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Paperback copy of Koran found in college toilet
Jerusalem Post ^ | Oct. 3, 2006

Posted on 10/03/2006 12:38:41 PM PDT by Alouette

A lower Manhattan university is investigating how a paperback copy of the Quran from the campus library ended up in a public toilet, school officials said Tuesday.

The discovery at Pace University was among three separate incidents in the past two weeks involving vandalism with racial or religious overtones. In the other two, racial slurs were scrawled on a student's car parked at a satellite campus in Westchester County and on a bathroom wall at the downtown campus.

University President David A. Caputo said the incidents did not appear to be related. But he called them "deeply disturbing" and invited faculty and students to discuss them Tuesday afternoon at a meeting.

"One of our university's greatest strengths is its diversity," Caputo wrote in a letter describing the incidents. "However, when speech is hurtful towards a class of people or incites violence, we must condemn it and take measures to stop it."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: koran; koranjihad; quranjihad; toilet
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1 posted on 10/03/2006 12:38:42 PM PDT by Alouette
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2 posted on 10/03/2006 12:39:02 PM PDT by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 60-65)
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"deeply disturbing"

When the "Piss Christ" and the "Elephant Feces Madonna" came to town - I wonder if he felt the same way...

3 posted on 10/03/2006 12:40:01 PM PDT by 2banana
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To: Alouette

Sounds like good old fashioned free speech to me.


4 posted on 10/03/2006 12:40:22 PM PDT by zook (America going insane - "Do you read Sutter Caine?)
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To: Alouette
Lemme guess; the Muslims will be furious about this.

Is the NYT or NewsWeak in this byline somewhere?

5 posted on 10/03/2006 12:40:33 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Alouette

Shiite happens.


6 posted on 10/03/2006 12:40:49 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Offended By Islam.)
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To: Alouette
At least they didn't try and flush it.......
7 posted on 10/03/2006 12:40:51 PM PDT by b4its2late (I'm not insensitive, I just don't care.)
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To: Alouette
"One of our university's greatest strengths is its diversity,"

Tell that to Foley.....

8 posted on 10/03/2006 12:41:01 PM PDT by traditional1
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To: Alouette

Just Flush


9 posted on 10/03/2006 12:41:06 PM PDT by bmwcyle (Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
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To: Alouette

Other than a pig pen I think the toliet is the next best place for it!


10 posted on 10/03/2006 12:41:17 PM PDT by proudofthesouth (Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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To: Alouette

This is a big news story in Jerusalem...


11 posted on 10/03/2006 12:41:34 PM PDT by jd777
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Could it be that maybe, just maybe, someone forgot it?


12 posted on 10/03/2006 12:41:41 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln (For what cause would a liberal go to war? Revolutions don't count.)
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To: Alouette
Does this story really deserve to be in the newspaper?

So the library should find the perp and fine him for the book. Big whoop.

13 posted on 10/03/2006 12:41:42 PM PDT by what's up
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Destruction of school property. Anything else?


14 posted on 10/03/2006 12:41:46 PM PDT by onyx (We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
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To: Alouette
"However, when speech is hurtful towards a class of people or incites violence, we must condemn it and take measures to stop it."

Wonder if he's ever addressed this to the followers of the Religion of the Perpetually Pissed Off?

15 posted on 10/03/2006 12:41:59 PM PDT by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: zook
"Sir, I'm am in the smallest room of my house. Your letter is before me. Soon it will be behind me." A letter from Max Reeger (1873-1916) to a critic.

Works for me.

16 posted on 10/03/2006 12:42:00 PM PDT by IncPen (Bush Iraq Truth WMD http://freedomkeys.com/whyiraq.htm)
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To: Alouette
A lower Manhattan university is investigating how a paperback copy of the Quran from the campus library ended up in a public toilet, school officials said Tuesday.

Maybe it was DUmped there by a muslim hoping to smear others.

17 posted on 10/03/2006 12:42:13 PM PDT by Mark was here (How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
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To: Alouette

You can bet which of these acts will be the only one to get media attention...


18 posted on 10/03/2006 12:42:18 PM PDT by fireman43
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To: onyx

Let's hope a plane isn't hijacked to protest this incident.


19 posted on 10/03/2006 12:42:30 PM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: zook

I agree. I think he placed the book where it belongs.


20 posted on 10/03/2006 12:42:42 PM PDT by bfree (Liberalism-the yellow meat,)
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