CAIR workers pack copies of the Qur’an to be shipped out to Americans.
*It was paid for by the government and donations, and the royalties made Hitler a millionaire.
Suits me. TP is $8.00 for twelve double rolls at Kroger.
CAIR offering free bum-wad! Alright!
File this under know your enemy.
Read it today by choice or tomorrow by force.
Guantanamo Base took delivery today of their new Qu'ran Light Delivery Vehicle - Wheeled. The anxious Marines could hardly wait to drive the crap out of it.
Oh! Excellent, I can use them for some of my new artistic endeavers. Now I just need a large clear container big enough to hold it and an artsy fartsy NY gallery to display my work.
I haven't decided if I'm going to go with pig's blood or urine as the suspending medium yet.
Wonder if this will be an edited edition, you know with all the parts taken out where they call for killing Christians and Jews?
Free you say? Oh goodie! Another one for the outside john.
I'm going to need a bigger toilet.
I wonder what happens when you burn a copy of the Koran... Does the smoke release a genie who grants wishes?
Sorry, couldn't resist! =D
Muslims offer prayers, Qurans on town green
by Michael Herzenberg
(New Haven-WTNH, June 3, 2005 10:40 PM) _ Muslims gathered in New Haven Friday in hopes of spreading a message of understanding. This, as new information comes to light about abuse of the Quran by U.S. military personnel.
The Pentagon confirms a U.S. soldier deliberately kicked a copy of the Quran belonging to a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. There are other confirmed incidents as well. All this comes after Newsweek retracted a story about a guard flushing a Quran down a toilet. It was that report and worldwide reaction which sparked the demonstration Friday evening in downtown New Haven.
Dozens of Connecticut Muslims brought prayer to the open air to help others understand their religion.
"We're doing this to educate," says Imam Dawood Yasin from Masjid Al Islam.
Congregates from area mosques read the whole Quran in one sitting, assigning sections of the text to men, women, and children.
The effort is in response to the negative publicity the Islamic holy book recently received around Newsweek's retracted article about a U.S. soldier flushing a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's copy of the Quran in a toilet.
"We've seen kind of a violent response," says Dawood Yasin. "We've seen death in Afghanistan by what was then called or what was retractions from Newsweek. We've taken a different approach. We're saying come read what is in our book."
"We just want to share with our fellow Americans how important is the Quran for us," says Aziz Amezzane of West Haven. "It's very important."
"We have a message to bring that we're here, there's nothing to be afraid of," says Yasin. "We have a book that we feel is a beautiful book and we want to share it with people."
It's a message noticed by people passing by the demonstration and one well received.
"I never saw that before so I think it's great," says Javier Castillo of New Haven.
"That was nice to see and I think it helps dispel a lot of fears that people have just to see them offering prayers peacefully," says Sehar Dariq.
The Muslims also gave away free copies of the Quran, translated into English, hoping people will read them and grow.
Well I guess we get to do the toilet test for ourselves.
UNLIKE ISLAMOFASCISTS
Like most religious texts, the Koran is most suitable for use as a sedative. When I dip into it, it most reminds me of the Book of Mormon. In my opinion, both texts consist of dull, pretentious, repetitive prose. This could be because each was written by one inadequately educated person. I think it must mean something that both writers decided that God/Allah was enthusiastic about polygamy. It is beyond my comprehension that anyone could be converted by exposure to either of these books.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/mormon/
However I have no doubt that many, many Muslims and Mormons live good, constructive lives in spite of the misfortune of having awful religious texts.
I find similar problem with the writings of those who founded the Ba'hai faith, although I know very good people who adhere to this religion.
http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/KA/
I have not tried to read any Hindu texts, or any of the Torah.
It seems to me it would be hard to write something that could compare with the King James version of the New Testament or the mythologies of the Greek and Roman gods.