Posted on 05/18/2005 5:13:52 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
LOS ANGELES - A Muslim woman who said she ordered a Quran through Amazon.com only to find profanity and religious slurs written on its cover page asked Wednesday for an apology and a full investigation by the online retailer.
Azza Basarudin, 30, said that she received the Quran by mail on May 5 after ordering it through a used books division of Amazon.com that allows customers to order directly from third-party sellers approved by the company.
When she opened the Quaran, Barasudin said she found profanity and the phrase "Death to all Muslims" written on the inside page in thick black marker. Basarudin, a graduate student in women's studies at UCLA, said she was overwhelmed by fear similiar to what she felt after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks when her sister and mother were targets of anti-Muslim slurs.
"I dropped the book because I didn't know what to do," she said at a news conference at the Islamic Center of Southern California. "I was paralyzed after 9/11 - I couldn't leave my house for a couple of weeks - and I realized that fear was coming back."
Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said his orginization wants a public apology and investigation from Amazon.com, as well as the firing of those responsible for mailing the desecrated book. He would also like Amazon.com to fund educational programs that foster religious tolerance.
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""I feel awfully bad about it. It's really a shame," Roberts said in a phone interview Wednesday."
You, sir, are a moron.
The Q'uran/Koran/Kuran/Khhurhawn/etc. is full of profanity and religious slurs by its very nature.
"Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said his organization wants a public apology and investigation from Amazon.com, as well as the firing of those responsible for mailing the desecrated book. He would also like Amazon.com to fund educational programs that foster religious tolerance."
MONEY AND PROPAGANDA, GIVE US MONEY AND FREE PROPAGANDA!
This is what it's all about, and I doubt that anyone but this woman is responsible for whatever was written.... I have a simple solution: Muslims, don't buy your holy books from infidel companies like Amazon....
"I thought that women were not allowed to touch 'The Profane Koran'".
That's the "Holy" Koran.
Maybe it was Newsweek's copy
This bitch needs to be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I hope Amazon doesn't fall for this crap.
"Bush did it."
C'mon buddy. You know it was Rove.
BULLSHIT
I order all my Korans through Amazon.com. They make great toilet paper.
This confirms it....LIAR!
I bet she found the desecrations right after she wrote them there.
Finger in the chili story.
Dropped it? Can't she be stoned to death for that?
ROFL!!!!
bump!
Caveat emptor.
"He would also like Amazon.com to fund educational programs that foster religious tolerance."
I think this is the finger in the chili, Congressman. However, don't sign me up for any of them programs.
It's money or petty, made-up excuses to go all jihad on us. Pretty soon everything that every Muslim receives through the US and from US sources, stores and businesses and in schools will just magically turn out to be desecrated, prompting cries of 'jihad' and an excuse, lame and manufactured, for the 5th column to strike out at the infidel. Surprise. Look how reasonable they've been over the false Newsweek story, like a powder keg just waiting to explode.
The AP wire is running with this one.
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