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| Oz: Koran abused in Bible payback | |
| 2006-12-21 | |
The Islamic community was last night furious as the police continued their investigation into the "criminal damage" done to the Melbourne airport facility on Wednesday morning. Muslim spiritual leader Fehmi Naji El-Imam condemned the desecration as "ignorant and immature", fearing that it was in retaliation to an incident earlier this month where young boys at a Melbourne Islamic school burned and urinated on the Bible. "This kind of behaviour just puts you off," the Victorian Board of Imams' secretary told The Australian last night. "We want to eliminate all these kind of things from happening to any (holy book)." While police last night refused to outline or confirm the damage done to the prayer centre, Sheik Fehmi said he was told that the floor was urinated on and the Koran was torn up and someone had "wiped themselves" with it. Oh shit, literally, lol. DNA evidence. They must not watch CSI: Melbourne. He said while he was not expecting any violent retaliation from the Islamic community, the offenders should be "strongly punished by the law". "The courts should handle it once the person is caught," Sheik Fehmi said. A statement by the Victorian Board of Imams last night warned the Islamic and Christian community against an "us and them" mentality. "The prayer room is a place that must remain clean, not covered in urine and faeces. Faeces? Sheesh. "Enough is enough. No more us and them ... The striving of our forefathers was not for this; they would be really ashamed of us if they were to witness what we have sunk to. Uh oh, there goes my Boggle, again. "It is time we got together and used our similarities to move forward instead of our differences to go backwards." Police said the prayer hall was predominantly used by taxi drivers while waiting for customers at the airport. Whoa. An Extra Holy place. Gotta be in the top 10,000. A Melbourne airport spokesman refused to comment last night, except to say it was a police matter. | |
| Posted by:.com |
| #13 "A statement by the Victorian Board of Imams last night warned the Islamic and Christian community against an "us and them" mentality." One way to overcome the "us and them mentality" would be for the Victorian Board of Imams to sanction Melbourne's 2000 muslim taxi drivers to carry guide dogs & alcohol, as requested by the Victorian Taxi Association. Melbourne taxis are best avoided, in my experience. |
| Posted by: Whiskettes4Hilali 2006-12-21 20:12 |
| #12 Concur with: Thinemp; Cyber Sarge; Mike K. ; Tu ; et al... ;) Merry Christmas !!! |
| Posted by: Mark Z 2006-12-21 17:17 |
| #11 I'm with Mike. Heavy feeling it's staged. Only muzzies feel strongly enough about their book to desecrate it. Infidels don't give much of a hoot about "holy books". |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-12-21 15:59 |
| #10 I am taking bets that this turns out to be another ROP faithful trying to drum up sympathy. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-12-21 13:41 |
| #9 Well, now let's reflect for a moment. If I - or most other people in that big ol' happy family we call Western Civilization - was pis*ed off at a book, we'd tear it to shreds and leave it at that. Maybe drop-kick it into a garbage can or run over it a few times. But OTOH, only the Koran seems to ever get defcated or urinated upon on a regular basis, and almost always in a mosque or prayer hall that no non-muslim should ever be able to get near without being noticed. Look back at all the complaints of desecration of the Koran, and it always seems to involve #1 or #2. Reality check - the muzzies did it themselves and have already absolved themselves of blame so long as a couple of kaffirs get what's coming to them. After all, how dare they not overreact and go medieval on us when the muslims desecrated THEIR holy book? Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2006-12-21 12:01 |
| #8 He said while he was not expecting any violent retaliation from the Islamic community... Yeah. That never happens... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-12-21 11:52 |
| #7 "We want to eliminate all these kind of things from happening to any (holy book)." I'm sure Fehmi was real concerned about the the Bible desecration and condemed it with great vigor, right? |
| Posted by: Raj 2006-12-21 11:50 |
| #6 Another staged outrage? I'm so cynical now that I find it just as likely, if not moreso. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-12-21 11:23 |
| #5 According to "The Age" version, the koran was found at 5:30 am, & the "prayer" room is in Melrose Drive, near, but not in the Tullamarine terminal. Not somewhere the general public would go at that hour - mainly taxi drivers as stated. |
| Posted by: Whiskettes4Hilali 2006-12-21 11:21 |
| #4 "A statement by the Victorian Board of Imams last night warned the Islamic and Christian community against an "us and them" mentality." An "us and them" mentality permeates the koran. An "us and them" mentality is the foundation of their |
| Posted by: Mark Z 2006-12-21 11:06 |
| #3 So if somebody purchases their own koran, and does this to it, is this a crime? It's just a book, a piece of property. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2006-12-21 10:54 |
| #2 They must not watch CSI: Melbourne. Reminds me of what must be the worst show on TV anywhere: CSI Riyadh. Every damned episode, the Jews did it. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-12-21 10:54 |
| #1 Psst. It was me |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-12-21 10:39 |