Koran being flushed story was fake.

[ajbera]

Just my 2 cents:

Although the Guantanamo & Abu Ghraib situations certainly didn't help, does anyone doubt the Muslim response to the Quran desecration allegations would have been as intense without those events? Given the "death sentence" (can't recall the proper term) imposed on Rushdie for merely portraying Muhammed in a non-doctrinal light, I think you'd see rioting even without the antecedent atrocities.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Paper not designed to dissolve would have to be shredded into small pieces to avoid cloging a a typical seaer service line. Even then it would pose a problem for a septic tank system, but would not foul up a large sewer plant.

[SpencerH]

Are you in the biz then lefty, or just a knowledgeable amateur book flusher ?

[techumseh]

Originally posted by DaShi


Keep it in your pants, big boy.

This post has the advantage of being rude, without being in the least bit articulate.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Yep.

I was thinking maybe it may be possible that they retracted it to try and contain the damage.

Except NEws week really doesn't care about "containing damage" or any other political effects. Instead they want to sell as many papers as possible and being forced to retract such a big story damaged their creditability so they wouldn't have done it unless they had a very good reason.

[DinoDoc]

I think Fox enjoys these stories. The people they have covering this story seem to have a smile on thier face.

[dannubis]

it's funny to see how the same people who now raise hell over this are the same ones who said that it was ok to go to iraq based on faulty evidence...

that puts a smile on my face...

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by SpencerH
Are you in the biz then lefty, or just a knowledgeable amateur book flusher

I am a property mananger, with several very stupid/commie tenants.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by dannubis
it's funny to see how the same people who now raise hell over this are the same ones who said that it was ok to go to iraq based on faulty evidence...

that puts a smile on my face...

Right...

When did I do that?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Oerdin
When did I do that?

FOXnews, dude.

[Dinner]

As predicted muslim groups don't believe the retraction. Once these stories are out there and they're part of the folklore then facts and evidence just don't matter.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/16/newsweek.quran.intl/index.html

[Imran Siddiqui]

Ted Striker

He's totally right that Abu Ghraib did have an effect. Newsweek didn't have total verification, but said, well there have been numerous reports of bad things we've done in Iraq and Guantanamo, so they were more likely to believe this report. I fail to see how they have no relevance here.

[dannubis]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Right...

When did I do that?

not you...

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I fail to see how they have no relevance here.

So it was Abu Ghraib that forced Newsweek to jetison even the pretense of journalism in a grab for sales?

[Ecthy]

Now I've pu all the pieces together. A man with a Koran got flushed, then appeared at the coast of England.