SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: ABUSE OF THE KORAN

UNCLAS ABU DHABI 002574

SIPDIS

STATE FOR NEA/ARP; NEA/PPD; NEA/RA; INR/R/MR; PA;
INR/NESA; INR/B; IIP/G/NEA-SA
WHITE HOUSE FOR PRESS OFFICE; NSC
SECDEF FOR OASD/PA
USCINCCENT FOR POLAD
LONDON FOR GOLDRICH; PARIS FOR ZEYA
LONDON ALSO FOR MOC

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OIIP KMDR TC
SUBJECT: SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: ABUSE OF THE KORAN



1. SUMMARY: A COLUMNIST IN THE ARABIC DAILY "AL-BAYAN" WARNED
ALL MUSLIMS AGAINST AN ALLEGED AMERICAN-ISRAELI PLAN TO DESTROY
AL-AQSA MOSQUE. THE COLUMNIST CLAIMS THAT THE KORAN ABUSE IN
GUANTANAMO IS A CONSPIRACY AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS A WAR CRIME.
THE COLUMN URGES MUSLIMS TO NOT BE TOLERANT REGARDING THESE ACTS.
END SUMMARY


2. COMMENTING ON THE DESECRATION OF THE KOEAN IN GUANTANAMO BAY,
AHMAD KANANI WROTE IN THE DUBAI-BASED ARABIC DAILY "AL-BAYAN"
6/7:(CIRCULATION 90,000)

".THE AMERICANS REALIZED THAT THEIR DENIAL OF THIS ACCUSATION IS
NOT CONVINCING ANYONE AND WILL NOT IMPROVE THEIR POSITION IN THE
MUSLIM WORLD. THEIR PRESSURE ON NEWSWEEK TO DENY THE INFORMATION
MADE THE UNITED STATES LOOK SILLY AND CONFUSED. THEREFORE, THEY
USED A MALICIOUS TACTIC BY DISPENSING THE INFORMATION GRADUALLY
TO PREPARE THE MUSLIMSTO ACCEPT SUCH A CRIME..SUCH A CRIME SHOULD
BE JUDGED BY THE MUSLIMS. THE GUILTY SHOULD BE PUT ON TRIAL, AND
BEFORE A COURT FOR WAR CRIMINALES FOR COMMITTING CRIMES AGAINST
HUMANITY. WHAT IS ALSO REQUIRED, IS TO CONVINCE THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT AND DEPARTMENTS TO ESTABLISH A MECHANISM THAT ENSURES
SUCH AN ACT WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN IN THE FUTURE WITH THE KORAN OR
ANY MUSLIM HOLY SITE INCLUDING THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE. THE U.S.
SHOULD ALSO CLOSE GUANTANAMO BAY AND RELEASE ALL OF THE
DETAINEES, OR TRY THEM BEFORE A FAIR COURT SHOULD THEY BE
GUILTY(THIS HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN AND MAY NEVER.) WHAT IS ALSO
REQUIRED IS THAT THE MUSLIM REACTION MUST BE LOUD AFTER THE
OFFICIAL AMERICAN ADMITTANCE......ONCE A CATASTROPHE TAKES PLACE
AND THE AL-AQSA IS DEMOLISHED, IT WILL BE EXPLAINED AS IF IT WAS
AN INDIVIDUAL ACT AND NOT A DELIBERATE ONE."

"THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW AGAINST AL-AQSA MOSQUE. EVERY
WEEK NEWS REPORTS REACH US ABOUT AN EXTREMIST JEWISH GROUP THAT
SEEKS TO ATTACK THE MOSQUE AND DESTORY IT. MUSLIMS MAY BE SO
ACCUSTOMED TO HEARING THESE REPORTS, UNTIL ONE DAY WHEN WE ALL
WAKE UP AND WITNESS A CATASTROPHE; THIS IS THE CORE OF THE
AMERICAN-ISRAELI SCHEME AGAINST THE MOSQUE. ANY TOLERANCE
TOWARDS THE ISSUE OF KORAN ABUSE SIMPLY MEANS THAT YOU ARE
ALLOWING ZIONISTS AND AMERICAN NEOCONSERVATIVES THE CHANCE, AND
THE GREEN LIGHT TO UNDERMINE THE AL-AQSA MOSUE. IS THIS ENOUGH
TO ALERT ALL OF US?"

SISON