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| Olde Tyme Religion |
| Hitchens on Gitmo: "It's a state-sponsored madrasah." |
| 2009-06-09 |
| (Obama's) naiveté is worrying, and it means that among the global Muslim audience, the wrong sort of people were laughing at us, while the ones who ought to be our friends and allies were shedding a disappointed tear. |
| Posted by:Elmath Ebbaling5327 |
| #8 Gitmo a madrasah? Absolutely. That so many ex-detainees remain violent should come as little surprise, considering Gitmo is now more madrassa than prison camp. Detainees are fed a diet of violent anti-Western agitprop by sympathetic Muslim chaplains and librarians who have unfettered access to their cell blocks. The chief librarian at Gitmo, Mohammed Abdelaal, is an Egyptian-born civilian contractor who speaks Arabic. He has developed an affectionate rapport with the prisoners, who have nicknamed him "Abu Saleh," or Father of Righteousness. Abdelaal distributes Islamic texts -- some of which contain violent passages that only nourish jihadi bloodlust -- from a library stocked with some 10,000 pieces of Islamic literature and videos. Command has entrusted him with exclusive control over such materials. In fact, nobody else can so much as touch the Islamic holy texts, which he wraps in white linen -- not even Gitmo's commander. Why help the Islamic terrorists stay radicalized? The Federal Bureau of Prisons recently realized that Islamic materials were helping radicalize its Muslim inmate population. So it purged its libraries of such books. It also no longer lets Muslim chaplains in the pen unescorted. Guards now accompany them to prison chapels to make sure they preach in English. At Gitmo, chaplains have on-demand access to detainees and minister to them in Arabic; library materials aren't screened for violent or anti-Western content. Is it any wonder so many detainees have rejoined the jihad? |
| Posted by: ed 2009-06-09 15:04 |
| #7 Gitmo a madrasah? Maybe. The Sauds et al seem to want those scumbags back home for some reason. Meanwhile, Israel has a month to explain their position of the Judea/Samaria (west bank) settlements to the Enlightened-One. How do you say 'blow it out your ear' in Hebrew? |
| Posted by: Bertie Uneamble8178 2009-06-09 14:28 |
| #6 If they're POW's then they have the rights to red cross visits, correspondence, etc... and the matter that for many of them the countries they are from are not at war with us. There's also the matter of when do they get released. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-06-09 13:22 |
| #5 I still think we could have made them POWs and held them until the end of hostilities without any worries of trials and other nonsense. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2009-06-09 11:39 |
| #4 Dubya gravely miscalculated when he brought the first groups of terrorists to GTMO. He should have (and could have, at first) said "Islam is a religion of peace and you gents failed your faith, hijacked its values, and therefore you will not receive Korans/imams/mecca arrows/etc." He could have quietly provided the halal meals though. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2009-06-09 11:32 |
| #3 It's busted html. Everybody's name shows up at &owner=YourName |
| Posted by: ed 2009-06-09 11:07 |
| #2 What's my name doing in the link????? |
| Posted by: Ptah 2009-06-09 10:53 |
| #1 American prisons in general are schools for violent, extremist ideological groups, known as "gangs". Why we tolerate that stuff is beyond me. |
| Posted by: Anyone But Obama 2009-06-09 08:41 |