Quote Originally Posted by The Man
And as to this being torture -- no it isn't. No one is being beaten or denied medical care. We make people listen to rap and turn up the air conditioner, both things Americans do to themselves on a fairly regular basis. And people in nursing homes and hospitals crap themselves daily.

But cold rooms and rap music aren't torture. Crapping your pants isn't torture. Gourmet dinners aren't torture.
Well, whose definition are you using? I'm using the UN's:
any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.
Playing rap music at loud volumes in the presence of Muslims certainly could be considered inflicting severe mental suffering.
How can a cold room and rap music be torture for a Muslim if millions of western teenagers do the exact same thing to themselves?

The standard is pain and suffering. Vanilla Ice aside, rap isn't pain and suffering. Anything that a person might choose to do for themselves almost by definition cannot be torture.