle 2005-08-09 11:26 |
| #12 This could be a good thing. Get them all liquored up on Harry Potter and send then back to whence they came to infect others. Reminds me of what Picard did to the Borg. 'course it probably won't really work becase the folks back home will just kill them on arrival. |
| Posted by: Michael 2005-08-09 10:52 |
| #11 liberalhawk: Yeah, I picked up on that too. Especially the most recent one. I get the feeling that Rowling gets it. |
| Posted by: BH 2005-08-09 10:10 |
| #10 Look soon for the new book, "Harry Potter and the Electrodes on the Gonads". |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-08-09 09:47 |
| #9 There will be hell to pay if anyone of them desecrates any of the Pooter books or even handles it with unwashed hands. Kids!! Put down those peanut butter sandwiches RIGHT NOW - you might get something on the holy Potter book!! |
| Posted by: leader of the pack 2005-08-09 09:41 |
| #8 "Yeah let's have Harry Potter show the terrorists in a bad light" Have you read the book? I dont think im spoilering to say that JK Rowlings is quite aware of the WOT, and seems to be a something of a liberal hawk - Quite insistent on the importance of continuing the fight against this evil, while dissappointed that the Ministry hasnt caught Bin La- Voldemort, and that some innocents have been sent to Git - Azkaban, by a rightly tough, but excessively publicity conscious, ministry. Oh, and the Ministry has a tendency to distribute fairly useless leaflets about how to protect your family from dark forces. And of course there are plenty of Slytherins whose true loyalties are deeply unclear. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2005-08-09 09:39 |
| #7 There will be hell to pay if anyone of them desecrates any of the Pooter books or even handles it with unwashed hands. |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-08-09 08:37 |
| #6 How is that they are reading aything else but the Holy Quran? Bunch of apostates, let's have a fatwa upon them. |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-08-09 08:30 |
| #5 I have a better idea. Take pictures (yes, I said take pictures) of them holding a Harry Potter book and threaten mass distribution. Apostasy is not a silent killer. BTW, don't even come to me with that Genital Convention nonsense. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-08-09 07:19 |
| #4 Remind them that it's Non-Fiction. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-08-09 03:25 |
| #3 Send them Harry and the Electrodes |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-08-09 01:15 |
| #2 Keep them wanting more, as long as they spill the beans. |
| Posted by: Spinelet Wheasing6888 2005-08-09 01:09 |
| #1 hmmm, do I see an angle to persuade these guys? Yeah let's have Harry Potter show the terrorists in a bad light |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-08-09 01:00 |