Post by They urinated over it on May 21, 2005 7:27:15 GMT -5
"They urinated over it (the Qur'an), they ripped it; they cut it with scissors in front of us. They defecated on it and painted our faces with it. Yes, all this should be said so that the Muslim world understands the degree of hate this sacred Book inspires in them."
(Mohammed Mazouz, Moroccan releasee, speaking about the US mistreatment of the Qur'an in Guantanamo)
Cageprisoners Releases Report on US Systematic Desecration of Qur'an
This week, in response to the Pentagon's denials that the Qur'an was mistreated in Guantanamo and in light of Newsweek's retraction of their earlier story, Cageprisoners published a compendium of statements from former detainees of Guantanamo Bay regarding the United States Government's systematic, institutionalised and intentful desecration of the Qur'an and other religious abuses and manipulations to degrade and humiliate the detainees.
The report, which is a damningly detailed cross-corroborated litany of abuses of the Qur'an by US forces, demolishes the farcical denial by the United States that the desecration of the Qur'an by the US military and their associated agencies was neither an intentful nor systematic method devised by the US command chain to purposefully torment the detainees.
Included is exclusive new material from former British detainees Moazzam Begg, Jamal al-Harith, Tarek Dergoul, and the Tipton three on the abuses they witnessed first hand and those reported to them second hand. The report also contains Feroz Abbasi's first public statement on the abuses he suffered and witnessed under his detention and refers exclusively to the religious abuses meted out by the US authorities.
(Mohammed Mazouz, Moroccan releasee, speaking about the US mistreatment of the Qur'an in Guantanamo)
Cageprisoners Releases Report on US Systematic Desecration of Qur'an
This week, in response to the Pentagon's denials that the Qur'an was mistreated in Guantanamo and in light of Newsweek's retraction of their earlier story, Cageprisoners published a compendium of statements from former detainees of Guantanamo Bay regarding the United States Government's systematic, institutionalised and intentful desecration of the Qur'an and other religious abuses and manipulations to degrade and humiliate the detainees.
The report, which is a damningly detailed cross-corroborated litany of abuses of the Qur'an by US forces, demolishes the farcical denial by the United States that the desecration of the Qur'an by the US military and their associated agencies was neither an intentful nor systematic method devised by the US command chain to purposefully torment the detainees.
Included is exclusive new material from former British detainees Moazzam Begg, Jamal al-Harith, Tarek Dergoul, and the Tipton three on the abuses they witnessed first hand and those reported to them second hand. The report also contains Feroz Abbasi's first public statement on the abuses he suffered and witnessed under his detention and refers exclusively to the religious abuses meted out by the US authorities.