This is a completely misleading, bogus headline by the TV station.
By saying why he was tasered, the newswriter purports to know why the LEOs used the taser, and that reason was that refused to “lift his hand off (a/the/his) Quran.
However, in the body copy, the same writer says that the complainant admits he had his hand under his shirt. This is at a time when the LEOs were responding to a report of a felony and were wholly justified in taking protective action as they did.
Now, class, please see if we agree on the following.
Under one’s shirt is not a place most people keep their Qurans.
Under one’s short is a place many felons keep handguns.
This perp admits, that despite police requests, he would not remove his hand from under his shirt.
Would a reasonable police officer assume that a person who was told to “show his hands,” and kept one hand under his shirt, was protecting his Quran or going for a gun?
So the question becomes, why did they even waste time tasering him? Why didn’t they just shoot his butt.
Not necessarily the same writer, most likely not in fact. Stories are written and then transmitted, usually electronically to the folks who arrange the paper, or the web page. The author doesn't get to write the headline. Even book authors sometimes have to "compromise" with the marketing people, on a title for their works.
I think the islamofacists overestimate American’s political correctness.
That is, they think we are so politically correct that we are stupid.