Protester steals Quran, thwarts burning

Amarillo Globe-News ^ | September 13, 2010 | Janelle Stecklein

[Ptarmigan]

A planned Quran burning Saturday in Amarillo was thwarted by a 23-year-old carrying a skateboard and wearing a T-shirt with "I'm in Repent Amarillo No Joke" scrawled by hand on the back.

Jacob Isom, 23, grabbed David Grisham's Quran when he became distracted while arguing with several residents at Sam Houston Park about the merits of burning the Islamic holy book.

"You're just trying to start Holy Wars," Isom said of Grisham after he gave the book to a religious leader from the Islamic Center of Amarillo.

[Ptarmigan]

Talk about the intolerant one. Resort to stealing someone's property. Last time I checked, burning your own item is freedom of speech as long as it is not stolen, which was not the case.

[Principled]

Wait til they find out the book’s been in the bottom of a dog pen for about three weeks. Smells like urine... he he he

[ReneeLynn]

Note to 23 year old idiot. There are people your age already fighting against the jihad(that’s holy war, fool). Put down the skateboard and get a job.

[KTM rider]

yet this same MTV generation would stand by and let people burn american flags

prepare for the flood of Islam, just like happened to Europe

[ansel12]

He is 23, I wonder if he has pulled his hitch in the military yet.

[Gene Eric]

>> “You’re just trying to start Holy Wars,” Isom said

Start? Maybe this punk should skateboard down at Ground Zero.

[TigerClaws]

This should be required viewing for American students:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTQ_Gg17k3g

Arrest the ‘protestor’ for theft.

[the invisib1e hand]

all the news that’s scripted?

[buccaneer81]

My son is a skateboarder and a conservative. He would have kicked this punk’s butt.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

“You’re just trying to start Holy Wars...”

Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, deep in his grave, was heard to chuckle.

[Dick Bachert]

A mosque near Ground Zero? We’ll THINK about it. BUT FIRST…

[Pox]

"You're just trying to start Holy Wars,"

Of course the little coward doesn't understand the fact that we are in a holy war already. The holy war we are in was begun by islamic extremists and if I'm not mistaken those same extremists have already admitted it and have continually called for more jihadis to join their holy war against the west.

Lefties and politically correct politicians on both sides are petrified to admit the truth and sniveling little cowards such as this cannot bring themselves to admit this, and they will do and say anything to avoid this reality.

[Cicero]

The perp, Jacob Isom.

[Steve Van Doorn]

The left is accusing someone of burning a book which will start a war.

Do you think the left sees the irony in their argument?

[Will88]

Protester steals Quran, thwarts burning

Under US law, he didn't thwart anything, but rather he committed petty theft.

[Will88]

I wonder which is the greater sin against Islam: Drawing Mohammed or burning a Koran?

[trumandogz]

If I saw someone attempting to burn the Bible or American flag, I think I would have to attempt to steal it before it could be set aflame.

So yes, I can see why someone would also want to prevent a Koran from being burned.

[KJC1]

This Isom idiot committed a crime in order to prevent a fellow American from exercising his rights, all for the sake of protecting a book espousing an ideology that seeks to take away the American way of life.

And it seems like the majority of comments at the link are in support of this. :::blood pressure shooting up:::

[Steve Van Doorn]

"If I saw someone attempting to burn the Bible or American flag, I think I would have to attempt to steal it before it could be set aflame."

yeah but would you think you are preventing a war?
that is the real issue here.

[RedStateRocker]

US Flags should be designed to cling to, envelope and be un extinguishable upon the person who burns them.