Waterboarding should never be used as an interrogation tool. It is beneath our values.
Interpretation
Waterboarding is unethical and contrary to our moral principles.
This quote by Malcolm Nance emphasizes the inhumanity of using waterboarding as a means of interrogation. It asserts that such methods are not only ineffective but also violate fundamental human values and ethical standards.
In practice
In a debate about interrogation techniques during a panel discussion on human rights.
Yes, ISIL is a terror-based insurgent army that seeks to establish a Caliphate, but the group's actual end goal is far from political: ISIL believes that, through jihad, it will bring about the Day of Judgment. This is not true Islam.
I come from an African-American family that is predominantly Muslim. I have had to covertly operate in parts of the Middle East and Africa. I've lived a Muslim life and prayed in Mosques, Husseiniyahs, and shrines where needed. One must respect Islam to understand Islam. I've read the Quran through and through a half dozen times.
I know waterboarding is torture because I have been on the giving and receiving end of the practice.
I saw the waterboarding device in Cambodia's notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh and did not see another until I was strapped down on an identical one at SERE. Waterboarding was administered as a 'stress demonstrator' to show that an enemy could make one say anything. And one does.
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?
Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed
I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.
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