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Thread ID: 18716 | Posts: 9 | Started: 2005-06-18
2005-06-18 22:54 | User Profile
6/16/05
BLACKSBURG, Va. ââ¬â A bag stuffed with burned Korans was left in front of an Islamic center, shocking members when they arrived for prayers. The torched copies of the Muslim holy book were inside a plastic shopping bag, members of the Islamic Center of Blacksburg said. They said the bag had been placed at the center's front door sometime before Saturday prayers.
"It is a shame that people are so ignorant," member Idris Adjerid said.
Kevin Foust, the agent in charge of the Roanoke FBI office, said Thursday his office is helping local police investigate. He declined to speculate whether the incident would be classified as a hate crime under state or federal law.
An incident can only be deemed a hate crime if it was meant to intimidate or harass, police said. Laila Al-Qatami, a spokeswoman for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington, D.C., said the Quran burning fits that definition.
"If pages from the Bible were burned and put in a bag outside a church, I think the reaction of the police would be that it would be a hate crime," she said.
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2005-06-18 23:03 | User Profile
Laila Al-Qatami, a spokeswoman for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington, D.C., said the Quran burning fits that definition.
"If pages from the Bible were burned and put in a bag outside a church, I think the reaction of the police would be that it would be a hate crime," she said.
The truth is that in today's soceity, the bible could be burned, shot, torched, stepped one, or spit on and there would be no reaction.
Due to the fact that we live in a "politically correct" soceity, we are losing touch with equality in terms of law. While it would disgust me if someone were to burn the bible, I would remember that if the individual were brought to court...any decent attorney would argue that the bible was "simply a book" and that the burning was a "freedom of expression"....However- the Quaran would most likely viewed as a heinous hate crime....and whomever burned it would probably serve 10 years to prove to the world that we are a pansy nation that will bend to the world's views...
2005-06-19 00:13 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Anastasia]A bag stuffed with burned Korans was left in front of an Islamic center, shocking members when they arrived for prayers. [/QUOTE]Let's just call it 'Art' and move on. :dry:
After all, the Jews and Christophobic Left have been insulting, humiliating, and blaspheming Christians for decades and--so they keep telling us--we are just supposed to tolerate it.
2005-06-19 01:03 | User Profile
The destruction of the Koran, use of the Bible as toilet paper, the Jewish holy book to start a fire.......so WHAT???????.
What's in your heart is what count and not a piece of paper, the spiritual feeling and your actions should be your religion a religion that should be universal.
Because I am from Cuba if someone were to call me a "refugee" am I supposed to be insulted? hell no, he aknowleges that I am from Cuba and to me that's an honor.
Same way as calling someone a "nigger" "wap" and so on, if you get angry then you are using your anger as an excuse to fight him and that's wrong.
As the old saying goes " A rose by any other name"
2005-06-19 08:28 | User Profile
[QUOTE=SERENDIPITOUS2006WP]Laila Al-Qatami, a spokeswoman for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington, D.C., said the Quran burning fits that definition. ...[/QUOTE]
But doesn't the "hate" have to be part of some other act that is defined as a crime?
The "hate" thing is only a sentence booster, it doesn't constitute a separate crime in an of itself. Or at least that's the way it used to be.
So the question is whether the act of leaving a bag of burned korans somehow constituted a crime, such as traspassing or making terrorist threats.
That would not seem to be the case, but I will defer to those more knowledgable of VA law.
2005-06-19 09:43 | User Profile
[QUOTE=SERENDIPITOUS2006WP]Due to the fact that we live in a "politically correct" soceity, we are losing touch with equality in terms of law. While it would disgust me if someone were to burn the bible, I would remember that if the individual were brought to court...any decent attorney would argue that the bible was "simply a book" and that the burning was a "freedom of expression"....However- the Quaran would most likely viewed as a heinous hate crime....and whomever burned it would probably serve 10 years to prove to the world that we are a pansy nation that will bend to the world's views...[/QUOTE]
Well said, brother. Just 30 or 40 years ago in a better day, there would have been no 'Islamic centers' allowed to stand and pollute our communities.
2005-06-19 11:27 | User Profile
Bibles are burnt in Saudi Arabia as a matter of state policy. It is illegal to possess Christian literature, and any that is confiscated by the religious police is destroyed.
2005-06-19 11:43 | User Profile
Walter,
There are always the littering laws!
2005-06-19 13:10 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]Walter,
There are always the littering laws![/QUOTE]
Littering with hateful intent.
I like it!