Last week, this seminary was in the news because it declared cinema offensive to Islam and held a conference of bearded clerics at which terrorism was discussed. The cinema fatwa can be ignored because it is meaningless except to literalist interpreters of Islam and they do not go to the movies anyway.
Dutch lawmaker gets death threat over Koran film
Al Qaeda terrorist network has issued an order to kill a Dutch lawmaker who plans to release an anti-Koran film in March, Dutch paper De Telegraaf reported Wednesday.
In a recent message on a protected website alekhlaas.net, which has links with Al Qaeda, the terror group called on people to "slaughter" Dutch legislator Geert Wilders, the report said.
[Sounds like Shariah law to me] IN THE USA UPDATE:
UPDATE:
“Pace Student Who Dumped Korans in Toilet Gets Community Service”
Charges reduced from hate crime
Last Edited: Monday, 03 Mar 2008, 5:05 PM EST
Created: Monday, 03 Mar 2008, 5:05 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Stanislav Shmulevich, 24, pleaded guilty as part of a deal in which he must do 300 hours of community service. He has completed about 80 hours of the service at a hospital, his lawyer said.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “In both cases, a teacher found the books in a men’s room on the second floor of the school’s main building in lower Manhattan.
Muslims consider the Koran a sacred writing that contains the direct word of God, and desecrating it is seen as an offense against God.”