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In news that will surprise no-one, it has now been officially revealed that Al-Qaeda terrorists love Harry Potter and Twilight!
The sickening liberalism of this story repulses me on many separate levels. First of all, books like Harry Potter and Twilight shouldn't be read by anyone, they should just be burned. Secondly, terrorists and/or Muslims shouldn't be reading anything at all, they should just be dead. But perhaps the most upsetting part is the knowledge that, instead of being punished or forced to read anything with any redeeming social value, these people are being allowed to read the hate-filled rantings of the dark leader, Baraq HUSSEIN Osama! Is this place meant to be stopping terrorism or breeding it? 
He has sold millions of copies of his books around the world, but it turns out that President Barack Obama's memoirs are near the bottom of prisoners' reading lists at Guantánamo Bay.
The 176 prisoners at the US facility have access to 18,000 books, magazines, DVDs and newspapers across 18 languages from their prison library, according to an investigation by Time magazine. The most popular titles among inmates are the Harry Potter books, novels by John Grisham and Agatha Christie, and Islamic texts. Prisoners are also keen to get their hands on photo-packed travel books, particularly ones featuring the ocean.
"I tell ya, Dan Brown's been beating me up lately," navy lieutenant Robert Collett told Time. "All his books are very popular, but we don't have all of them in Arabic." The International Committee of the Red Cross will sometimes help out when a particular translation can't be found, sending its staff to local stores to pick up copies because it believes that "access to books and news from the outside is very important to the prisoners' mental state".
Civil rights lawyer H Candace Gorman sent the library an Arabic edition of a Harry Potter book herself because it did not have all of the published titles and her client, the Libyan national Abdul al-Ghizzawi, was keen to keep up with the boy wizard's adventures. "The guards were telling him things that had happened in the book, but he didn't know if it was true or not," she told Time. Ghizzawi saw similarities between his own situation and that of the prisoners of Azkaban, and between George W Bush and Voldemort, she said.
The Guantánamo library contains no books by political or religious extremists and nothing with excessive violence or a military focus. It also prohibits sexual content. Other books on offer include JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series and the Arabic self-help title Don't Be Sad. But Time reported that, while the library also offers Obama's books and they are read periodically, "the detainees aren't exactly fighting one another to read them".
The 176 prisoners at the US facility have access to 18,000 books, magazines, DVDs and newspapers across 18 languages from their prison library, according to an investigation by Time magazine. The most popular titles among inmates are the Harry Potter books, novels by John Grisham and Agatha Christie, and Islamic texts. Prisoners are also keen to get their hands on photo-packed travel books, particularly ones featuring the ocean.
"I tell ya, Dan Brown's been beating me up lately," navy lieutenant Robert Collett told Time. "All his books are very popular, but we don't have all of them in Arabic." The International Committee of the Red Cross will sometimes help out when a particular translation can't be found, sending its staff to local stores to pick up copies because it believes that "access to books and news from the outside is very important to the prisoners' mental state".
Civil rights lawyer H Candace Gorman sent the library an Arabic edition of a Harry Potter book herself because it did not have all of the published titles and her client, the Libyan national Abdul al-Ghizzawi, was keen to keep up with the boy wizard's adventures. "The guards were telling him things that had happened in the book, but he didn't know if it was true or not," she told Time. Ghizzawi saw similarities between his own situation and that of the prisoners of Azkaban, and between George W Bush and Voldemort, she said.
The Guantánamo library contains no books by political or religious extremists and nothing with excessive violence or a military focus. It also prohibits sexual content. Other books on offer include JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series and the Arabic self-help title Don't Be Sad. But Time reported that, while the library also offers Obama's books and they are read periodically, "the detainees aren't exactly fighting one another to read them".
Jesus!
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