I like having James Yee be from my town. I like that he lives here. If you want a firshand account on the current U.S. government’s war on Islam, his book has some firsthand accounts…
Joseph Lelyveld reviews For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire
“Actually, it appears, all Captain Yee had to do to attract suspicion was to interced repeatedly at Camp Delta on behalf of the prisoners, as their chaplain, when he sa their guards being unnecessarily—and, he came to feel, deliberately—provocative: i handling Korans during cell searches, for instance, or taking detainees out of thei cells in shackles for interrogation just as the hour arrived for prayer. He had als begun to meet regularly with the forty or so Muslim servicemen on the base, for he was their chaplain, too. Since the mess halls didn’t provide halal food, some of the found it convenient to gather in the captain’s quarters for meals. Among thes American-born or naturalized Muslims were some who brought back stories o prisoner abuse from the interrogation rooms, where they were assigned as interpreter but which were off-limits to the chaplain, who soon began keeping a “personal journa of the atrocities that I was hearing about in the interrogation rooms and on the blocks. Some of this abuse the interpreters not unreasonably took to be abuse of Muslims a Muslims—for instance, wrapping prisoners in an Israeli flag, or playing a compac disc of verses from the Koran to set the scene for an interrogation session, only t drown it out with screeching rock music. The prisoners were also left chained in fetal position for hours.”
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