Posted on 07/10/2006 6:33:17 PM PDT by keat
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. The F-B-I will look into an online video that shows two men shooting a Quran with a military rifle and then leaving the bullet-riddled holy book at a Chattanooga mosque.
F-B-I agent Tim Burke said the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations asked the Justice Department to investigate the incident. He said no one from the Chattanooga Muslim community had complained.
Justice Department spokesman Eric Holland said the request would be reviewed carefully.
Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Islamic group, said the video may have been recorded in Chattanooga a year ago.
The video titled "kill the koran" was posted on MySpace-dot-com last month. It could still be seen on the Web site today.
A man on the Web site identifies himself as "mully88" and claims to live in Chattanooga. The author's profile lists as heroes (quote) "anybody that has killed a muslim or at least tried to kill a muslim." The site also contains slurs against Hispanics and blacks.
The video shows the man purchasing a Quran at a bookstore, going to a wooded area and shooting the book, then throwing it on the ground outside the door of the Chattanooga Islamic center.
If it had been a U.S. flag or Bible it would have been o.k. to do that.
Free speech you know.
However, since it pertains to TRoP, it is a whole different ballgame.
Looks more like a flag. Got a link to the pix you are referring to? Thanks.
They will probably try to bring the guy up on some kind of trumped up Hate Crime charge.
Maybe the FBI wants to hire them? I take my previous post back. These guys know the art:):)
Sounds like someone trying to make things more difficult for our forces in the Middle East. Certainly nothing that a conservative or patriot would do.
Either that or a drunk ahole.
Since this incident provides fodder for the terrorist propaganda machine and makes life more difficult for our foreign policy any serious person understands this is no laughing matter.
No, you can't shoot an M-16 that accurately drunk. Or anything else.
And if it were a Bible? Or a U.S. Flag?
Why the feebes would be providing free marksmenship training to the Muslims of course!
LOL!
Press Release Source: Council on American-Islamic Relations
CAIR: Video Shows Bullet-Riddled Quran Thrown at Tenn. Mosque
Monday July 10, 12:27 pm ET
CAIR Calls on DOJ to Probe Incident as Violation of Civil Rights
WASHINGTON, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the Justice Department to investigate an incident in Tennessee in which a bullet-riddled Quran was thrown at the entrance of a mosque as a possible violation of civil rights.
CAIR said the perpetrators of the incident videotaped their actions and then posted the video online. (The video was placed online June 17, 2006, but the actual incident may have taken place last summer.) The two men are first shown shooting a copy of the Quran, Islam's revealed text, with a "Colt M-16." (An M-16 is a fully-automatic military weapon that is not legal for personal use.) They then take the Quran to a mosque and throw it at the entrance while shouting what sounds like "Jesus rocks."
SEE: Kill the Koran http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=839295441 &n=2
The Imam, or prayer leader, of the Islamic Center of Chattanooga said the minister of a nearby church told him he saw the men videotaping the mosque, "ran them off" and called local police.
The author of the www.myspace.com/mully88 site identifies himself as "mully88" and claims to live in Chattanooga, Tenn. "White Power" theme music plays on the site and the author's profile lists as heroes "anybody that has killed a muslim or at least tried to kill a muslim." The site also contains slurs targeting Hispanics and African-Americans.
"By throwing the bullet-riddled Quran at the mosque, we believe the perpetrators went beyond the limits of free speech by taking part in an overt act of religious intimidation," said CAIR Legal Director Arsalan Iftikhar.
Iftikhar compared the men's actions to those who burn crosses on the lawns of African-Americans. In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that states can punish those who burn crosses with the intention to intimidate.
In addition, Iftikhar said the men's actions may have violated provisions of federal civil rights statutes. He cited Title 18, United States Code, Section 241, "Conspiracy Against Civil Rights," which makes it a crime to "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person of any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the United States."
On Friday, CAIR called on local and national law enforcement authorities to investigate vandalism at an Indiana mosque as a possible hate crime. The vandals shot holes in the copper dome of the mosque, smashed a number of windows and scratched "KKK" on the center's sign.
There have been a number of similar incidents targeting the American Muslim community in recent months.
Just this week, a man was charged for throwing a pig's head into a mosque in Maine during evening prayers. Media reports indicate that investigators in Ohio are looking into the possibility that an arson fire and explosion at a business owned by a family of Middle East heritage was a hate crime. Last month, a hate message attacking the Prophet Muhammad and claiming "Muslims Worship Satan" was left near an Arizona mosque. In April, shots were fired into a Maryland mosque.
CAIR, America's largest Muslim civil liberties group, has 32 offices, chapters and affiliates nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
NOTE: CAIR offers an e-mail list designed to be a journalist's window to the Muslim community. To subscribe to ISLAM-INFONET, go to: http://cair.biglist.com/islam-infonet/
CONTACT: Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726, E-Mail: ihooper@cair-net.org
Source: Council on American-Islamic Relations
It wasn't shooting back.
Video deleted by the user.
Perfect!
"The requested video has been deleted by the user."
Sigh, once again a nanosecond too late, and a megabyte short.
Yes that is the sad reality. Sophmoric pranks and cartoons will be met with murder and mayhem.
I didnt see him throw it at the mosque, I saw him throw it on the sidewalk. I guess free speech is only for the flag burners and the leftists who love them. Go Figure. I didnt see the left screaming for the free speech of the mutilated troops on the video though. Goes to show you where Our Free Speech ends up. Why isn't the FBI removing the mutilated soldiers video off the www?
It appears that the FBI has taken up sides, and not with the Americans!
"Why? What law was broken? "
This incident is obviously a hate crime. If they has shot a bible it would have been art.
I wish I could laugh, because that's funny.
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