flushing the Quran

From the Associated Press:

Anti-American sentiment is running high in the Mideast because of a variety of factors, including a now-retracted report in Newsweek that Pentagon investigators had found evidence interrogators at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, placed copies of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, in washrooms to unsettle suspects and flushed a Quran down a toilet.

``We in principle don't reject anyone's visit to the Al Aqsa Mosque (compound), but we see in the visit of Mrs. Bush an attempt to whitewash the face of the United States, after the crimes that the American interrogators had committed when they desecrated the Quran,'' the militant Islamic Hamas group said in a statement on its Web site.

I have to admit that I can't understand why this story is significant. Sure, on the one hand, it seems remarkable to me that interrogators could be so stupid, after all that has transpired with allegations of American mistreatment of militant Arabs; and if Newsweek reported this story errantly, then shame on them; and if they didn't then shame on them doubly for bowing to political pressures to recant; and so on, and so on... between the American media and the Bush White House, is there any way of ever knowing the truth about these things?

But, then, on the other hand: why don't these Muslims grow up? Is their religion so shaky that they have to throw a tantrum anytime anyone in the entire world ever says or does anything remotely critical of or demeaning to it? I'd like to know the statistics on the number of Christian scriptures and churches being desecrated every year. I'm certain the number is quite high. What's more, I'd like to know how many times these acts are perpetrated by the very people raising this fuss!

Of course the desecration of Christianity is not newsworthy because of the political and spiritual bias that determines newsworthiness. But I'm not concerned about getting press, and for one simple reason: our God is the true and living God, and Jesus Christ is his beloved Son. His is the only name in heaven and on earth by which all mankind must be saved. And all others - Mohammed included - are usurpers and liars.

Go ahead and burn our Bibles; destroy our temples - for we know they shall be raised again imperishable. And then Christ will be revealed in us, and all that was of the world will be exposed as fraud and rebellion, and finally judged by him who owns the keys to heaven and hell.