Koran Burning Investigation Clears U.S. Troops of Any Disrespect Toward Islam
- Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:42pm by
Mytheos Holt
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Barack Obama’s apology over a Koran burning at Bagram Air Field may have been completely wasted — a NATO/Afghan panel convened to look into the incident has just announced that while the disposal of the Koran was “improper,” it had nothing to do with anti-Muslim bigotry. The Washington Times elaborates:
“It did find that there were some U.S. personnel who did improperly treat these religious texts, including some of their supervisory personnel,” said Navy Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman. “And it recommended that they be reviewed for potential disciplinary action.”
The Korans ended up in an incinerator after Afghan prisoners were found using the holy books to pass messages to one another.
The books were confiscated and later ended up in an incinerator, where Afghan workers at the disposal site discovered the Korans burning and pulled them out of the incinerator.
In other words, the report confirms what has been known for weeks – the books weren’t burned out of spite against Islam. They were burned because potential terrorists were using them as a means to communicate without American knowledge. So with NATO and the Afghan Government accepting this interpretation, the question still lingers: why did the White House apologize for what was arguably an impolitic, but nevertheless necessary confiscation of tools for passing information?
Click here for the Blaze’s full coverage of the Koran burning controversy.
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Comments (86)
sdharms
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 6:29amSo, put the guys on the first airplane out of there and let them disappear into the homeland. I also think all of the Afghans shouls wake up one morning to FIND EVERY AMERICAN GONE, and everything we left behind on fire. It should be a surprise. We are only there now to let them have a target.
Report Post »wolverine
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 5:53amActually we are taking the money from the military so women can screw around a lot more
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 3:10amA koran investigation clears Islam of any respect for none muslims.
Report Post »LegionOfOne
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 3:19amWhat I wanna know is: what was Hajji doing going through the incinerator? They shouldn’t have been able to see anything.
Report Post »kspatriot
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 2:21amThe U.S. government condemns burning the Qur’an. Yet the U.S. government burns Bibles. I myself find the Qur’an makes excellent firewood. Especially when soaked in Bacon Grease.
Report Post »http://youtu.be/ErzxOz3Dzv8
Gonzo
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 8:50amI still want to know how everyone found out that a couple Korans were burned. Who is the blabber mouth?
Report Post »deano24
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 7:41pmCorrect way to dispose of the Koran
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0221/Quran-burning-What-is-the-respectful-way-to-dispose-of-Islam-s-holy-book
Report Post »VorDaj
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 2:09amBut the troops should disrespect Islam. In fact they should absolutely detest Islam. It is an abomination to all that is good and was responsible for 9/11 and the murders of millions over the centuries. If the troops respect Islam then they are either dhimmis, ignorant or no good rotten SOBs.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 8:44amWhen the US State Department is not run by, and our foreign policy is not decided by the House of Saud, then we will be able to despise Islam for the dung heap culture it truly is.
Sadly, we have a massive muslim army garrisoned on American soil right now. Waiting….
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 12:07amThey want to behead and kill…. how about the terrorists who actual desecrated those Korans… the soldiers were respectful enough to dispose of them in accordance with Islamic tradition…. far more respect then we’ve EVER seen any Muslim treat a Bible, or a Church, or a Nun or Priest for that matter…
We’re taught to turn the other check, they are talk to lop it off from the neck up….
Religion of Peace??? More like the religion of pieces (as in body parts.)
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:38pmIf we had a Commander in Chief that was loyal to our military he would demand an appology for the actions that followed this trumped up mess against our troops. If we had a Commander in Chief that knew what he was doing he would have never backed down in the first place. He seems to jump to conclusions before he has the facts. He and Hillary need to think before they spew their negative comments against our soldiers without all of the information at hand.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:57pm“They behaved stupidly”, Part 2. Just like he shot from the lip THAT time without any facts — assuming the police officers were naturally in the wrong, he jumps to conclusions THIS time, naturally assuming our troops were in the wrong and the “peace-loving” Islamic prisoners needed his groveling apology. What a sickening POS we have for a POTUS!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 12:02amJust get out of that God forsaken Hell Hole…. Let em kill each other ! Im so sick of hearing about these stupid assbackward muslims i could vomit… I will but a copy of the koran tomorrow for my bird cage , f%+* them …
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 12:03amI say we make a bonfire of Korans on the White house Lawn..Show Obama we support our people in our military..
Report Post »formidable_foe
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 12:25amWhat I can’t understand is how the media ever got a hold of this. What’s worse is that once they did, some America-hating bastard decided to run the story for the world to see. It almost seems set up to me. Why was this not confidential and/or classified information to begin with?
Report Post »Pigpen
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:36pmARTICLE REPORTS: “a NATO/Afghan panel convened to look into the incident has just announced that while the disposal of the Koran was “improper,” it had nothing to do with anti-Muslim bigotry.”
Um, so what if it HAD been the result of anti-Muslim bigotry? Why can those rich, hippy kids burn the American Flag and NOT get anything but praise for being so brave in exercising their rights, but the Koran burning is investigated?
HAVE YOU ALL LOST YOUR MINDS? Why aren’t you SCREAMING about this injustice against YOU? Do you know WHY all the nations in the West PANDER to the Muslims? Its because the Muslims have the COURAGE to say NO, YOU WON’T DISRESPECT US!
I am rapidly becoming ASHAMED to own you people as my countrymen!
I am so going to torch a Koran with that crazy Pastor in Florida.
Report Post »SpeckledPup
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:13pmthe only time obama feels close to his muslim brothers is when he is groveling on his forehead apologizing to them. he will use ANY excuse to apologize and grovel to them, he has to, he has how many safe houses bought and built among them with those Ttrillions he embezzled from US 100% AMERICAN taxpayers.
Report Post »BannedByHuffpo
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:01pmThe queeran’s so-so for TP if‘n you’re in a pinch, but it’s shore as hell a mite scratchier than a trusty corn cob, or a Sears catalog in th‘ outhouse when you’re doin’ your business.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:24pmShould try Koran cobs..
Report Post »dublinthewagons
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 3:48amThe literacy rate in Afghanistan is 43% amount men and 12.6% amount women. What good does the Koran do them if they can’t read it? Obama is a law professor and can’t quote the bible with a teleprompter. Volume #2 he mispoke when apologizing to a bunch of dumb goats.
Report Post »The Afghanistan people have a reason for being dumb. Mr. President you don’t you are in too big a hurry to admit the American people are no good, when you don’t know what you are talking about.
How many American lives did the apology cost? And do you care Mr. Prez?
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Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:51pmRon Paul forums is a better place for this spam advertisement.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:41pmThis is old news,
Report Post »what the frack?
BJC
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:21pmUnless we all plan to put on a veil and yell, Ali Akbar” then I don‘t imagine we’ll be getting an apology. Apologies are reserved for American hating tribes.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:29pmThat’s “allahu akbar” or Allah is greater (than the God of the Jews and Christians).
Report Post »SpeckledPup
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:14pmali ali akbar free! no more muslims live by me! hee hee hee!
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:12pmOh young Mr. Holt. This “fact ” was reported by all the major news agencies 3 weeks ago.
What were the messages? Were the messages translated? Were they nothing more than annotations about the meaning of certain scriptures? It would certainly seem prudent to find this out instead of burning the holy books.
And wasn’t the apology an attempt to lessen the belligerency against US service personnel (how can you tell a politician is lying? His lips are moving)? How many more deaths of coalition members will eventually be caused by the burning. Such a thoughtless act.
How are you going to win hearts and minds if you do not respect the people who those hearts and minds belong too?
So Young. So Reactionary. would be a good slogan to put on your business card.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:14pmBlame The Obama Administration , First. He is in charge , Right??
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:31pmI’m no interested in winning their hearts and minds. I’m having enough trouble training my rattle snake to sit up.
Report Post »BannedByHuffpo
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:02pmFuggum if they can’t take a joke
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:23pmReality check for Mary-lizard-breath:
Report Post »Marking/writing in a koran for any reason (except students writing their name inside the cover) is considered a desecration of the koran, yet mooslims in Pakistan routinely use old korans as toilet paper and they end up tossed into canals, but there is no outrage over that strangely enough. Bunch of blasted hypocrisy is all this is.
JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 7:42amGood one CHIPS. Funny as hell! True as hell too.
Report Post »neldahatcher
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 5:35pmyour comments are too stupid for comments from others
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:10pmHelloooo — that is what they said at the very start of this “story.”
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:08pmKoran Burning Obama Apologized For Done to Prevent Communication Between Terror Suspects.
What a delirious title.Come on Mytheos Holt,you can do better!The word For? Done?
Report Post »Dale
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:03pmAnother odumbo (BE) campaign highlight!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:10pmWhat else is new for the apologist president in thief.
Report Post »mymissusisanutter
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:54pmIf only Regan hadn’t started all of this mess. Still can’t believe that he compared the Taliban to our Founding Fathers.
Report Post »He gave them weapons and training to kick out the communist regime and look where it got us today!
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:01pmTsk, Tsk, Tsk… subscibing to the Liberal left’s talking points (to include the Ron Paul left) is a Bozo no no.
Report Post »mymissusisanutter
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:10pmWhat talking points? There’s photographic evidence. The Taliban were our allies in the 80′s when communism was the enemy. We wanted rid of communism so bad, we helped them because they wanted to get rid of communism too.
Report Post »http://www.legitgov.org/Reagan-calls-Taliban-moral-equivalent-Americas-founding-fathers
MrMagoo
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:11pmWho’s Regan?
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:12pmActually it was more like the ones who became the Northern Alliance. Those were our allies in deposing the Taliban, a home grown bunch of salafists. The mujaheddin were a motley crew fm all over the islamic world.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:12pmMaybe we should have let the Ruskie’s slaughter them, Did I get ya right?? The Fact is that they could have tried to become a productive country ,, but went the Sharia Law way.
Report Post »mymissusisanutter
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:17pmA brief video excerpt of Reagan meeting with the Taliban
http://youtu.be/sQKoyJ8KRh4
One of him dedicating a shuttle launch to them
http://youtu.be/uqZ-ToXjCz0
mymissusisanutter
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:21pmHow did the Taliban come to acquire US Stingers? Reagan gave them to the “freedom fighters”.
Truth is, the Taliban was meant to be a puppet governement, much the way Saddam Hussein was. Problem with puppet governments is that they never really obey.
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:28pmInstead of a ******* contest… I’ll just leave you with this. You can continue to spread the BS if you desire.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:29pmThey Always Blame Reagan… http://shar.es/p0V7d
Report Post »mymissusisanutter
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:41pmListen, if you can provide links to reputable sources, videos, etc that prove my point wrong, I’ll be more than happy to admit my blunder.
If you have no hard evidence, then you need to get over it, and realize that Ronald Reagan made a bad choice.
I laid my facts on the table, I’m more than happy to look at yours.
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:50pmYou can blame Reagan if you wish, I‘ll blame the Carter Administration and Mika’s Brzezinski’s old man.
Report Post »mymissusisanutter
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:58pmI’m here for enlightenment, but not to follow blindly. I believe that Reagan was a great president, but really screwed the pooch on this one. I came to my conclusion after researching, like Glenn says to do.
If you do have hard evidence that contradicts what I’ve researched, then believe me, I’ll drop that view point. I’m here to learn. Sometimes the truth isn’t always flattering.
70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:03pmRegardless of the past history of Regan us patriots are very concerned that you and your cohorts of ill informed liberal-progressive-commie-fascist get the heii out of the rest of our lives. If you want to live in one of the progressive corrupt cities be my guest. WE are NOT FORCING YOU!!! Stop forcing us. WE know through history that this socialist UTOPIA must be enforced through fascism using Communism. All this being perpetrated through the hatred of what the United States stands for. FREEDOM!!!!
Report Post »TEA PARTY UNTOUCHABLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mymissusisanutter
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:20pmUmmm….not entirely sure what the point of that rant was. I fought in Iraq. Did you?
I was willing to give my life for this country.
The name calling is low and makes you seem a bit uneducated. All I did was present facts with sources.
All I asked was that if I was wrong, some one please let me know by posting facts with links to sources as well.
A socialist or fascist would be unshakable in their beliefs, I’m not. I am open to other opinions.
Fascism – often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2
: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
Doesn’t sound like me. I am proud to have a voice and to be able to vote for anybody that I want. No man is infallible, only God is. So is Reagan a god? He messed up sometimes, we all do.
If you don’t have any facts to counter, than why waste your energy responding? It makes you look sad. Especially when you spout out typical far right hyperbole like that.
13th Imam
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:24pm20/20 hindsight is a great thing, hey Massanutthen
Report Post »70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:48pmI was in the USAF under Regan during the cold WAR. We held the (propaganda vs truth) line that enables us to fight today. We were the smartest most educated armed forces with no other group coming close. No Regan was not God. But his words and speeches will echo through time wherever FREEDOM exist. The point is my age group born 1965 were the abused children of the hippies era. We worked harder than ANY other generation having a huge number of latch-key children who were left in the world to bring themselves up. If you wanted something even clothes you worked for it and bought it yourself. I have not been out of work more than 3 months sense I had a paper route at age aprox 10? We knew and felt the policies of President Carter. The gas lines, riding your bike to the store to get milk seeing the prices go up. This was the life the children of the 70s lived. We saw the unions corrupt parents so that dads who were laid off REFUSED to get lesser paying jobs and it was us who saw the stay at home mothers go to work for the first time while fathers refused. Many of those union workers now own companies and pay their employees less than they made in the sixties and seventies. Thus the plight of printers row and the printing industry. Around 1970 it was still very much like it was 1950. Most families still had black/white tvs. We saw the technology age come in, calculators, pong, home computers. Point? My generation will give our lives for freedom cost what it cost.
Report Post »mymissusisanutter
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 12:14amI agree that Reagan was a great president and gave important speeches. I admire him very highly. My point was never to bash him, just point out his bad choice. I come from a working class family. My great grandfather fought in WW1 my grandfather, WW2, and my father in Vietnam. We hold very conservative beliefs, but never marched blindly. As a fellow soldier, you should know that you never go to battle without doing some home work, be it on the enemy or perhaps the terrain.
Everything I have in life I had to work for. Even at a young age(5), I was expected to do chores. My mother paid me for my work by letting me pick out a toy at the toy store once a week. Nothing grand, usually just a GI Joe or a Transformer.
I have worked tirelessly to provide for my family and will do so until the day I die. I don’t believe in retirement. If your heart still beats, you can do some form of work. I am instilling the same work ethic in my son now. There are far too many that have silver spoons in their mouths and feel way too entitled.
I am just seeking truth in this world, and again, it’s not always what we want to hear.
burnbabylon
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 1:33amCould you point out Mullah Omar in any of your “photographic evidence?”
Report Post »If you want to do some real research on the Taliban you would want to check the history of Afganistan as was written before 9-11-2001.
You will probably find that the Taliban didn’t get started until 1994 and they had a lot of help from Pakistan.
If you want to find someone calling the Taliban “Freedom Fighters” since 9-11-2001, look to the left, or their Jihadi pals.
Both groups dream of the freedom to tell everyone else what to think, say, and do.
RetUSAFVet
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:52pmAnd while I do not approve of the actions of the SSGT in shooting Afgan civilians, I am still waiting for an apology call from Karzai for the killings of American soldiers by Afgan military personnel. I don’t think we will get one, especially with the apologist-in-chief sitting in the White House.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:39pmIf the investigation reveals that the soldier had head injuries that contributed to the shooting, then Obama had better apologize to the soldier for not taking care of his medical needs. In fact, he owes ALL of the wounded soldiers an apology.
Report Post »SpeckledPup
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:17pmour concern is that the filthy animal obama will hand our brain-damaged soldier over to obama’s bloodthirsty muslims to appease them —again..
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 11:40pm@chips.
Report Post »I can just imagine the prez apologizing to all veterans…it would probably go something like “I am sorry for having to take funding for veterans health care, buuuuut the funds are being redirected to single mothers who need more food-stamps and cellphones….”
Itsjusttim
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:49pmWhat are they afraid of? Maybe they are afraid someone will come along saying let the earth shake.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:49pmJust goes to show you, never trust someone else to properly burn a Koran.
Report Post »nd4speed
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:06amLOL. No doubt.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:47pmThis News was known from the beginning. The Hubbub is a Muslim, Main Stream Media, Taliban collaboration to kill our troops. Barry is either a willing participant or a myopic oaf.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:47pmI am sorry that they think of the holy book is trash that they can write on.
Report Post »I am sorry that Obama is in office.
I am sorry that we are going to pay 5 to 6 bucks for a gallon of gas.
Is that sorry enough?
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:46pmShhhhhhhh. Look, butterflies. Rush called someone a slut. Fluke. Hey, Palin is stupid. Fire, Fire. I deserve another term. No Silver bullet for gas prices. Polly wanna *******.
Hey, Whitney Houston died. Maybe they will have to kill another popular celebrity to get everyones attention off this. Justin Beiber better get a food taster.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 10:07pmKracker???
Report Post »SpeckledPup
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 9:45pmtry telling the truth about the ”defacement” to those muslim animals, they only want to see obama groveling at their feet..again.
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