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| POWs to be dealt with as per Islamic law: Sabri |
| 2003-03-24 |
| Prisoners of war in Iraqi hands will be treated in accordance with "the teachings of Islam," Iraq's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri told the BBC today. Sabri, in Egypt to rally Arab governments against what he called US and British "colonialism, neo-colonialism and war," said Islamic principles took precedence over the Geneva Convention. "First of all, we are committed to the teachings of Islam. We are faithful Muslims. We take care of our prisoners of war in accordance with our teachings of Islam," he told BBC radio's The World At One programme. "We are the people who created law when the grandfathers of Blair and Bush were living like animals in the caves." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #10 You gotta know "islamic doublespeak" to know what they are saying, when they say that they will treat POW's properly, what they are REALLY saying is that our guys arent really POW's but illegal mercenaries. Some smartass reporter aught to ask that of the Iraqi regime " do you consider the captured americans to be POW's, or illegal combatants"? Then watch then squirm with the answer. |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2003-03-25 00:01:00 |
| #9 Last time I looked, they weren't shooting people in the head in Guantanamo. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-03-24 22:36:20 |
| #8 This is a bunch of smoke blowing. Muslim and Islamic people do not view us as being worthy of equal treatment...we are referred to as "animals in caves" by this Saddam-loving idiot. They are the animals...look what the bastards did to our soldiers! I don't trust them to be humane or follow the code of any religion. Clearly they are going to do what they do best...be brutal savages! |
| Posted by: USgirl 2003-03-24 22:14:15 |
| #7 What if Iraq treats them as "unlawful combattants"? After all the UN says that war violates international law. It's a bit funny that Rumsfeld, the master of Guantanamo camp, should ask Saddam, the bloody dictator, to respect the Geneva convention. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-03-24 22:01:21 |
| #6 "We take care of our prisoners of war in accordance with our teachings of Islam" It's true. That's why our soldiers were murdered for trying to remove oppression. |
| Posted by: g wiz 2003-03-24 20:55:18 |
| #5 Actually, most of western law is based on Roman law which predated Islam by a few centuries. |
| Posted by: Denny 2003-03-24 20:53:27 |
| #4 I guess when they tortured prisoners during and after the Gulf War that was in keeping with Sharia. |
| Posted by: mhw 2003-03-24 20:43:23 |
| #3 We are the people who, among others, inherited the laws handed down by God Himself at Sinai. From all the reading I've done (considerable) working toward a Master's Degree in Modern European History, I never read anything that has said that Islamic law predates Jewish Law. Jewish law is a major underlying fundament of the law of most modern nations of the world. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-03-24 20:38:53 |
| #2 "We are the people who created law when the grandfathers of Blair and Bush were living like animals in the caves." "In fact, we liked the caves so much we threw them out and took them for ourselves. And here we shall remain!" |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2003-03-24 20:19:42 |
| #1 Anybody still wondering why we're over there now? The more of these Religion of Peace lunatics we crush into dust, the better off the civilized world is. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-03-24 21:27:50 |