oh sure. I don't advocate violence as a response to blasphemy, and think it's a rather...hateful I guess is the word...concept to begin with.
I also suspect that you are right about the actual soldiers that did the deed. They did not do it out of malice, most likely. And let's give credit to the people who did not hang them out to dry. But still. Let's go up the food chain a little. You'd think that having once had an uproar about the way that prisoners' Korans had been handled, somebody would have said hmm, soldiers charged with Islamic prisoners should at least know that there is something that they don't know on the subject, and maybe have standing instructions about asking for specialists when they need to do something with or to written materials that could be religious... I know that large organizations are stupid, but hey. The military has a lot of procedures relating to matters that do *not* spark riots after all... just saying On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > > There are procedures for proper handling and destruction of Korans. > > Not that such handling isn't open for abuse either as an individual > soldier's expression of frustration or anger, or as a purposeful psy-ops > tactic. > > But, according to the information released so far, the lucky guys that had > the "stand outside and burn stuff in the freezing cold" duty did not read > nor understand Arabic, and did not realize some of the material were > Korans. > > Most of the material was NOT Korans (although much was religious and > political writing). > > I lean towards "never attribute to blasphemy what can be explained by a > couple of bored young soldiers with lighter fluid, a long stick, a match > and way too much time." > > I also approve of Obama apologizing for the burning. As the Commander in > Chief, it is his job to say "Yep. That shouldn't have happened. Our bad". > > Not because anyone requires the apology. But because it is the right thing > to do to admit a mistake and apologize, for our own sake. Or so my mother > taught me. > > That has nothing to do with the reaction by the overreligious nutballs. Who > are ridiculous, and a caricature of themselves. > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > hadn't seen that. It does make you wonder why that would not also be > > blasphemous. Don't know. Possibly this bit is not being communicated, but > > of course, nothing says the uproar has to be rational. > > > > I still say that the US military is supposed to know by now that there > is a > > protocol for handling a Koran though. > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347394 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
