I think your first quoted, Lawrence Auster's idea should be done.  I think yours is as ironic as hell, but cnat be and never will be done.

But it is fun to dream like that!

don't forget to tell them if they are true Muslim's that they should have memorized the book. That would be the second reason.

And I do think they would get away with it, although I am not sure why go through all the bad PR.

The problem with your argument is that you are eager to assume that all those arrested, be they muslim or not, are guilty. While if i remember correctly the law presumes innocence until proven otherwise. Of course the law stops at the gates of guantanmo. It is a well know fact that many of those incarcerated in guantanmo and elsewhere are not guilty but are kept for different utilitarian purposes and are also just there because their "case" has not been processed timely. so, take away the korans from a group of people who are muslims, most of which were picked up off the street, have nothing to do with terrorism....problem exasperated. give it another try my friend.

While if i remember correctly the law presumes innocence until proven otherwise.

Show us their citizenship card.

Oops!

They dont have one!

Try the facts before you go off half cocked.

Dude,

you seem to believe that the law you quote refers to terrorists captured in a war. It does not. You don't remember correctly.

The presumption of innocence is a feature of most legal systems because a case has been made that society at large benefits from each individual having such a right, even if it is clear that they are guilty. But I am not aware of any such case being made for a similar right for the terrorists captured in Afghanistan. Can you make that case?

The Geneva Convention covers what the laws of a country's legal system do not cover. But it applies only to parties that have signed and only with regard to another party of the convention. But the Taliban and Al-Qaeda have announced that they are not bound by the Geneva Convention (it is apparently against Islam) and have certainly not followed it. Those captured in the war in Afghanistan are thus NOT covered by any such principle as you seem to remember exists.

So in short: you do not remember correctly.

So in short: you do not remember correctly.

Ouch!  you do put it well,

So in short: you do not remember correctly.

Ouch!  you do put it well,

Andrew, you do indeed put it well, though I think so did Dude.

May I ask, would you equally deny prisoner's rights to the Bible, considering it is supposedly a religion of peace, in spite of all the violence committed in its name.

However, your unsubstantiated assertion that the Muslim community does not speak out against terrorism simply revels your ignorance. Perhaps you need to move outside the mainstream media and JU for your sources.

But other than that flaw in your argument, you make a compelling point. Except one other thing that just occurred to my mind is that you haven't actually substantiated Lawrence Auster's point either. You just take it as fact because he said it. This is the sort of unsubstantiated argument the Left is constantly accused of, yet when the Right does it they get featured. Go figure. Nonetheless, some good points, you just need to work a bit harder to justify your position mate.

Andrew, you do indeed put it well, though I think so did Dude.

May I ask, would you equally deny prisoner's rights to the Bible, considering it is supposedly a religion of peace, in spite of all the violence committed in its name.

However, your unsubstantiated assertion that the Muslim community does not speak out against terrorism simply revelas your ignorance. Perhaps you need to move outside the mainstream media and JU for your sources.

But other than that flaw in your argument, you make a compelling point. Except one other thing that just occurred to my mind is that you haven't actually substantiated Lawrence Auster's point either. You just take it as fact because he said it. This is the sort of unsubstantiated argument the Left is constantly accused of, yet when the Right does it they get featured. Go figure. Nonetheless, some good points, you just need to work a bit harder to justify your position mate.

I am a white English Christian Male. I think that along with GW Bush and T Blaire, your comment rank as some of the most distasteful I have ever seen written.
I admit, I do not know a lot about Muslims, however I do know that, although I am not a very devout Christian, I would expect to be able to have a book of my own choice to read, if incarcerated a long way from home, by a country I despised, for a crime that I probably didn't commit. If that book happened to be the bible, I would be angry if it was pissed on or violated in any other way.
America wake up you can not change peoples belief by supression... Oh sorry that was what Iraq was doing, not the Good Old US of A, friendly Uncle Sam with his puppets - you are all asses

"May I ask, would you equally deny prisoner's rights to the Bible, considering it is supposedly a religion of peace, in spite of all the violence committed in its name."

Yes. If some terrorist group claimed to be Christian but isn't, I would also withhold the Bible from them in prison, under the same circumstances (i.e. violence in Christian countries because of alleged mistreatment of a BOOK.

"However, your unsubstantiated assertion that the Muslim community does not speak out against terrorism simply revels your ignorance. Perhaps you need to move outside the mainstream media and JU for your sources."

Ok, where are the mass demonstrations against Palestinian attacks on kindergardens?

Good idea, piss off those stupid terrorists. Don't care about what the Muslim world will think about it. So they have a few hundred extra suicide volunteers? Good riddance. So those volunteers will take some more American soldiers with them? Shit happens. Besides, those soldiers died for the good cause. Didn't they?

"I am a white English Christian Male."

Why would you think that the colour of your skin is important?

"I think that along with GW Bush and T Blaire, your comment rank as some of the most distasteful I have ever seen written."

Ok, I withdraw my comment: the terrorists ARE Muslims, the Muslim scholars and Arab heads of state who repeatedly tell us that terrorism is NOT what the Koran is about are wrong, attacking civilians IS a way to prove one's worth to G-d, and The Koran is a book that dictates evil deeds and absolutely appropriate reading material for the terrorists.

Is that better?

"Don't care about what the Muslim world will think about it."

Why should we? And furthermore, why would the Muslim world be angry? Isn't it them who keep telling us that Islam is a religion of peace and that the terrorists are not Muslims?

Gitmo, of course, is not on American soil

only when one observes the world thru the looking glass described by lewis caroll. if it's not american soil, why hasn't castro stopped by to check things out as any other landlord might do?