I am not talking about Guantanamo Bay, where prisoners are fed and allowed to read the Koran. This is the real deal. This is what they did and in many places still do to you if you are a political dissident in the backward societies of the Middle East.

The blog “… Or Does it Explode?” posts a link to an article in the groundbreaking Moroccan publication Tel Quel. The article is an impassioned interview with a former torturer, who confesses to the things that he and others did on orders from higher-ups, and how those actions haunt him to this day. Drowning people in buckets of feces, violently raping women, forcing male prisoners to perform sexual acts on each other, and electrical shock. Not very Islamic, is it?…

If you cannot read French, the Google translation is here, and is actually comprehensible. A suggested must read. It’s almost unbelievable.