PRISONS MILITAIRES QUATRE ETOILES POUR LES MUZZ !

US military feeding Gitmo jihadis day and night during Ramadan

Posted on August 7, 2011
by creepingsharia

“…more than half the camp ignored Islam’s obligation to fast.”

Detainees pray in a prison camp communal area March 18, 2011 at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. PETTY OFFICER DAVID P. COLEMAN / US NAVY

With the vast majority of the prisoners at Guantánamo now marking their 10th Ramadan in a row behind the razor wire, the military is providing food around the clock for both the faithful honoring the dawn-to-dusk fast and those Muslim captives who choose to ignore it.

A prison camp spokeswoman said the U.S. military command instituted the night-and-day food distribution last year to make it easier for the captives who chose to shun the fasting ritual.

Guards then tracked the results to discover that, in the course of the month, more than half the camp ignored Islam’s obligation to fast — a figure those who work with the captives find hard to fathom.

“The average fasting percentage of the detainee population for Ramadan in 2010 was 55 percent,” said Navy Cmdr. Tamsen Reese in response to a question from The Miami Herald. “The percentage dropped after the beginning, but rose at the end of Ramadan,” when Muslims celebrate the feast called Eid al Fitr.

The result suggests that some of the 171 captives have lost faith after a decade in captivity — a surprising turnabout from earlier years, when military commanders reported near-perfect compliance and prisoners abstained from food and drink during daylight hours.

Citing Islamic sensitivities, the military also shifts to nighttime hours during Ramadan its daily forced feeding schedule of captives protesting with hunger strikes.

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For Ramadan, Reese said, the Guantánamo food service was providing four meals and two snacks, with some captives allowed to keep the food in their cellblocks to eat after sunset.

In 2008, the prison camps public affairs unit put out a photo of a display of a detainee's Ramadan breakfast meal. They called it an "ethnic meal of fresh pita bread, sweets, fruit, juice and rice with shrimp and vegetables." SPECIALIST MEGAN BURNHAM / US ARMY

Read it all to learn that lawyers and interpreters for the jihadi’s – who are too dangerous to release or try – bring snacks for the jihadis and pray with them. How many more Lynne Stewart’s are among them?

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