Posted on 05/18/2008 5:06:22 AM PDT by Man50D
If you're in your front yard, working in the flower bed or chatting with a neighbor, they'll pass by silently to attach one of the bags they're carrying to your frontdoor knob and leave without speaking or engaging you in debate.
Their mission? To place a copy of the Quran in every home in the United States.
"We're just trying to be honest brokers of information," Wajahat Sayeed, founder and director of Book of Signs, which is also known as the Al-Furqaan Foundation, told the Chicago Tribune. "You make your own judgment."
Al-Furqaan is distributing its 378-page paperback English translation of Islam's holy book using teams of paid walkers who descend on neighborhoods, going door-to-door, much like other deliverers of newpapers and advertisements. They don't hand them directly to residents but, instead, leave them at the front door – but never on the ground. That would be disrespectful.
The translation's forward asks readers to treat the book with respect. Those objecting to the free copy of the Quran are requested to call the foundation phone number to have it retrieved or to make a donation to a local mosque.
According to Sayeed, who checks for messages daily, 30 percent are appreciative, another 30 percent are indifferent and requesting that the book be taken back and the rest are often filled with expletives.
"It is not pleasant to hear that after all the effort you made," said Sayeed, who works full time for the foundation in addition to being a strategy consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The Addison, Ill.-based organization says it has distributed more than 30,000 free copies of the Quran to homes around Houston, Texas, and another 70,000 in the Chicago area, including the evangelical stronghold of Wheaton.
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So when I throw it in the garbage, do I get arrested?
Coming to landfills near you: tons of unwanted Korans.
Can you request 2 ply?
Man, I hope they come by my house so that they I can join the 30% who chased them off their properties with expletives.
Where is the money coming from and what has been left out in the translated version?
Educating the public about your violent religion.
Go for it..
I hope they bring me one so I can crap on it.
I think you are correct. A koran on my front porch will travel directly to the trash bin.
There also might be a dramatic increase of small fires too.
What a waste!
I've got a perfectly beeyewtiful wood chipper -- and a big garden that's yearnin' for mulch.
I'll take as many of those pulp-piles as I can get my hands on! :)
On the other hand, perhaps I should take out the ol' box-cutters (seems appropriate, given the material, donchathink? :) and slice out the pages, and then wrap a modest quantity of high-quality organic fertilizer (I hope they don't start making cow-eyes at my goats!) -- I think I can make some decent $$$ selling it "lovingly-wrapped in genuine Koran pages -- each packet $1, sufficient for medium sized planter (large houseplant, tomato vine, etc.); biodegradable, convenient-use packet! Punch several holes in packet, and place in dirt below your transplant -- or, tack it to your doorpost to ward off unwanted pests."
(Still, I doubt I will be able to resist the urge to set out an old toilet by the driveway with a sign: "Authorized Koran Receptical -- place Korans HERE or face prosecution for trespassing, vandalism, and disturbing the peace. All access captured by multiple video security cameras, recordings stored OFF-site. Have a nice day, inch-alla!")
now now..you can’t possibly think they’d intentionally leave out all the “death to the kufir” stuff, do you?/s
Sounds like a Gideon Society, but financed by your local gas station.
Must be a pretty thin copy, if they took out all the Bad Stuff.
For wheelgun users, I would suggest the 110 Grain Blitz in .38. I was disgusted by an after market auto repair manual years ago and made confetti. Go ahead,..I won't tell Reuters!
Or else what?
Paperback, black cover with gold letters/ornaments, 378 pages, back cover is marked $14.95.
Overtime for the garbage workers ping
this is 378 pages..does anyone know how many pages the original quran, qu’ran, koran, qoran however the heck it’s spelled have?
A chicken in every pot and a Koran in every toilet!
I’ve read the Koran. It’s really pretty good. I enjoyed it but not as a religious book. It’s more “artish” like a book of poetry.
I thought it didn’t count unless it was in Arabic.
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