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Donald Trump Signs Executive Order to Keep Guantánamo Bay Open

posted by martyb on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the indefinite-detention dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

Donald Trump has signed an executive order to keep the Guantánamo Bay prison camp open, reversing the policy of the Obama administration.

In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, Trump said he had directed the defence secretary, James Mattis, "to re-examine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay". He added that he expected that "in many cases" captured terrorists would be sent to the camp.

The Trump executive order instructs Mattis, in consultation with the secretary of state and other officials, to deliver a new policy on battlefield detentions, "including policies governing transfer of individuals to US Naval Station Guantánamo Bay" within 90 days.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/30/guantanamo-bay-trump-signs-executive-order-to-keep-prison-open

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday February 02 2018, @03:25PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday February 02 2018, @03:25PM (#632018)

    It is easy and normal to declare that somebody with very slightly different beliefs is an infidel, and then of course the religion requires that they be subdued and ideally exterminated.

    The following religious viewpoints are known to have had that viewpoint at some point in their history:
    - Judaism
    - Roman paganism
    - Celtic paganism
    - Norse paganism
    - Catholicism
    - Eastern Orthodox
    - Protestantism
    - Buddhism
    - Shinto
    - Hinduism
    - atheism (I know, it's not a religion, but there have been anti-religious zealots who've tried to murder everyone who didn't give up their religion)

    Which makes tiny minority of Muslims who support violence to spread their faith the rule, not the exception.

    The only religions that have never been used to justify violence are the absolute pacifist ones, such as Quakerism, Jainism, and Baha'i. Partial credit also goes to religions that only allow their people to fight in immediate self-defense, such as Jehovah's Witnesses and Sikhs.

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