N. Korea blasts U.S.
for Quran scandal

Despite Newsweek's retraction of the Quran-in-the-toilet story, the official North Korean news agency yesterday blasted the U.S. for violating the human rights of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

"American soldiers flushed holy Qurans down toilets in a bid to wrest concessions from prisoners at the Guantanamo POW Camp," claimed the North Korean story.

Minju Joson, in a signed commentary for the government news agency, termed the incident "a direct product of the U.S. policy of abusing human rights. Nothing is more intolerable insult to the personality of the Muslims and more unbearable encroachment upon their human rights than this profanation of their holy Qurans."

North Korea, considered one of the worst human rights abusers in the world, and a nation that persecutes people for practicing their faith, scolded the U.S. for not recognizing "religious freedom is an elementary right granted to a human being."

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"Under the pretext of 'anti-terrorism,' the United States arrested and imprisoned Muslims en masse and has inflicted all descriptions of mental and physical sufferings upon them," charged North Korea. "It has committed unheard-of inhuman criminal acts which stun the world as evidenced by what happened at the Abu Ghraib prison. As noted in a report released by the U.S. State Department some days ago, the number of the cases of abuses of prisoners by the U.S. forces in Iraq reached 190. This shows that the U.S. is harboring extreme antipathy toward the Muslims."

North Korea has been under fire from the U.S. and the international community for human rights abuses as well as its nuclear weapons policy. Apparently, Pyongyang welcomed the opportunity provided by the Newsweek scandal to attack the U.S. for hypocrisy.

"This is the practice of the U.S. which advocates human rights, while talking about the 'religious freedom,'" the article continued. "The U.S. has no right to talk about human rights as it abhors Islam merely because it differs from its own religion and pursues national chauvinism."

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