'Palestinian Prisoner Destroyed Quran'

Ynet News ^ | June 19, 2005 | Raanan Ben-Zur

[West Coast Conservative]

A female Palestinian security prisoner in Ashkelon’s Shikma Prison tore up pages from a copy of the Quran and threw them toward the toilet during a routine search Sunday, the Israel Prison Service said.

The 22-year-old detainee from a village near Hebron is an Islamic Jihad member who was arrested three months ago in suspicion of hostile terror activity.

She resisted a routine search by a female guard, and then took out torn Quran pages from her skirt and hurled them toward the toilet.

The guard handed the torn Quran pages to the prison’s director, and Prison Service officials said she showed heightened sensitivity to the holy Islamic book.

“Security prisoners are permitted to keep Qurans, and the Prison Service provides them with the books, but tearing pages out of the book and throwing them in the bathroom is blasphemy and hinders the prisoners’ right to conduct religious rites,” a Prison Service official said.

The Palestinian prisoner was eventually transferred to the Hasharon Prison as planned.

A month ago Palestinian security prisoners detained in the Megiddo Prison claimed prison guards tore up pages from Quran copies during searches of their cells.

[Paul Atreides]

and then took out torn Quran pages from her skirt and hurled them toward the toilet.

Yet, the media will make the guard out to be the villain.

[ken21]

reward her with a chocolate bar every time she tears up a quran.

[SIDENET]

reward her with a chocolate bar every time she tears up a quran

I hadn't thought of it that way. Could that be considered "progress"?

[Migraine]

NO!!! AAARRRGH! What an insult to the toilet!!! Keep that garbage away from the sacred throne!!! Take to the streets!!! Kill!!! /sarcasm

[Random Nonsense]

ASHKELON - A female Palestinian security prisoner in Ashkelon’s Shikma Prison tore up pages from a copy of the Quran and threw them toward the toilet during a routine search Sunday, the Israel Prison Service said.

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However, a special investigative committee found the prisoners themselves had torn the Quran copies in an attempt to stir controversy.

According to the Prison Service, prisoner representatives apologized for the incident, saying it was a Hamas-affiliated minority that carried out the act.

Good.. now muslims around the world can start killing one another. And we, the infidels, can simply watch.

Ain't life grand.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

Security prisoners are permitted to keep Qurans, and the Prison Service provides them with the books,

Israel might wish to reconsider.

Ten years later the US will reconsider.

Another ten, the MSM will cease reporting about Koran desecrations.

AAAhhhhh.

2025!

No more Koran news.

Hope the "detainees" are still at Gitmo eating orange chicken!

[saleman]

That's where it belongs, next to the toilet. Leaves you squeaky clean!

[Calpernia]

What was a woman doing with the Quran? Women aren't allowed to touch the Quran.

[Sacajaweau]

Well, that's interesting!!

[veronica]

Hope the "detainees" are still at Gitmo eating orange chicken!

I think I read it's been replaced by beef Wellington.

[river rat]

Koran destroyed?
Why should we care?
Perhaps we should celebrate the prisoner's epiphany.

I find the constant reference to the Koran as the "Holy Koran" offensive and uncalled for by "infidels".....

Semper Fi

[Michael Goldsberry]

... tearing pages out of the book and throwing them in the bathroom is blasphemy...

Nah! That's just fun.

Worshiping a moon rock, now THAT'S blasphemy.

[SJackson]

As long as it's not Pork Wellington (yuk)

[avile]

was she using it as toilet paper?

[expatguy]

They are not allowed to touch it and menstrate at the same time.

[Paul Atreides]

Yet, the media would have everyone believe that evangelical Christians are the biggest threat to humanity.

[nothingnew]

It's really gotta suck to look after these vermin, just like it must suck for the soldiers at Gitmo and the Border Patrol down south...(My nephew's one of them in Arizona...)

FMCDH(BITS)

[expatguy]

Sorry I meant menstruate and not menstrate.

Anyway I think you guys get the picture.

[Calpernia]

Correct; but the Islamic law was, women shouldn't touch the quran because they could be unclean. They are also not allowed to read it. The Quran is suppose to be interpreted to them.