Flush North Korea

I laughed out loud when I read this idiocy:

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."

"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."

"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."

Doesn't that tickle your funny-bone? North Korea--a monotheistic state which believes its "leader," Kim Dung-Hill, is god incarnate--now calls Korans "holy." And all this time, I thought the only sacred objects in that hellhole are torture devices.

This is like Hitler lecturing the Catholic Church on its treatment of Jews. Under the rulership of its tinpot dwarf demigod and his father before him, this country has squelched, stomped, and annihilated all religious freedom. It excises the expression of Christianity and other religions like pustulent boils on its dystopic rump. Its people live under the burden of some of the worst oppression imaginable. As in all communist countries, news agencies merely are organs for the dissemination of government opinion and propagandizing efforts. The uber-hypocrisy of this ruling class grows steadily with its dictator's ego.

I cannot take criticism seriously, when it emanates from a nation that has elevated murder, torture, and the stiflement of liberty to an art form.