As a BBC report from April indicates, there are allegations that guards at Guantanamo put an inmate's face in the toilet and flushed repeatedly. What if it turns out that the guards were very cautious about respecting scripture, but not people?
Six Guantanamo Bay detainees are challenging US federal authorities to reveal evidence of abuse at the camp.
The six - all of Algerian origin and extradited from Bosnia - are suing the Bush administration as part of their effort to contest their detention.
They want the government to release documents which they say would prove that prisoners were tortured.
In their legal action, they say one of the six was beaten so badly by jailers that he suffered facial paralysis.
The detainee, Mustafa Ait Idir, alleges that his hands were tied behind his back while the beating took place.
"The guards picked him up and slammed his body and his head into the steel bunk in his cell," according to legal papers filed on Wednesday at a court in Boston.
The guards then pushed his face into a toilet and "repeatedly pressed the flush button", the account continued.
It said the detainee suffered a stroke after the beating, leaving half of his face paralysed.