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FBI Moves On Koran Shooters at request of CAIR

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Posted by Anginens Threreng8133 2006-07-11 01:34|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What bullshit.

Posted by Wheang Spavirong9833 2006-07-11 02:30|| 2006-07-11 02:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Shoulda used a bible. An NEA grant, gallery showing, and glowing review in the NYT Arts section would have been inevitable.

Posted by Kirk 2006-07-11 02:30|| 2006-07-11 02:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Only questionable bits I can see are their comments and tossing it in front of a mosque.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-07-11 06:46|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-07-11 06:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Does the FBI investigate flag burning? It's a no go from the start.
Then damn well get back to real work like trying to track the money trail of CAIR members now that they are avoiding the NYTs outing of their old methods.

Posted by Glogum Thaviling3232 2006-07-11 09:07|| 2006-07-11 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Pee works better on the Koran than bullets.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-07-11 09:14|| 2006-07-11 09:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Out of Charmin today, had to use Quran instead.

Posted by allanakhbar 2006-07-11 09:44|| 2006-07-11 09:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Shooting the Koran is a non-issue -- a man may pretty much do as he likes with his own property, so long as it doesn't risk harm to others. But leaving it at the mosque door contains an implied threat, which is how I would understand if a deliberately damaged Bible were left in front of my synagogue door... The lawyers will argue this is analogous to burning a cross on someone's front lawn.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-11 10:01|| 2006-07-11 10:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Hmmm... I don't get anything out of these symbolic acts. A complete waste of time, IMO. It all strikes me as juvenile... not to mention boring and repetitious.

What I think is bullshit is the FBI getting involved in this, wasting manpower on such idiocy. The local cops are FAR more likely to know who's involved - or to be able to find out.

The FBI should stick to productive efforts - such as trying to prevent another atrocity against Americans, not cater to an Islamic terrorist front like CAIR.

Posted by Wheang Spavirong9833 2006-07-11 10:13|| 2006-07-11 10:13|| Front Page Top

#9 If they had only urinated/defecated on it as well they could have just called it pop-art. I wish CAIR would crawl back under the rock from which it came and stay there.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-07-11 10:23|| 2006-07-11 10:23|| Front Page Top

#10 "Yeah, we did it. So what?"

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-07-11 10:39|| 2006-07-11 10:39|| Front Page Top

#11 umm . . . so what actual federal statue was violated that would lead to FBI envolvement?

Posted by spiffo 2006-07-11 10:41|| 2006-07-11 10:41|| Front Page Top

#12 statute, that is . . .

I mean the NY Times violated Article 18 of the Espionage Act, so what was violated here?

Posted by spiffo 2006-07-11 10:44|| 2006-07-11 10:44|| Front Page Top

#13 This is where we should make a stand. If they try to harm a single hair on our shooters head, we should overrun our own government. Fucking Islam is the enemy, Goddamnit ! The fucking FBI better wake up along with W and the donks.
WAKE UP !
This may be trapped, but I mean every word of it.

Posted by wxjames 2006-07-11 11:35|| 2006-07-11 11:35|| Front Page Top

#14 I suspect the FBI got involved over those asanine "hate crime" laws. That's the only Federal hook I can think of.

Now, I'm with you all on having the Feds looking into CAIR itself, vs. what was probably some teenage pranksters. Interesting the timing of this Koran shooting and the other story of the pig's head being rolled up on the mosque's doorstep.

Posted by BA 2006-07-11 12:07|| 2006-07-11 12:07|| Front Page Top

#15 1. Apply for NEA grant.
2. Shoot koran.
3. Become toast of NYC art world.
4. Be derivative, such as dissected koran in piss and formaldehyde.
5. Get rich and famous.

Posted by ed 2006-07-11 15:43|| 2006-07-11 15:43|| Front Page Top

#16 Melted Pig fat surely?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2006-07-11 15:57|| 2006-07-11 15:57|| Front Page Top

#17 How about a picture of a Koran with a slice of bacon for a bookmark? Now that would be Artful and pithy.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-07-11 17:40|| 2006-07-11 17:40|| Front Page Top

#18 C Sarge!

Might take a day or so, but on it.

Posted by 6 2006-07-11 18:29|| 2006-07-11 18:29|| Front Page Top

#19 Do up the picture as a litho, 6, four versions in different colour waves -- like whatisname's Cambell Soup Cans and Marilyn Monroe -- your name will live long after your head recovers from bodily separation.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-11 20:54|| 2006-07-11 20:54|| Front Page Top

#20 Andy Warhol, TW?

How about some multi-hued photos of beheaded jihadis? I'm sure it'd get a Fred P./RB Grant of some type, if the NEA didn't fund it.

Posted by BA 2006-07-11 21:13|| 2006-07-11 21:13|| Front Page Top

#21 Andy Warhol, yes, BA. I can never keep all those "artists" straight. I wouldn't do the jihadi thingy, though -- not artistic enough unless one made them generic and faceless, and what's the point of that? But perhaps a riff on the Iraqi playing cards that the troops took with them when they invaded? That could be fun...

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-11 21:34|| 2006-07-11 21:34|| Front Page Top

#22 TW, I always find your insight to be "funner than a barrel of monkeys." Continue on....

Posted by BA 2006-07-11 22:27|| 2006-07-11 22:27|| Front Page Top

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