No proof for Koran abuse accusations on Israeli guards

Palestinian accusations that Israeli guards from Meggido prison had torn pages of the Koran are now object to an official investigation.

According to Reuters agency, almost 900 prisoners had refused food and had a day-long fast as a protest against this terrible act qualified as "an insult to all Muslims" as said by the representatives of the Palestinian ruling Fatah party.

Israeli prison officials state that there is no evidence for the accusation, so this must have been a provocation from the Palestinian militant groups, while Israeli Arab legislator Mohammad Barakeh declared Reuters he had seen two Koran books with pages that have been ripped off, and therefore called for checks to continue.

These new accusations on Koran abuse coincide with the violent protests erupted in the Muslim world over the last allegations in May of Guantanamo Bay penitentiary interrogators to have flushed a Koran down the toilet as an attempt to make prisoners talk. All the accusations made Guantamo Bay prison representative for the expression "American Gulag".

Most of the headlines about the subject are accurate in the eyes of US military investigators who revealed new aspects on the desacration of the Islamic holy book case.

In their opinion, Muslim prisoners at the Guantanamo bay detention facility commited the most serious desacration of the Koran (books urrinated on, or attempts of flushing them down the toilet) as guards are supposed to follow a special etiquette ("two hands will be used at all times when handling the Koran in a manner signaling respect and reverence")...