Torture by Music

Should I mention the raised eyebrow caused by the idea that the Brand Davidians were exposed to worse sound effects than prisoners at Gitmo? The Dalai Lama was sufficiently disturbed at the use of Buddhist chants to annoy Christians belonging to an Adventist offshoot to protest the matter -- but then His Holiness doesn't recommend the conversion of Christians to Buddhism, he suggests instead that they should take a deeper look at their own tradition.

And what music exactly were the Gitmo captives exposed to? We learn this from a later paragraph in the article in the Gitmo quote:

David Sheffer, a senior State Department human rights official in the Clinton administration who teaches law at George Washington University, said the procedure of shackling prisoners to the floor in a state of undress while playing loud music - the Guantanamo sources said it included the bands Limp Bizkit and Rage Against the Machine, and the rapper Eminem - and lights clearly constituted torture.

I suppose the choice is made with an appropriate understanding of the significance of public diplomacy -- in this case, attuning culturally deprived Islamists to the finer nuances of western culture?