Posted on 09/19/2010 11:10:08 AM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
A burned copy of the Quran, Islam's holy text, was found in a trash can outside a San Francisco mosque last weekend, a spokeswoman for the Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Saturday.
The burned Quran was discovered Sunday in a trash can outside the Islamic Society of San Francisco, located at 20 Jones St., according to Zahra Billo, programs and outreach director of the Bay Area chapter of CAIR.
The Quran was found in a trash can had been taken out for collection the night before, Billo said.
"It was partially burned but you could still tell it was a Quran," she said.
The incident was reported to CAIR on Monday, and has since been reported to San Francisco police and the FBI's San Francisco office, she said.
San Francisco police spokesman Albie Esparza confirmed they are investigating the incident, and said no arrests have been made.
"This is so un-American, and so un-Bay Area-like," Billo said. "It's the last thing you'd expect here."
She said recent events, such as protests over the proposed Islamic community center near the World Trade Center site, and a plan, later scrapped, by a Florida pastor to burn copies of the Quran, have put many members of the Muslim community on edge.
"They think it's almost worse now than right after 9/11," Billo said.
She said CAIR is asking the Muslim community to be vigilant about other possible hate crimes, and for "interfaith communities and people of conscience to be supportive of our community." Copyright Bay City News
They burned themselves and threw it out in their trash.
Who sifts thru their trash can looking for a hate crime?
The generic problem isn’t one burned piece of BS, it is our inability to burn all of them.
Pardon me, but where is the law that says burning, defacing or throwing away any book, Quran, Bible or otherwise is a crime. Eat $h!t and bark at the moon you sons of pig f’n dogs.
The are has been against fundamentalist religions for decades.
Until the finally found one they like.
Hmm, I’m thinking this is an inside job.
Lol, tell us how you REALLY feel!!
Weird. I've never seen one article about a Holy Bible or an American flag being burned and the "incident" being reported to the FBI. That is really weird. I guess the muzzies aren't into that pesky First Amendment and Supreme Court "decisions".
If you replaced the words........... koran, islam with bible, Christianity............. this would not even be an issue. Get real, who would report a bible burning to the SF police or the FBI?
(PaMom waves hand in air!!!) Call on me!!! I know this answer!!!
Why the perpetually outraged looking for ‘something’ to be perpetually outraged (to the media) about.
Someone who stages it and wants to bring it to national attention. Nothing would surprise me with the left.
I am sure if it was a burned Bible the leftists would have zero problem with it.
We should all do the same!
Some one buys a koran. It is now their own personal property.
They read it and don’t like the message.
They dispose of it by burning their own personal property koran.
Then they throw what is left it into a public waste receptacle which just happens to be near a mosque.
So what is hateful about that!
Next thing you know the muzzlemen will be whining about barbequed pork rib bones from someone’s meal in the trash can!
By jove, I think you all got it!
Perhaps it is the will of Allah?
I live right across the bay; I’m half way tempted to toss a burned Bible outside a church in S.F. just to see how involved the police and FBI got involved.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.