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Italy: Koran toilet seat cover angers cleric

2007-10-27

(AKI) - The imam of the Lazio town of Latina's mosque, Sheikh Yusuf on Friday heckled interior minister Gi

uliano Amato as he visited Rome's mosque to present the new 'charter of values' for immigrants. There is a toilet seat cover on sale in local stores that features verses of the Koran. This is an insult to the Muslim faith that we must react to," he called out.

Amato however reassured Yusuf, saying: "I would like to tell our friends from Latina that we have been informed of this matter and are taking action because it is offensive."

"Developed in consultation with various religious and civil society representatives, it establishes the principles for the harmonious integration in Italian society of non-Catholic communities." The charter, which has symbolic rather than legal value, is aimed at immigrants belonging to Muslim and other faiths and highlights the "values and principles that make up Italian identity and which are rooted in the Italian Constitution."

Posted by:Fred

#10 Anonyimoose, is there a country, any country in the world, that doesn't give a damn about what the Muslims think???

Posted by: WolfDog 2007-10-27 18:21

#9 Make it look like a bad translation into Pakistani or Malaysian English, and you could probably make a profit, too, Zenster. ;-)

Posted by: trailing wife 2007-10-27 18:17

#8 I'm beginning to think that maybe we need a retooled edition of the Koran. Sort of like a cross between "Bored of the Rings" and Monty Python's Hungarian Phrasebook. Keep it just barely pious enough but insert all kinds of rude and suggestive allusions. This could make the cartoonifada look like a garden party.

Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-27 16:58

#7 Yet again, who the hell are these savages to order us to enforce their perverse sharia laws? Objectively, their self-appointed "prophet" was a womanizing fraud and a bandit, and their concocted deity is a figment of a sick mind. If they don't like those words, then they can dislike them back where their "prophet" devised his scam.

Posted by: McZoid 2007-10-27 14:43

#6 Still think we need a picture of a pig with a body of a Koran and the head of Mohammed followed by a bunch of little piggies made the same way with turbans and burqas and call it Mo & the Porkoranimals.

Do you think a stip of bacon would make a suitable book mark for the death-cult manual?

Posted by: AlanC 2007-10-27 12:19

#5 It would be quite an exercise in humor to create a website advertising Koranic TP, hosted in some country that doesn't give a damn what Muslims think.

Since such a product would most likely be prohibitively expensive, the stunt would be to make it look like you were selling it, and a LOT of it.

For example, have a minimum order of 10,000 rolls @ $5/each, with unspecified shipping charges. If you got any inquiries, have an auto-reply set up that "current backlog is delaying new orders, but we are greatly expanding production, so please provide an email so that we can notify you when we are taking new orders."

And of course, if you really wanted some fun, have a poorly translated version of the page in Arabic. With keywords like "Jihad, Osama, martyrdom, Zawahiri, Koran", etc.

The website itself would have to be totally impervious to hacker and DDoS attacks.

Contact 1-800 number for the Clinton campaign?

Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-10-27 10:04

#4 I am possessed by the urge to spell out passages from the koran using strips of bacon.

Posted by: Excalibur 2007-10-27 09:35

#3 OK, how about a toilet brush with Koran verses on it?

Posted by: gorb 2007-10-27 03:16

#2 How to put it without being indelicate? OK. I wouldn't want quotations from a Quran touching any parts of my body---especially that one.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2007-10-27 01:37

#1 Not bad, but toilet paper with "verses" from Koran would be nicer. The moment somebody has it on sale, I'll buy a subscription.;-)

Posted by: twobyfour 2007-10-27 00:45

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