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Update: VA Quran Burnings Not a Hate Crime CAIR's Maryland and Virginia office
Council of on American Islamic Relations ^ | 7/3/2005 | Shama Farooq,

Posted on 07/07/2005 2:13:12 PM PDT by EBH

(CAIR-MD/VA) has been told by Muslim community leaders in Blacksburg, Va., that a recent incident involving burned Qurans left outside a local mosque was not bias-motivated. According to those leaders, the Qurans were burned accidentally...

(Excerpt) Read more at cair-net.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: blacksburg; burning; cair; disrespect; koran; korandesecration; muslimamericans; quaran

1 posted on 07/07/2005 2:13:13 PM PDT by EBH
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To: EBH

"According to those leaders, the Qurans were burned accidentally..."

This is monumental news-CAIR is willing to accept the truth.


2 posted on 07/07/2005 2:14:52 PM PDT by Spok
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To: EBH
Got one,still in the box, in the back of the Caddy from cair,hmm,I'm out of propane.

Pork ribs sound good.

3 posted on 07/07/2005 2:21:37 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
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To: Spok

How come burning a Quran is a hate crime but burning a bible or a US flag is free speech?


4 posted on 07/07/2005 2:22:11 PM PDT by Y2Bogus
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To: EBH

Some people in Blacksburg and at the Roanoke Times are going to be eating major crow


5 posted on 07/07/2005 2:22:21 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Y2Bogus
How come burning a Quran is a hate crime but burning a bible or a US flag is free speech?

I'd love to hear the answer to that too..
6 posted on 07/07/2005 2:23:58 PM PDT by ReeWalker (Life isn't fair...GET OVER IT!!!)
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To: Spok

I thought it was an interesting turn of events. Yes, it is surprising that they would agree is wasn't a hate crime.


7 posted on 07/07/2005 2:24:16 PM PDT by EBH (Never give-up, Never give-in, and Never Forget)
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To: Y2Bogus

"How come burning a Quran is a hate crime but burning a bible or a US flag is free speech?"

Or displaying a crucifix in a jar of urine? This is exactly the argument I've been flogging for months. We are living in a truly Orwellian world where two totally contradictory concepts can be simultaneously embraced. And WE are the supposed mind-numbed robots.


8 posted on 07/07/2005 2:35:15 PM PDT by Spok
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To: Y2Bogus
How come burning a Quran is a hate crime but burning a bible or a US flag is free speech?

Because the burning Qu'ran was found in the parking lot of a Mosque, IIRC.

9 posted on 07/07/2005 2:38:41 PM PDT by Chappaquiddick Crawdad ("E unum pluribus"? Perhaps you meant "ex uno plures", or is that "stultus sum"? hmmm...)
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To: EBH

The Quran should spontaneously combust by itself considering what's in it.


10 posted on 07/07/2005 2:43:50 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Get all the incumbents out of politics!)
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To: Y2Bogus
How come burning a Quran is a hate crime but burning a bible or a US flag is free speech?

Because you just hate to run out of toilet paper!

11 posted on 07/07/2005 2:45:59 PM PDT by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
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To: Spok

WAIT A SECOND!

If the Korans were burned on purpose, it would have been a CRIME???

Someone please explain to me how keeping a crucifix immersed in urine is not a hate crime, how burning the American flag is not a hate crime, but burning a Koran would be?


12 posted on 07/07/2005 2:55:28 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Spok
According to those leaders, the Qurans were burned accidentally...

BUMMER! I'd hope that every koran was burned intentionally.

13 posted on 07/07/2005 3:18:51 PM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: Y2Bogus

Yes,someone needs to tell the USA that we do not follow Sharia law, and we do not like this evil pushed off on us.
We have laws in this country. Islam is an evil that we are simply allowing to over take us, and we Americans have no other country to run to. Islam is evil as it can be, and there is nothing good about it. Please do not try to force this upon us.


14 posted on 07/07/2005 3:43:35 PM PDT by tessalu
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None of us voted for this Islamic crap in this country.
It is being pushed off on us.


15 posted on 07/07/2005 3:45:24 PM PDT by tessalu
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To: EBH

Smear a Quran (Koran, whatever) with Spam (the potted meat product), photogrpah it, and send it out via email "to everyone in your address book".

It takes SPAM to a new level.


16 posted on 07/07/2005 3:49:08 PM PDT by AbeKrieger (Islam is the virus that causes al-Qaeda.)
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