Let's not forget the big picture:

"I saw many old people who couldn’t walk fast, and the Americans pushed and pulled them. They broke prisoners’ arms. I saw three dead bodies. One guy came from Khost. He was in a cell next to ours, and he couldn’t stand. His legs couldn’t move. They beat him so much. Then they took him to a room on the second floor. The next morning I saw them take his body down the stairs on a stretcher...

"We were not so sad when we were tortured. But when they insulted Islam it was really very difficult. They would come into the cell and search our belongings. They would pick up the Holy Koran and go through it page by page like they were looking for something. We didn’t understand what they were saying while they did this. Then they would throw the Holy Koran on the ground or drop it in the latrine.."

— A 21-year old Afghani prisoner, interviewed by human-rights researcher Daniel Rothenberg last summer

"Let's be clear: To avoid rioting in the Muslim world, the answer is not for the press in the United States to muzzle itself. The answer is for the United States to stop torturing Muslims."

— Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive