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Mirecki hospitalized after beating (KU Relig. prof. who mocked religion)
Lawrence Journal World ^ | 12/05/05 | Ron Knox

Posted on 12/05/2005 8:13:08 PM PST by Will_Zurmacht

Mirecki hospitalized after beating

By Ron Knox, Eric Weslander (Contact)

Originally published 05:37 p.m., December 5, 2005 Updated 06:31 p.m., December 5, 2005

Douglas County sheriff’s deputies are investigating the reported beating of a Kansas University professor who gained recent notoriety for his Internet tirades against Christian fundamentalists.

Kansas University religious studies professor Paul Mirecki reported he was beaten by two men about 6:40 a.m. today on a roadside in rural Douglas County. In a series of interviews late this afternoon, Mirecki said the men who beat him were making references to the controversy that has propelled him into the headlines in recent weeks. Mirecki

Mirecki

“I didn’t know them, but I’m sure they knew me,” he said.

Mirecki said he was driving to breakfast when he noticed the men tailgating him in a pickup truck.

“I just pulled over hoping they would pass, and then they pulled up real close behind,” he said. “They got out, and I made the mistake of getting out.”

He said the men beat him about the upper body with their fists, and he said he thinks they struck him with a metal object. He was treated and released at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

“I’m mostly shaken up, and I got some bruises and sore spots,” he said.

Douglas County Sheriff’s Officials are classifying the case as an aggravated battery. They wouldn’t say exactly where the incident happened, citing the ongoing investigation

The sheriff’s department is looking for the suspects, described as two white males between ages 30 and 40, one wearing a red visor and wool gloves, and both wearing jeans. They were last seen in a large pickup truck.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 843-TIPS or the sheriff’s office at 841-0007.

Mirecki recently wrote online that he planned to teach intelligent design as mythology in an upcoming course. He wrote it would be a “nice slap” in the “big fat face” of fundamentalists.

The remarks caused an uproar, Mirecki apologized, and KU announced last week the class would be canceled.


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: ameritaliban; cawcaw; crevolist; fakehatecrimes; falsechristian; idgoons; ku; legbreakersforchrist; mirecki; paulmirecki; religionofpeace; talibornagain; unsaved
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very, very strange.... heard about this today on campus @ K State, people tried to tell me about the "evil Christians" ...

but I was more interested in our new football coach. I know I shouldn't sound cynical, but I'm so used to these sorts of things being..not quite what they appear.

anyhow, hope he's not seriously injured.

1 posted on 12/05/2005 8:13:10 PM PST by Will_Zurmacht
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To: Will_Zurmacht

I was in Missouri at the time ... really I was.


2 posted on 12/05/2005 8:15:05 PM PST by badpacifist (Schadenfreude)
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To: Will_Zurmacht

Who wants to take bets that this turns out to be phony?


3 posted on 12/05/2005 8:15:16 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Emmett McCarthy

No bet.


4 posted on 12/05/2005 8:16:23 PM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: Emmett McCarthy

What is the name that comes to mind ... Tawana? Something like that.


5 posted on 12/05/2005 8:16:39 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: Emmett McCarthy

Some are very good at the tales they tell.


6 posted on 12/05/2005 8:16:52 PM PST by MamaB (mom to an Angel)
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To: Emmett McCarthy

No bet. Leftists ALWAYS try to smear their detractors.


7 posted on 12/05/2005 8:16:52 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Emmett McCarthy

Or planned


8 posted on 12/05/2005 8:17:35 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: Will_Zurmacht

"anyhow, hope he's not seriously injured."

Me too, I certainly hope he didn't beat himself half to death or anything quasi-suicidal like that.


9 posted on 12/05/2005 8:18:02 PM PST by jocon307
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To: Emmett McCarthy

The Prof didn't get the license plate number of the perps? Hmmmmm....


10 posted on 12/05/2005 8:18:13 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (L'chaim!)
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To: Will_Zurmacht

There is no real confirmation of injuries in this piece. I am very skeptical. Why would people of the age group and description he gave be that interested in the controversy he prompted?

I keep remembering that woman activist who faked vandelism to her car on a college campus when I read this story.


11 posted on 12/05/2005 8:18:16 PM PST by Sue Bob
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To: Will_Zurmacht

"The sheriff’s department is looking for the suspects, described as two white males between ages 30 and 40, one wearing a red visor and wool gloves, and both wearing jeans. They were last seen in a large pickup truck."

If that was all they were wearing they shouldn't be too hard to find.


12 posted on 12/05/2005 8:18:42 PM PST by blue-duncan
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To: LibFreeOrDie

Wasn't there some jackass in NY state who called for killing American soldiers or something, then tried to spread a hoax that he had himself been killed? (Then fessed up too, the geek...)


13 posted on 12/05/2005 8:19:36 PM PST by Appalled but Not Surprised
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To: Emmett McCarthy

No bet from here, either, even if Fred Phelps does have an office in Kansas.


14 posted on 12/05/2005 8:19:56 PM PST by AZ_Cowboy ("Merry Christmas!")
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To: Emmett McCarthy
Who wants to take bets that this turns out to be phony?

No dice, a standard lefty trick for sympathy.

15 posted on 12/05/2005 8:19:59 PM PST by Navy Patriot
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To: Will_Zurmacht
The prof is to the left


16 posted on 12/05/2005 8:20:03 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Will_Zurmacht

I'll bet a dollar to a donut that his homo lover smacked him around.


17 posted on 12/05/2005 8:20:21 PM PST by ExpatGator (Progressivism: A polyp on the colon politic.)
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"The sheriff’s department is looking for the suspects, described as two white males between ages 30 and 40, one wearing a red visor and wool gloves, and both wearing jeans. They were last seen in a large pickup truck."

Heh. For Kansas, that's like the police blotter in Chicago saying, 'suspects were black males 20-30 years of age wearing baggy pants... Authorities request anyone seeing someone matching the description to call the police."

18 posted on 12/05/2005 8:20:32 PM PST by pierrem15
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To: MamaB; ladyjane

That's why making false reports is in the Crimes Code and the Eighth Commandment is in the Decalogue.


19 posted on 12/05/2005 8:20:35 PM PST by lightman (The Office of the Keys should be exercised as some ministry needs to be exorcised.)
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To: Will_Zurmacht

The guy with the red visor and wool gloves, did he have a bunch of reindeer with him ?


20 posted on 12/05/2005 8:20:40 PM PST by oldbrowser (The U.S. Senate is a quagmire.)
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