{"id":1309,"date":"2014-12-15T13:08:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T13:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2014-12-14T22:10:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T22:10:16","slug":"the-torture-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2014\/12\/15\/the-torture-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Torture Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

As an American, it’s painful to read the recently released Torture Report (United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence\u2019s report on the CIA\u2019s enhanced interrogation techniques).<\/p>\n

The only U.S. Senator who was tortured — that would be John McCain — has vociferously opposed the use of torture on American detainees.<\/p>\n

He said the practices “fly in the face of everything that America values and stands for. It’s about us: what we were, what we are, and what we should be, and that’s a nation that does not engage in these kinds of violations of the fundamental basic human rights that we guaranteed when we declared our independence,” he said in comments reported by CBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We all know who the targets of these “enhanced interrogation techniques” are. <\/p>\n

What sort of response do we — who share the same religion as these “targets” — make?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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