Posted on 05/18/2005 5:13:52 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
LOS ANGELES - A Muslim woman who said she ordered a Quran through Amazon.com only to find profanity and religious slurs written on its cover page asked Wednesday for an apology and a full investigation by the online retailer.
Azza Basarudin, 30, said that she received the Quran by mail on May 5 after ordering it through a used books division of Amazon.com that allows customers to order directly from third-party sellers approved by the company.
When she opened the Quaran, Barasudin said she found profanity and the phrase "Death to all Muslims" written on the inside page in thick black marker. Basarudin, a graduate student in women's studies at UCLA, said she was overwhelmed by fear similiar to what she felt after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks when her sister and mother were targets of anti-Muslim slurs.
"I dropped the book because I didn't know what to do," she said at a news conference at the Islamic Center of Southern California. "I was paralyzed after 9/11 - I couldn't leave my house for a couple of weeks - and I realized that fear was coming back."
Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said his orginization wants a public apology and investigation from Amazon.com, as well as the firing of those responsible for mailing the desecrated book. He would also like Amazon.com to fund educational programs that foster religious tolerance.
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At some point these guys have got to start enforcing that part.
“Linking Theory and Activism: Redefining Categorical Feminism and Feminist Theory.”
Wow. Sounds important. Something else to wipe my butt with.
Whenever I read the Koran I make it a practice to eat ham, or maybe a piece of charcoal broiled dogmeat!
"..said she was overwhelmed by fear similiar to what she felt after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks when her sister and mother were targets of anti-Muslim slurs."
We should allay they fears of all Mulims by shipping them back to Mecca.
I think it was something dreamed up by Andres Serrano who creates such art as "Piss Christ";
Tell her to send it to me. I'm recycling trash like that by using pages to wipe my a$$.
"after ordering it through a used books division of Amazon.com that allows customers to order directly from third-party sellers...."
Now why is she mad at Amazon.com?
I'm in trouble now. I laughed so loud I woke my wife up
I ordered a used book from Amazon once. Amazon took the order, forwarded it to a used book dealer, and the used book dealer drop-shipped the book to me. Amazon never saw the book.
How about "used" bacon grease!
This is an obvious sting and right out of the Al Qaeda play book.
Ya know, when you buy a high-mileage used Koran, you really need to have it checked out by a trained mechanic before you drive it home.
LOL!!!!
Yes, they need to behead those that do not idolize the koran.
How can we infidels make it clear that islamics, all of them, demand the beheading of those that do not sacriment the koran?
That's what we need to be doing. Not this infighting. We need to make it very clear that islam demands blood sacrifice for what Newsweek did.
What they did is really nothing. It's what the koran and the islamics demand now that's important.
Why is this news?
I'm starting to think these Islamonazis are taking a page from the Jesse Jackass playbook and creating these "controversial" incidents for leverage.
Women are not allow to touch the Quran during the time of the month when they are considered "unclean" by Islam.
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