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| Pakistan: Tension grips town over Koran burning | |
| 2008-07-17 | |
| Tension gripped a small town in Pakistan, after rumours that a Hindu child had burnt a copy of the Muslim holy book, the Koran. The incident took place in a remote mountainous area between Hyderabad and Karachi. Following the incident, people reportedly gathered in the town of Thano Ahmed Khan to pressure police to take action against the child. Later it was revealed that the child, who works in a grocery store, had mistakenly given a buyer some goods wrapped in a page from a textbook which had a Koranic verse on it. According to reports, the child was taken to a guesthouse, stripped and beaten up. Another report, denied by police, said that the boy was paraded naked in the area. The boy's father, Maharaj Jaman Das, who holds an important religious position in the community, offered an unconditional apology to the protesters and said his son did not know what was written on the paper. Police tried to verify the incident but no one in Thano Ahmed Khan could produce the paper which contained the Koranic verse.
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| #11 Kafirs aren't allowed. An abandoned mosque at Ayodya in India was destroyed in 1992. That incident still provokes rioting. |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-07-17 17:19 |
| #10 Great. We have a precedence set by the Guardians of Islam, the Saudis, for destroying mosques. Now, what is keeping us from expediting the obvious total destruction of all mosques? |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-07-17 16:51 |
| #9 When Bosnia became independent, the Saudis paid over $30,000,000 to demolish Ottoman era mosques; they rebuilt Wahabi approved structures in their place. |
| Posted by: Omilet Speaking for Boskone9441 2008-07-17 15:32 |
| #8 We need to organize a world burning Koran day. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-07-17 14:37 |
| #7 When they take over a mosque, the first thing they do is destroy any art or decor, then paint the bare walls white. They also do that in kosovo, with relative success, and did that in bosnia too. Apparently the locals don't/didn't like this at all, this goes against their own traditions, but, well, the wahabis have lots of money, and make inroads with the youths. Anyway, the wahabi are iconoclasts, cf. the buddhas destruction, or the vandalizing of kabul museum... and I think the arabs in general (because they hail from a mostly nomadic, desert culture, after having supressed their urbane & more sophisticated culture through islam????) don't care at all about preserving the past, just think of the ennemity between the turks and the saudis about the arabian peninsula turkish-era monuments which were destroyed by the saudis, not just for religious purpose, sometimes just to make way for a new mall... and that whole pre-islamic "age of ignorance" makes destroying the past of islamized/conquered civilizations/cultures mandatory. Islam is a giant eraser of civilizations, to be replaced by arab imperialism (arab language, arab names, arab customs, arab prophet worship, arab imitation,...). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-07-17 14:18 |
| #6 When they take over a mosque, the first thing they do is destroy any art or decor, then paint the bare walls white. How ironic that they are the first to lament the "tragedy of Andalusia" |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-07-17 14:09 |
| #5 His father is an important hindu religious guy? This is f*ckin sick, using the kid to get to this guy. A pox on all of you, a pox I say! |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-07-17 13:58 |
| #4 john frum: The Wahabbis strongly believe that no historical artifacts or icons should be preserved at all, especially relating to Mohammed. They oppose art in any form, generally, and especially decor in mosques. When they take over a mosque, the first thing they do is destroy any art or decor, then paint the bare walls white. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-07-17 13:42 |
| #3 Parading a naked boy down the street? Man, you can almost see the sweat forming on their foreheads... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-07-17 12:40 |
| #2 My koran soaks up oil under the car in the garage. They'd be pissed. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2008-07-17 12:26 |
| #1 Saudi authorities routinely confiscate Korans from pilgrims that they find objectionable (added artwork, publisher etc). They are dumped into bins at the airports in Mecca and Medina. Prseumably they are burnt. The Saudis also destroy historic mosques to make way for parking garages. They destroyed the graves of Mohammed's family and companions. There is not a peep about this from the folk who are quick to allege blasphemy at Guantanamo Bay |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-07-17 11:44 |