| | The '''Abu Ghraib prison''' ([[Arabic]]: سجن أبو غريب; also Abu Ghurayb) is in [[Abu Ghraib]], an [[Iraq]]i city 32 km (20 mi) west of [[Baghdad]]. Before the US Army [[freedom|liberated]] Abu Ghraib prison and turned it into a place in where [[God]]'s work is done, it was a place in where [[Saddam Hussein]]'s government [[torture]]d and executed dissidents. | | The '''Abu Ghraib prison''' ([[Arabic]]: سجن أبو غريب; also Abu Ghurayb) is in [[Abu Ghraib]], an [[Iraq]]i city 32 km (20 mi) west of [[Baghdad]]. Before the US Army [[freedom|liberated]] Abu Ghraib prison and turned it into a place in where [[God]]'s work is done, it was a place in where [[Saddam Hussein]]'s government [[torture]]d and executed dissidents. |
| − | Whereas many prison guards are unconcerned with spreading the word of God, the guards who served during 2004 are well known for their services to [[Christianity]]. The majority of those converted to Christianity were [[Muslims]]. In the words of former prisoner and now Christian Ameen Saeed Al-Sheik: | + | Whereas many prison guards are unconcerned with spreading the word of God, the guards who served during 2004 are well known for their services to [[Christianity]]. The majority of those converted to Christianity in Abu Ghraib prison were [[Muslims]]. In the words of former prisoner and now Christian Ameen Saeed Al-Sheik: |
| | ''Do you pray to Allah?' one asked. I said yes. They said, '[Expletive] you. And [expletive] him.' One of them said, 'You are not getting out of here health[y], you are getting out of here handicapped. And he said to me, 'Are you married?' I said, 'Yes.' They said, 'If your wife saw you like this, she will be disappointed.' One of them said, 'But if I saw her now she would not be disappointed now because I would rape her.'" [...] "They ordered me to thank Jesus that I'm alive." [...] "I said to him, 'I believe in Allah.' So he said, 'But I believe in torture and I will torture you.'' | | ''Do you pray to Allah?' one asked. I said yes. They said, '[Expletive] you. And [expletive] him.' One of them said, 'You are not getting out of here health[y], you are getting out of here handicapped. And he said to me, 'Are you married?' I said, 'Yes.' They said, 'If your wife saw you like this, she will be disappointed.' One of them said, 'But if I saw her now she would not be disappointed now because I would rape her.'" [...] "They ordered me to thank Jesus that I'm alive." [...] "I said to him, 'I believe in Allah.' So he said, 'But I believe in torture and I will torture you.'' |