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June 11, 2005
More on the Koran
I met Roger Kimball recently and he didn't strike me as someone who'd care much for blogging, so I was pleasantly surprised to find out he does (or purports to), contributing to the New Criterion's blog, Armavirumque. Today, adding to Diana West's column yesterday on Gitmo Kimball offers, "It's always worse than you think, Koran-Handling Dept.":
By all means, let us treat prisoners with the dignity and respect they lack in their own lives. Let us not besmirch or ridicule the Koran. But let us also preserve some rudimentary contact with reality. These people are terrorists and suspected terrorists. Many--probably most--of them have dedicated their lives to slaughtering innocent Westerners, inspired, note well, by the very document our soldiers are enjoined to handle as a "fragile piece of delicate art" (as distinct, one supposes from a "sturdy piece of delicate art"). Operating in the realm of fiction, Evelyn Waugh might have made an amusing episode out of this absurdity (talk about "Black Mischief"!) Perambulating in the precincts of real life, however, we should have the fortitude to acknowledge that the comedy has gone rancid. Those sections of the army's "Detention Operations Group Standard Operating Procedures" that bear on the Koran should be respectfully excised, using only the right hand. They should then be carefully conveyed in a "clean, dry detainee towel" to the nearest outhouse and . . . flushed down the toilet.
Posted by bill at June 11, 2005 11:40 AM
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