Burned Qurans Left at Va. Muslim Center

AP ^ | 6/16/05

[ambrose]

Burned Qurans Left at Va. Muslim Center

By Associated Press

June 16, 2005, 9:52 PM EDT

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- A bag stuffed with burned Qurans was left in front of an Islamic center, shocking members when they arrived for prayers.

The torched copies of the Muslim holy book were inside a plastic shopping bag, members of the Islamic Center of Blacksburg said. They said the bag had been placed at the center's front door sometime before Saturday prayers.

"It is a shame that people are so ignorant," member Idris Adjerid said.

Kevin Foust, the agent in charge of the Roanoke FBI office, said Thursday his office is helping local police investigate. He declined to speculate whether the incident would be classified as a hate crime under state or federal law.

[magslinger]

If you don't believe that the Koran is a holy book, is there anything wrong in burning it?

If flag burning is protected free speech, why is koron burning a hate crime?

[rabidralph]

Guess which is more offensive to liberals--burning korans or burning WTC, Pentagon and jetliner?

[Random Nonsense]

.. Koran is a holy book ..

What are you on now ? Koran or Qur'an is crap. By the way, have you read it ?

[FreedomAvatar]

What a great use of time and taxpayer money for the Federal Bovine Institute to investigate a legitimate expression of free speech.

[Paul Atreides]

The same thing that those 3,000 people did to provoke 9-11, so we're told.

[NeoCaveman]

I'd rather be a Koran in the U.S. than a Bible in Saudi Arabia.

[cdbull23]

I hope you're joking.

[sinkspur]

The same thing that those 3,000 people did to provoke 9-11, so we're told.

You were told that, by these Muslims in Virginia?

[Hank Rearden]

Public service but still littering I guess.

Nah. Simply misplaced garbage dumping.

[Paul Atreides]

Nope. I was told that by the anti-American left. You see, if it applies to us, then it must apply to them.

[ArmedNReady]

"American Muslims"

There are no American muslims, there are only muslims whose first and only allegiance is to islam and other muslims.

Islam is NOT a religion. It is a terrorist organization that masquerades as a religion so it can "fly under the radar".

[sinkspur]

There are no American muslims,

There are American Muslims. That you don't realize that is ignorance on your part.

[sinkspur]

I was told that by the anti-American left. You see, if it applies to us, then it must apply to them.

That's pretty dopey.

[Zack Nguyen]

This isn't right. I am a Christian, and people should treat others with more respect than this.

[Paul Atreides]

Don't blame me, I didn't make up moral relativism.

[CommandoFrank]

The Mosque would have made a bigger flame...

[sinkspur]

I didn't make up moral relativism.

But you've adopted it.

[Onelifetogive]

A bag stuffed with burned Qurans was left in front of an Islamic center, shocking members...

"It is a shame that people are so ignorant," member Idris Adjerid said...

Ignorant /ig-no-runt/ adj. - A serious affliction characterized by irrational overreactions, such as being "shocked" at the site of burned sheets of paper.....

[hunter112]

What a waste of perfectly good paper.

The paper was already wasted when it went through the printing press.

[Mad Mammoth]

I'm waiting for some enterprising soul to make a video clip of himself taking a great big ol' royal whiz on the Quran, then dousing it in lighter fluid, topped off with a match and great big *WHOOOOMP* (that's the sound you get when something ignites suddenly, eh?), and be sure that video gets distributed round 'n round the world via that marvelous Al Gore invention, the Internet.

Hmmm, maybe I'll get out the ol web camera tonite... ;)