These ‘burned korans were desecrated by the moslums by writng in them. They were ‘disposed of i nislamic tradition.
The Naval Chaplaincy School and Center (NCSC), The U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School (USACHCS), and the U.S. Air Force Chaplain Service Institute (AFCSI) were united several years ago [1] in Fort Jackson, SC to form the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Center AFCC. Colonel Chet Lanious, USACHCS’ director of the Center for <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 />WorldReligionsChaplainCenter and School, composed an erudite and ecumenical document with the self-explanatory title [2], “Handling and Disposal of Sacred Texts, Spiritual Writings and Religious Items.” Specific, religiously sanctioned recommendations for the disposal of sacred texts by numerous faiths—Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodox Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam—were elaborated. Regarding the Koran, the ArmedForcesChaplaincyCenter document written by Lanious includes this comment sourced to the classical 18th century Hanafi manual of Islamic law [3]Radd al-Mukhtar ala ad-Dur al-Mukhtar, “The Answer to the Baffled” over “The Exquisite Pearl”:
It is also permitted to burn and then bury it in a place that is far removed from rubbish, trash, paths and walkways. (Doing this) will safeguard it from any type of degradation and debasement, as well as a protection for the Koran so that there does not occur any confusion, distortion or dispute due to the spreading and circulation of copies of the Koran that have printing and/or publishing errors.
Moreover, just this past September 16, 2011, during a PBS interview [4], Imam Jihad Turk, Director of Religious Affairs, at the Islamic Center of Southern California, provided these pellucid, and succinct directives.
When Muslims want to respectfully dispose of a text of the Koran that is no longer usable, we will burn it. So if someone, for example, in their own private collection or library had a text of the Koran that was damaged or that was in disrepair, so the binding was ruined, etc., or it got torn, they might bring it by to the Islamic Center and ask that someone here dispose of it properly if they were unsure how to do that. And what I’ll do is I’ll take it to my fireplace at home and burn it there in the fireplace. So I sort of take the pages out and then burn it to make sure that it gets thoroughly charred and is no longer recognizable as script.
No Apologies Owed to the Afghans
Here we go again, showing the world we are the bad guys. Enough already with the apologies. Despite all the rhetoric to the contrary, there truly was legitimacy to entering Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11 because that is where our enemy was based and harbored. Since, there has been endless second-guessing about our long-endured role there. But the bottom line is this:
We suffered the single worst attack on American soil in this nation’s history on 9/11.
We retaliated against al Qaeda and their allies, including the Taliban.
Since, we have helped to create infrastructure for the Afghan people, with water systems, roads, medical facilities and training of their police and military.
We have, to some degree, helped to liberate the women of Afghanistan so they can live and breathe without wearing full burkas, they can attend schools and they can hold jobs. Their country is better off because of us. In doing all this, the United States sacrificed greatly.
* It has cost the American taxpayer over $500 billion
* American combat deaths have totaled 1904, and counting, plus another one thousand killed among coalition forces.
* Another 14,342 Americans came home wounded, some with broken minds and bodies that may never be repaired.
So, now, a few copies of already marred copies of the Quran recovered from prison facilities were inadvertently burned in the disposal process. The pages of these books were scribbled with notes from inmate to inmate, which — after some were discovered — native Afghans went about stirring up protests and riots among their own, leaving at least seven innocent Afghans killed in the process.
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