Who's Ashamed?

US magazine Newsweek has said it erred in reporting that a copy of the Koran had been flushed down a toilet at Guantanamo Bay by US interrogators
"We regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the US soldiers caught in its midst," the editor, Mark Whitaker, writes.

In Pakistan, an alliance of six conservative Islamic parties has already rejected Newsweek's retraction.
Alliance leader, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, said it was "a crude attempt, both by the weekly magazine and the American authorities to defuse the anger of the Muslims across the world".

I read an interesting column davidwarrenonline.com. DW is talking about shame, or more accurately the lack of it. For the life of me I can not imagine why Mark Whitaker would publish an article like he did in the first place and then after much harm has been done and many people hurt and killed he assumes that a mere “regret” could make it all better ! ! Talk about the lack of shame. We have a flood of people coming to North America from all over the world including many Muslim countries because it is so much worse there and so much better over here and we have all these people over here who seem to be bent on destroying what we have. Desecrating a Holy book is not the thing to do however publishing an accusing article in a major magazine against your own self interests and those of all your neibours is not the thing to do either. Of course “an alliance of six conservative Islamic parties” will reject Newsweeks retraction. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to matter whether it is in their own best self-interest or not either.
As DW said, not about this issue, they should be ashamed of themselves – but then who has shame anymore?