Posted on 05/19/2005 4:45:27 PM PDT by Cornpone
A Culver City woman said Wednesday that a secondhand Koran she ordered through a book dealer working with Amazon.com contained anti-Islamic hate messages, including profanity and "Death to all Muslims!" Azza Basarudin, a 30-year-old UCLA graduate student, said Amazon apologized, sent a new book and offered her a refund and gift certificate. But she and the Muslim Public Affairs Council called on the online bookseller to do more, including issuing a public condemnation of anti-Muslim hate speech and cutting commercial ties with the Pennsylvania-based book dealer that sent the Koran. Holding up the book to display the messages at a news conference Wednesday, Basarudin said the incident resurrected the fear she felt after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when anxiety about anti-Muslim sentiment made her reluctant to leave her apartment for two weeks. "I was taken back to 9/11, my fear that somebody is going to hurt me," Basarudin said at the Islamic Center of Southern California in Los Angeles.
"I felt that fear coming back. It really hurt me." Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith called the incident "appalling." She said the Seattle-based firm had worked with the book dealer, Bellwether Books, to strengthen quality-control checks and suspended it from selling Korans on Amazon's website. "We're deeply sorry and we think we've taken all appropriate steps to make sure this is not done again," Smith said. The Los Angeles-based Muslim council also released a hate message left on the voicemail of the Islamic Center on Saturday. In a taunting tone, the caller said he had just used the Koran in the bathroom and flushed it down the toilet. The Southern California incidents followed an international furor over reports that U.S. military interrogators had flushed a Koran down the toilet to unnerve prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. The reports, which Newsweek magazine first reported then retracted this week, helped spark anti-American violence that led to deaths in Afghanistan.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations released a study last week that showed reported hate crimes against Muslims nationwide in 2004 increased 52% over the previous year, to 141 incidents. There was also a 49% increase in alleged civil rights violations, to 1,522. (MORE)
I think I'll go out and riot, throw a brick through a Starbuck's window and maybe kill someone or a cute little puppy or bunny. That'll show those stinky infidels!
Does anyone wonder why this is even newsworthy? A used book? When their religious leaders, newspapers, and television spew hatred every single day of the year?
CAIR is working aginst their own goals promoting this nonsense. They have no credibility.
Diva's Husband
>"We had loads of fun with this topic last night.Who the hell buys used korans anyway."<
Hey, man! Don't, like, bum me out an' stuff, man...what am I supposed to do when my Charmin supply runs low, anyway, dude?
</EXTREME SARCASM by: a Professional on a closed course. Do not attempt on a home computer. Ripostes in the mirror are more wickedly sharp than they appear. Poetic license and thumb taxes extra.>
A.A.C.
Leave the Kitties Alone:)
I hear ya! And I really don't like having to think that way...it goes againt MY religion.
I always wondered what Malcolm X would look like after 40 years in the grave...he hasn't improved much.
The timer has been set. I’d reckon it’d be about 48 hours until we learn this outrage was perpetrated by her, and ineptly too.
| You people should have more sympathy! [9.29] Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection. [9.30] And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!  I bought a Koran and finding this desecration written in it I had the same reaction! The funny thing is, it seems to have been written in every copy I've found! If the Muslims will come take that back, then I'd be happy to come fix her Koran. Otherwise, it's just tit-for-tat. |
As someone who has studied the Koran (Qur'an...or whatever) do you believe as I do that it was actually substantially composed by Mohammed's first wife? What irony...a religion that hates women was inspired by a woman who simply sought artistic expression through a narcissistic fool.
Which was the hate? The stuff written on the cover, or that BETWEEN the covers? Seems to me that by definition the ignoble koran is hate lit, so she should just STFU and deal with it.
Well said:)
This is like the Professor in L A that said someone wrote hate messages on her care.
Turned out, she did itherself. She was convicted for filing a false report.
Future DNC chairperson there, needs a new barber and ought to fire his dentist.
Let me get this straight. We see images of planes flying into buildings, car bombings, beheadings, executions of Iraqi policemen, mass graves,hands being chopped off, tongues being cut out,women being stoned to death...and she is afraid because there are some words disparaging Islam written in her used koran? Give me a break. How stupid do they think we are?
Sorry:(
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