Alleged Quran 'hate crime'
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Flagged by Islamic groups as a probable hate crime, a burned Quran found at the doorstep of a Virginia mosque turned out to be a case of a Muslim who wasn't sure how to properly dispose of his religion's sacred book.
Last month, members of the Islamic Center of Blacksburg said they were stunned when they arrived at the building for prayers and found a plastic shopping bag in front of the door filled with a charred copy of the Quran and the burnt pages of Arabic books, the Roanoke Times reported.
Police said they were investigating it as a possible hate crime but emphasized they had no leads.
Nevertheless, shortly after the initial report, a spokeswoman for the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee in Washington, D.C., questioned how police could consider the act anything other than a hate crime.
"Let's face it, books don't burn themselves and end up outside of a mosque. It's a willful act," Laila Al-Qatami told the Roanoke paper.
Al-Qatami said hate crimes against Muslims have increased steadily since 9-11 and spike whenever a national anti-Muslim act is covered by the media.
Recent reports of Quran desecration have set off copy-cat acts across the country, she said.
The most widely-dispersed allegation, by Newsweek, actually was retracted. The magazine had said interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay detention center placed copies of the Quran on toilets to torture Muslim inmates and in one case flushed one down the toilet. The false report was believed to have set off deadly protests in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia and Gaza City.
But in the Virginia case, local police reported yesterday that a Muslim Virginia Tech student said he left the Quran at the local mosque because it had been damaged in a fire and he hoped it could be given a respectful disposal.
The student, whose name was not released, contacted police last week, saying he planned to travel abroad and didn't know what to do with the Quran, which had been burned in a 2004 house fire, the Times reported.
The student said he left an explanatory note with the bag, but it blew away.
But they sure wanted to jump to conclusions didn't they! It had to be a hate crime, didn't it! Of course it was, why else would it be so.
I am so tired of this crap about the Quran and the Muslim Community crying every time someone lloks at a Quran wrong, puts it to close to a toliet,(where I do some of my best reading..LOL) or lets the room temp get to high for the book. Where are the news reports of the Muslims killing in the name of their religion? Thats a hate crime isn't it? I am working on what may be my definitive article on all these issues that are goingon in the world right now. I may have to make installments. And I am sure it will piss a lot of people, but I am past giving a flying leap about it.
Last month, members of the Islamic Center of Blacksburg said they were stunned when they arrived at the building for prayers and found a plastic shopping bag in front of the door filled with a charred copy of the Quran and the burnt pages of Arabic books, the Roanoke Times reported.
Police said they were investigating it as a possible hate crime but emphasized they had no leads.
Nevertheless, shortly after the initial report, a spokeswoman for the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee in Washington, D.C., questioned how police could consider the act anything other than a hate crime.
"Let's face it, books don't burn themselves and end up outside of a mosque. It's a willful act," Laila Al-Qatami told the Roanoke paper.
Al-Qatami said hate crimes against Muslims have increased steadily since 9-11 and spike whenever a national anti-Muslim act is covered by the media.
Recent reports of Quran desecration have set off copy-cat acts across the country, she said.
The most widely-dispersed allegation, by Newsweek, actually was retracted. The magazine had said interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay detention center placed copies of the Quran on toilets to torture Muslim inmates and in one case flushed one down the toilet. The false report was believed to have set off deadly protests in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia and Gaza City.
But in the Virginia case, local police reported yesterday that a Muslim Virginia Tech student said he left the Quran at the local mosque because it had been damaged in a fire and he hoped it could be given a respectful disposal.
The student, whose name was not released, contacted police last week, saying he planned to travel abroad and didn't know what to do with the Quran, which had been burned in a 2004 house fire, the Times reported.
The student said he left an explanatory note with the bag, but it blew away.
But they sure wanted to jump to conclusions didn't they! It had to be a hate crime, didn't it! Of course it was, why else would it be so.
I am so tired of this crap about the Quran and the Muslim Community crying every time someone lloks at a Quran wrong, puts it to close to a toliet,(where I do some of my best reading..LOL) or lets the room temp get to high for the book. Where are the news reports of the Muslims killing in the name of their religion? Thats a hate crime isn't it? I am working on what may be my definitive article on all these issues that are goingon in the world right now. I may have to make installments. And I am sure it will piss a lot of people, but I am past giving a flying leap about it.
