Looking through the various memos released detailing the United States involvement in torture, among all the many shocks, are some nasty details concerning torture that was based on the religion of the victims. A torture not only physical but also spiritual, since attempts were made to coerce the conscience of the victims. Look at these passages:

A memo dated January 17, 2003 also described techniques “used” against Khatani between November 23, 2002 and January 16, 2003, including stripping, forced grooming, invasion of space by a female interrogator, treating Khatani like an animal, using a military working dog, and forcing him to pray to an idol shrine.

The forced grooming was the shaving of Khatani’s beard, which has religious significance in Islam. And what on earth was the “idol shrine”? As for the “invasion of space by a female”, later passages gives more details:

Nor did the inquiry review an allegation that, on April 17, 2003, a female GTMO interrogator sat on a detainee’s lap “making sexual affiliated movements with he chest and pelvis while again speaking sexually oriented sentences.”

The second incident involved a female military interrogator who wiped what she tols the detainee was mentrual blood on a detainee’s face and forehead.

The memo stated that Slahi would be denied the opportunity to pray and described techniques to exploit “religious taboos,” such as using a female interrogator in “close physical contact.” The memo also stated that interrogators would play music to “stress [Slahi] because he believes music is forbidden” and that light in Slahi’s interrogation booth would be filtered with “red plastic to produce a stressful environment.” Khatani had also been denied prayer and a female interrogator touch him during his interrogation to increase his stress level.”

Horrifying.