Compare and Contrast

Let's do a compare and contrast between how Taliban prisoners are treated by their captors at Gitmo and how American soldiers are treated by their captors in Afghanistan:

At Gitmo the Muslims are given prayer rugs, Korans, good food, exercise, and no physical suffering (as long as they don't get violent or abusive). Their religious requirements are catered to (To paraphrase Ann Coulter, finally there is a place where people are free to express their religion with American taxpayer support without the ACLU getting hysterical. Unfortunately, it's at Gitmo.). Many of the detainees have been released from their imprisonment and have turned up back on the battlefield (about a dozen have been killed there.)

Now what about how Muslims treat American prisoners:

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (July 9) - A purported Taliban spokesman said Saturday that the group has beheaded a missing American commando....

"This morning in Shagal district in Kunar province, the Taliban killed the American soldier and cut his head off," Mullah Latif Hakimi, the purported spokesman, told The Associated Press in a telephone call. "We left the body on a mountainside in this area so Afghan or U.S. soldiers there can find it."

The difference between Americans and Michael Moore's "Minutemen" is the difference between civilization and barbarism, between human and sub-human. To use Tolkienian imagery these people are brainwashed Orcs in the service of a demonic theology. And Muslims who remain silent about such horrors done in the name of their blessed religion robotically recite the chant that it's America who is the Great Satan.

Maybe Darwin was right.