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Pig's head tossed into Lewiston (Maine) mosque
MaineToday.com ^ | 7/5/06 | AP

Posted on 07/06/2006 11:59:52 AM PDT by wagglebee

LEWISTON — A 33-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly threw a severed pig's head into a Lewiston mosque while a group of Muslim men were praying.

The frozen pig's head was rolled into the Lewiston Auburn Islamic Center on Lisbon Street about 10:15 p.m. Monday, witnesses told the Sun Journal of Lewiston.

About 40 men were bowed down as part of their prayer ritual when the incident occurred. They got up and ran outside but were unable to locate anyone. None of the men was hit by the animal head.

Brent Matthews of Lewiston went to the police department Tuesday, told a detective he had thrown the head and was charged with desecration of a place of worship, a misdemeanor.

The charge is considered a hate-bias crime, so Matthews' case will be referred to the Attorney General's Office for further investigation, Lt. Don Mailhot said.

Pigs are considered unclean by Muslims, who are barred from eating pork, and the act was viewed as a deliberate insult upon the religion.

Lewiston police bagged the head as evidence and took it to the police station, witnesses said. Police Lt. Mark Watson said the head was then disposed of.

Matthews, who was out on bail, "admitted to doing it," Mailhot said. "He thought it was funny; it was going to be a big joke. The police department doesn't take anything like that lightly."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: andyandopieshow; crossinurine; desecration; doublestandard; ham; hatecrime; hatecrimes; islam; muslims; nea; pc; pig; piglet; politicalcorrectness; politicallycorrect; pork; porkchopsapplesauce; religion; religiousintolerance; summerham; thoughtcrime
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To: MplsSteve

they were gonna do their ablutions where ever the F*** they felt like it - the rest of us non-believers would just have to tolerate their diversity.

Ah-h-h yes, it is WE who are to become assimilated to THEM, in the great religion of Diversity.


41 posted on 07/06/2006 12:27:15 PM PDT by hardworking
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To: wagglebee

This man is a jerk. No one should be doing this to anybody, regardless of their religion.


42 posted on 07/06/2006 12:27:38 PM PDT by Mazda3Fan
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To: MarineDad
Too bad the police did not throughly investigate the crime scene.......including a weapons and explosives sweep.
43 posted on 07/06/2006 12:28:06 PM PDT by newcthem
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To: justshutupandtakeit
I do not know the name of the sect but it was told to me by a Muslim in Algeria about 30 years ago.

He could have been bull shipping me.
44 posted on 07/06/2006 12:28:29 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: Skip Ripley
Uh-oh. A voice of reason. Now you've done it!
45 posted on 07/06/2006 12:29:06 PM PDT by A.P.M.
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To: wagglebee

46 posted on 07/06/2006 12:30:08 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: weegee

I'm not going to defend State supported art in general...Unless it's a really nice oil painting of dogs playing poker.

That's art!


47 posted on 07/06/2006 12:30:21 PM PDT by Skip Ripley
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To: Calpernia
People still butcher live food. I actually find it healthier.

It is. However my Grandmother raised chickens, both for eating and for eggs. I don't recall seeing any in the kitchen, before she pulled their heads off that is. Her method of beheading them involved galoshes and a convenient flat rock out in the farmyard, near the steps leading up to the house. She'd place the chicken's head on the rock, with her galosh clad foot on top of the head. Then she'd just pull on the rest of the chicken. Very effective and faster than it sounds.

I have a very graphic picture in my head of the old phrase "running around like a chicken with it's head off". Boy do I. :) Best chicken we ever ate though. When she moved off the farm (we purchased our chickens from her, already "dressed" and frozen) we had to go to "store bought", and they were terrible.

Grandma did free range chickens before it became "in".

48 posted on 07/06/2006 12:31:41 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: MplsSteve

amazing...

this is a "hate" crime.....but the teens who BURNED DOWN CHURCHES all over Alabama was a teen prank....

the college kid who plowed an SUV through his fellow students was an act of stress- poor guy felt neglected ostracised and picked on......

terrorists are freedom fighters- they fight for the freedom of the guys with guns to dictate and oppress......

it all makes perfect sense, eh?

gotta love it!


49 posted on 07/06/2006 12:32:39 PM PDT by eeevil conservative (I am your worst nightmare. I am not a racist, terrorist, or nativist. I am an AMERICAN, & I Vote!)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

While nothing is too crazy to attribute to the followers of Mad Mo I never heard of this one.


50 posted on 07/06/2006 12:33:55 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: wagglebee

Does anyone think that perhaps the American people have been PC-ed to their max? IMO, the American people are on a low simmer and about to come to a full boil. Liberals have pushed the envelope!


51 posted on 07/06/2006 12:35:15 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: El Gato
Although I've never had the opportunity of dressing a chicken (yet), I'm sure my preference would be a hatchet ;)
52 posted on 07/06/2006 12:35:33 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: wagglebee
He wuz just givin ole moe (Pigs be inseminating him), a good ole boy welcome to the land of the FREE not of the slaves!

This should be a required welcome at every satanic mosque everytime they start their prayers to satan!

53 posted on 07/06/2006 12:36:16 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (I'd rather be carrying a shotgun with Dick, than riding shotgun with a Kennedyl!)
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To: weegee
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54 posted on 07/06/2006 12:37:27 PM PDT by FearlessFreep (Excuse me. But are those your legs or are you riding a chicken?)
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To: sockmonkey
A friend of mine was very irritated the other night after going into the restroom of a fast food place where a person was using the sink to do his ablutions.

That kind of behavior won't irritate me.

After 9-11 I'm going to assume the guy is preparing himself for the next world. I'll run out, perhaps warning others as I go.

Then I'll call 9-11 and report a possible bomber.

55 posted on 07/06/2006 12:38:18 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (God has blessed Republicans with really stupid enemies.)
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To: Lunatic Fringe
I wonder what made this ignorant hick turn himself in.

Really, I would have taken that secret with me to my grave. What an idiot.

56 posted on 07/06/2006 12:38:33 PM PDT by processing please hold (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: cmsgop
Bowling For Muslims......

Yeah, but they threw a Qatar ball.

57 posted on 07/06/2006 12:39:31 PM PDT by P8riot ("You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone)
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To: wagglebee

Nothing would've been done had a similar event happened to a christian or jewish church.Fair& equal justice under the law?What a joke!


58 posted on 07/06/2006 12:42:30 PM PDT by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: INSENSITIVE GUY

I wonder if Maine has laws against desecrating a flag on private property (I mean burning someone ELSE's flag). This happened several times in recent years here in Houston (at least one was a military flag).

It is vandalism, no doubt, and indefensible. But desecration is a hate crime charge.

How many antiChristians who defaced churches on 06/06/2006 were charged with "desecration" over simple vandalism?


59 posted on 07/06/2006 12:46:53 PM PDT by weegee (Seasons greetings and happy holidays this June-July!)
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To: Skip Ripley
Not all Muslims want to kill us. I know there's parts of the Koran that tell them to make war on infidels, but does every Christian toe the line on every edict in the bible? There's a number of Muslims who live here, like it here and just want to practice thier religeon like anyone else. They don't want to blow things up, they don't want to cut off our heads and they don't want to murder your sister for driving herself to work and letting people see her ankles when she walks down the street.

You are correct - not every Muslim wants to kill us - THEMSELVES with their own hands - but far more than admit it at least tacitly approve of the murder of "infidels" by terrorists.

Your comparison to Christianity and the Bible is just wrong. The Bible is clearly something to be taken in context - including the context of the Old Testament being supplanted by the New Testament. We are to learn the lessons taught in the OT through the lense of the NT. And yes, we are suppose to "tow the line" given to us in the Bible. My Bible doesn't tell me to murder "infidels". It tells me to deal with unbelievers with Love that they may also learn of said love.

60 posted on 07/06/2006 12:47:16 PM PDT by TheBattman (Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of a Cancer on Society)
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