Monday, May 22, 2006

A Chaplain's Test of Faith

A Chaplain's Test of Faith:

"Yee says he soon came to believe that Islam was used as a weapon against the detainees who practiced it. Guards, he writes, would frequently gather around the cell blocks and mock the prisoners during daily worship. Korans were often ripped and the bindings broken during cell searches.

As detainees confided in him, he heard more stories of insults to his religion taking place in the interrogation rooms. One detainee complained that some of the prisoners were forced to sit in the center of a Satanic circle drawn on the floor, outlined by lit candles. They were ordered to bow down as interrogators shouted, 'Satan is your God, not Allah! Repeat after me!'

Yee said he initially found the complaints hard to believe. 'But many detainees corroborated these stories, and translators' with the intelligence section 'often confirmed them.'"

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