Pentagon Confirms Koran Desecrated, Denies Flushing

" The Pentagon admitted last night it had substantiated five occasions when US military personnel at Guantánamo Bay prison "mishandled" the Koran of Muslim detainees. But it said it found no credible evidence to confirm a complaint that the Islamic holy book had been flushed down a toilet.
Jay W Hood, the one-star general who commands the detention centre for suspected terrorists on Cuba, refused to give details of the cases of mishandling, saying the incidents, which occurred early in the camp's existence, were still under investigation. That they could be "broadly defined" as mishandling was as far as he would go.
But he told a press conference that a prisoner who reportedly complained to an FBI agent that a military guard had thrown a Koran into a toilet told Brig-Gen Hood's team that he had only been told of the incident, and had never witnessed any form of desecration at first hand. "

What angers me is not so much the act of desecration but the blindness of so many to say that "we would never do this, they would do it to our Bible though". The point is that we are as capable of violence and corruption and abuse as "Them". We are not saints, we are not without fault. To think otherwise blinds us to our own faults and failings. Before we accuse or condemn "them" let us stop a moment and look at our own actions, feelings and thoughts.