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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I wonder what the response would be if you handed them a Bible at the same time
LOL!
Maybe this is a way for them to see who WILL toss that crap in the garbage. Wonder how many people who do that will have unexplained violence or vandalism happen?
That’s also funny. I have an image of you blasting away at everyone who steps on your property carrying a paperback.
(Actually, that's how I found mine . . . the doorbell didn't ring).
Maybe I’ll smear some bacon fat on my doorknob.
Ping
The Bible is more historical.
I wonder if it's bugged. What's embedded in the cover? Beware of islamics bearing gifts.
NW suburban Chicago. “The Land Beyond O’Hare.”
Are you sure there aren't any booby-traps around you home after this animal left your property? Also make sure the book doesn't have any strange white power in the pages.
Kindling.
I’ll be glad to have it. I operate on the principle “Known Thine Enemy.”
Not really relevant. The number of pages is based on page size, size of type, spacing, etc. You can't use # of pages to determine whether something has been added or removed.
But if you translate it into English, you can also soften up some of that embarrassing, messy stuff so it appears more benign.
agreed, but 378 pages sure seems like a “readers digest condensed version”..
Can we tell them we’ll have them arrested for trespassing if they don’t take their book with them? I DON’T want them anywhere near my house! Their ultimate goal is to take over the world.
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