Random Dribblin's

Just catching up on the news on the Net.

This whole Quran (or Koran) scandal... c'mon now - you KNOW the Gitmo guards were doing all kinds of abuses. It's like watching children getting busted for shoplifting, then trying to come up with some excuse that, while admitting the shoplifting occured, it occured for some legitimate "act-of-God" reason.

The best of the stories was one detainee who, along with his Quran, were splashed with urine through a vent. How? Well, the guard had to go wee-wee outside and somehow (SOMEHOW!) the wind caught his urine and splashed it through the vent. I wanna see a scientific recreation of this!!

You may not like what the detainees did. You may not believe in their philosophies. But there should be some basic rules of treating another human being, REGARDLESS of what they did. One of those rules is you don't damage a source of someone else's faith. Did anyone ask the guards that may have tossed a Quran on a pile of wet laundry what they would have thought had they been detained and had one of their guards toss a Bible on a pile of wet laundry??

This kind of treatment will not go very far in ending Terrorism. It only enforces the terrorists' beliefs that we're some kind of Godless devil whose only goal is to destroy Islam. When it boils down it, we're all just human beings on the same planet. Each of us should take the initiative, even if it goes against the current societal norm, to treat everybody with respect and know that within each person, the potential for extreme good exists. THEN, and only then, will we finally start making a dent in terrorism.

There was a cool article in Wired (via Boing Boing) noting that the people caught in the Twin Towers who DIDN'T listen to the authorities (who advised them to stay put and wait for help) were the ones who had a better chance of surivial! Link.