Posted on 12/05/2005 8:13:08 PM PST by Will_Zurmacht
Mirecki hospitalized after beating
By Ron Knox, Eric Weslander (Contact)
Originally published 05:37 p.m., December 5, 2005 Updated 06:31 p.m., December 5, 2005
Douglas County sheriff’s deputies are investigating the reported beating of a Kansas University professor who gained recent notoriety for his Internet tirades against Christian fundamentalists.
Kansas University religious studies professor Paul Mirecki reported he was beaten by two men about 6:40 a.m. today on a roadside in rural Douglas County. In a series of interviews late this afternoon, Mirecki said the men who beat him were making references to the controversy that has propelled him into the headlines in recent weeks. Mirecki
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“I didn’t know them, but I’m sure they knew me,” he said.
Mirecki said he was driving to breakfast when he noticed the men tailgating him in a pickup truck.
“I just pulled over hoping they would pass, and then they pulled up real close behind,” he said. “They got out, and I made the mistake of getting out.”
He said the men beat him about the upper body with their fists, and he said he thinks they struck him with a metal object. He was treated and released at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
“I’m mostly shaken up, and I got some bruises and sore spots,” he said.
Douglas County Sheriff’s Officials are classifying the case as an aggravated battery. They wouldn’t say exactly where the incident happened, citing the ongoing investigation
The sheriff’s department is looking for the suspects, described as two white males between ages 30 and 40, one wearing a red visor and wool gloves, and both wearing jeans. They were last seen in a large pickup truck.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 843-TIPS or the sheriff’s office at 841-0007.
Mirecki recently wrote online that he planned to teach intelligent design as mythology in an upcoming course. He wrote it would be a “nice slap” in the “big fat face” of fundamentalists.
The remarks caused an uproar, Mirecki apologized, and KU announced last week the class would be canceled.
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Well, we know that they allied themselves with Muslims in Kansas. It appears as if they may be joining the "religion of peace".
(mohammad atta, 2001)
How bad is someone beat up when they are treated and realeased from the hospital and look so good the next day that people just have to take his word that he was ever beaten.
What did they beat him with, marsh mellows and cotton candy?
Wait til you know whether the alleged beaters were Christian or Muslim Fundamentalists before you praise the Lord. Could be you'll want to direct your praise to Allah or Muhamad.
I think you have them pegged, Mamzelle.
Oh, yeah - post 293? You wouldn't have me on the dreaded Virtual IgnoreTM, would you?
It is probably an American made pickup. He can't possibly know those. :-)
It is one thing to write about a rhetorical slap in the face, it is quite another to beat somebody up. You are already on record as supporting beating him up. That makes you no better than the guys that did it.
Aparently a snake charmer.
One thing leads to another. Neither is particularly helpful.
You are already on record as supporting beating him up.
Really? Where? Or did you miss the post where I stated I take no pleasure in the physical pummeling of a bubble-headed ideologue?
That makes you no better than the guys that did it.
Check my posts and you will see that I have not claimed moral superiority over the guys that did it (if indeed the incident took place as reported).
"And if it turns out to be true? Are you going to retract your comments?"
No RA I'm not going to do any such thing.
"So Morris Hattrick has been banned. It's apparently OK on FR to call for the beating up of atheists, but not to criticize Christians."
Of course, because every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, especially after the heathen get smacked around a bit!
Only if somebody is a violent POS.
Or did you miss the post where I stated I take no pleasure in the physical pummeling of a bubble-headed ideologue?
I've read your posts before, Fester. I don't believe that for one second.
Check my posts and you will see that I have not claimed moral superiority over the guys that did it (if indeed the incident took place as reported).
Nope. More like moral equality.
So you believe in beating up the heathen to show Christ's love, eh?
The the pickup truck have a "my cold dead fingers" bumper sticker?
I'm surprised the professor didn't "see" a "Bush-Cheney" bumper sticker on the "pickup truck" that the "two men" were riding in.
"I am about as concerned about this fellow's little scrape as I am about that queer that got beaten up and tied to a fence on a chilly Wyoming night."
Yup, we need more folks to praise God and kill some queers, in Jesus' name, AMEN!
"And it's up against the wall, redneck mother, ... ."
And it's up against the wall, redneck mother
Mother, who has raised her son so well
He's thirty-four, and drinkin' in a honky tonk
Just kicking hippies' asses and raising hell
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