Re: American military should be given the same lattitude as smugglers and terrorists
You’re seriously getting your knickers in a twist on this one.
So just to be clear, you contend that to yourself and other offended parties, it’s not at all that it is American military who alledgedly defiled the religion.
It’s that you and others still hold the U.S. military in such high regard, that they let you down, thus making the violation of the Koran so much more objectionable?
It is a non issue demonstrating no moral equivalence if Muslim terrorists or smugglers engage in such a religious atrocity, but we just can’t abide it from a group so highly regarded among Muslims-like the U.S. military. Please.
All insults to someones sincere belief are at least rude and at most criminal. That’s much has been admitted. No one defends the mistreatment of Islam’s Holy Book if it happened by U.S. military interrogators.
The riot was primarily a socio-political expression of anti-Americanism-for many reasons(frustration, legitimate grievance, and prevailing mindset)-under the guise of religious indignation.
You’ve just tried to change the discussion. Your initial feeling was that all should “understand the rioters”. Many of us did not understand or suspect that the motivation to riot and call for holy war was purely rooted in religious offense.
So others bring up other similar religious offenses that did not seeming stir up such hatred and emotion. You then derail it into a discussion of expectations of conduct for the U.S. military.
We won’t disagree on the standard of conduct for the military. If a soldier gives a prisoner the Koran, I’d say that’s respectful conduct. If he or another soldier flushes it down a toilet, then that soldier is an asshole deserving of punishment. No argument.