An article in the LA Times is enough to get me fuming mad, I cannot imagine the effect on the service men and women who are the primary target of the text. Some excepts from the article:
With the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, authorities at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp have stepped up efforts to teach guards about the religious observance, amid signs that radical strains of Islam are becoming a potent organizing tool at the facility.
A court challenge filed late last week in U.S. District Court in Washington accused the U.S. of illegally denying detainees access to Muslim chaplains, who some religious leaders argue could help calm tensions inside the barbed wire. The motion was supported by one of the largest Muslim advocacy organizations in the country.
So what the LA Times is saying is we need the guards who guard known terrorists to be more sensitive and considerate. Afterall, it is not like these are people who are sworn to destroy our way of life.
In the court challenge filed Friday in Washington on behalf of a Pakistani detainee, attorney Gaillard T. Hunt said Muslim chaplains would help reduce suicide attempts among detainees, a problem that has fueled calls in the U.S. and abroad to close the camp.
An official with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, as well as two Muslim chaplains who work in the federal prison system, filed declarations in support of the motion. They, along with a third chaplain, said they were willing to counsel prisoners at Guantanamo.
That these organizations are embroiling our courts into defending the enemy is ludicrous. These are prisoners of war who, had they any desire to peacefully practice there religion, would not be in prison in the first place.
Moreover we already saw that Muslim Chaplains working in that environment are very likely to be working with detainees.
We need to spend less time concerned about the welfare and comfort of our enemies and realize that they are terrorists and should be treated as such. Even that is more than we would get where the tables turned.
