Thomas, Evan,
How a Fire Broke Out. Evan Thomas. - Newsweek, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 52, Global Issues, 1522-3221; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: How a Fire Broke Out, May 23, 2005; pp. 32-34.
"By the end of the week, the rioting had spread from Afghanistan throughout much of the Muslim world, from Gaza to Indonesia. Mobs shouting 'Protect our Holy Book!' burned down government buildings and ransacked the offices of relief organizations in several Afghan provinces. The violence cost at least 15 lives, injured scores of people and sent a shudder through Washington, where officials worried about the stability of moderate regimes in the region. The spark was apparently lit at a press conference held on Friday, May 6 [2005], by Imran Khan, a Pakistani cricket legend and strident critic of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. Brandishing a copy of that week's NEWSWEEK (dated May 9), Khan read a report that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo prison had placed the Qur'an on toilet seats and even flushed one." (NEWSWEEK) This article presents "the story of a sensitive NEWSWEEK report about alleged abuses at Guantanamo Bay and a surge of deadly unrest in the Islamic world."
1522-3221;
Koran
Newsweek (Periodical)
Muslims--Attitudes
Prisoners--Treatment
Prisoners of war
Riots
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba)
AC1.S5
050
How a Fire Broke Out. Evan Thomas. - Newsweek, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 52, Global Issues, 1522-3221; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: How a Fire Broke Out, May 23, 2005; pp. 32-34.
"By the end of the week, the rioting had spread from Afghanistan throughout much of the Muslim world, from Gaza to Indonesia. Mobs shouting 'Protect our Holy Book!' burned down government buildings and ransacked the offices of relief organizations in several Afghan provinces. The violence cost at least 15 lives, injured scores of people and sent a shudder through Washington, where officials worried about the stability of moderate regimes in the region. The spark was apparently lit at a press conference held on Friday, May 6 [2005], by Imran Khan, a Pakistani cricket legend and strident critic of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. Brandishing a copy of that week's NEWSWEEK (dated May 9), Khan read a report that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo prison had placed the Qur'an on toilet seats and even flushed one." (NEWSWEEK) This article presents "the story of a sensitive NEWSWEEK report about alleged abuses at Guantanamo Bay and a surge of deadly unrest in the Islamic world."
1522-3221;
Koran
Newsweek (Periodical)
Muslims--Attitudes
Prisoners--Treatment
Prisoners of war
Riots
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba)
AC1.S5
050