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Handling the Koran at Gitmo

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Well what do you know?

More than two years ago, the Pentagon issued detailed rules for handling the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, requiring U.S. personnel to ensure that the holy book is not placed in "offensive areas such as the floor, near the toilet or sink, near the feet, or dirty/wet areas."

The three-page memorandum, dated Jan. 19, 2003, says that only Muslim chaplains and Muslim interpreters can handle the holy book, and only after putting on clean gloves in full view of detainees.

The detailed rules require U.S. Muslim personnel to use both hands when touching the Koran to signal "respect and reverence," and specify that the right hand be the primary one used to manipulate any part of the book "due to cultural associations with the left hand." The Koran should be treated like a "fragile piece of delicate art," it says.

So much of what we think - what we feel - about this war depends on what we are allowed to know about it. And what we are allowed to know about it comes to us through a filter. A filter of bias.

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Journalists are fond of saying their duty is not to their country, but to the Truth: some abstract notion of a higher calling. But when the stakes were high, we have clearly seen this is not the case. RatherGate, al QaQaa, the mysterious reluctance of the press to submit the allegations of SwiftVets to critical scrutiny cause us to wonder where this marvelous objectivity is to be found?

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