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Woman says she received desecrated Quran through Amazon.com
San Diego Union Tribune ^
| 5/18/2005
| Gillian Flaccus
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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TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: bs; bullsheet; fabricatedhatecrimes; fingerinthechili; hamsandwichmmmm; humanfingers; islam; koran; kuran; menstruatingmuslims; muslim; porkchopsaregood; quran; salamalmarayati
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
$$$$$KA-CHING$$$$$Facinating how these things seem to come up at just the right time, wouldn't you say?
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posted on
05/18/2005 6:11:56 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
Anyone else sick of these muslims yet?
82
posted on
05/18/2005 6:13:19 PM PDT
by
Bullish
To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
Oh Sh!!!!t she go my old book, too bad honey get a better life.
83
posted on
05/18/2005 6:19:38 PM PDT
by
rodguy911
(Time to get rid of the UN and the ACLU)
To: 4.1O dana super trac pak; Lazamataz
When is the next art show? I want to enter a "Holy Koran" submerged in a jar of urine! Maybe, just to be different from the previous similar piece of work, I'll take a crap in it too.
Hey, if its good enough for a crucifix, then its good enough for the book of the "religion of peace."
84
posted on
05/18/2005 6:20:56 PM PDT
by
Tatze
(I voted for John Kerry before I voted against him!)
To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
Basarudin, a graduate student in women's studies at UCLA, The grad student did it ...
To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
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. Azza loada crap. Gimme that damn book; when I'm through with it she'll drop dead on the spot, terminally traumatized.
Stupid Moos.
86
posted on
05/18/2005 6:21:18 PM PDT
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
Send it to Newsweek, I think it belongs to one of their journalists.
87
posted on
05/18/2005 6:21:35 PM PDT
by
TheForceOfOne
(My tagline is currently being blocked by Congressional filibuster for being to harsh.)
To: wyattearp
The last used kooorran I bought had an autographed picture of bevis and butthead in it, it's priceless now.
88
posted on
05/18/2005 6:21:42 PM PDT
by
rodguy911
(Time to get rid of the UN and the ACLU)
To: Bullish
I am, and I'll guarantee if there is another successful attack on the US by believers in the Holy Quran, she and the rest of the followers of the Religion of Peace, will be living in stump holes and only coming out at night, because they will be shot on sight.
89
posted on
05/18/2005 6:22:20 PM PDT
by
Comus
(Nuke'em til they glow and shoot'em in the dark)
To: Congressman Billybob
Who the $@#%&#$$#% buys a used holy book?
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posted on
05/18/2005 6:23:49 PM PDT
by
AmishDude
(Join the AmishDude fan club: "Very well put, AD. As usual." -- Howlin; "ROFL!" -- Dan from Michigan)
To: RippleFire
Is that the Kooorannn logo?
91
posted on
05/18/2005 6:25:16 PM PDT
by
rodguy911
(Time to get rid of the UN and the ACLU)
To: Textide
92
posted on
05/18/2005 6:25:45 PM PDT
by
Tatze
(I voted for John Kerry before I voted against him!)
To: AmishDude
That's what stinks about this story above anything else. Had she been a devout Muslim, she would have purchased a NEW Quran from an Islamic dealer, of which many exist in the US, rather than risk buying a used Holy Book that might have been defiled by an unbeliever.
Check her CV on my post above -- she's an anti-Western academic agitator. Five bucks says this is yet another phony "hate crime," done to pick Amazon's deep pockets, and whip up sentiment against Racist AmeriKKKa among the Islamist/Leftist idiot hordes.
93
posted on
05/18/2005 6:28:34 PM PDT
by
TFFKAMM
To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
Basarudin, who said her sister and mother were taunted for wearing headscarves after Sept. 11, wants more than a gift certificate and apology. No kidding. Yep...another get rich quick scheme.
To: TFFKAMM
UCLA grad school--Talk about a mosluuumm bastion of liberalism mixed in with weirdo religious fanatics who don't have a clue who they are; unbelievable.
95
posted on
05/18/2005 6:31:03 PM PDT
by
rodguy911
(Time to get rid of the UN and the ACLU)
To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
Oh, some people have no sense of humor.
96
posted on
05/18/2005 6:31:13 PM PDT
by
Hildy
( The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue)
To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
Just think of the horror if she had received one with bacon grease on it!
97
posted on
05/18/2005 6:32:19 PM PDT
by
NCjim
(The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
How in the hell did THIS make the news?
If it was a Bible, I couldn't get my neighbors to listen, yet this gets put in a newspaper?
98
posted on
05/18/2005 6:32:47 PM PDT
by
softwarecreator
(Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
To: dennisw
She is kinda cute. When she gets out in the real world and discovers her degree is like the koran it's only good to wipe your ass, she can do my laundry.
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posted on
05/18/2005 6:32:51 PM PDT
by
rodguy911
(Time to get rid of the UN and the ACLU)
To: wyattearp
If the book is used, the markings may have been made by the previuos owner after he converted.
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