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FBI to probe Quran abuse on video
AP via KnoxNews ^ | 7-11-06 | Statf

Posted on 07/11/2006 1:21:10 PM PDT by veronica

CHATTANOOGA - The FBI will look into an online video that shows two men shooting a Quran with a military rifle and then leaving the bullet-riddled holy book at a Chattanooga mosque, an agent said Monday.

FBI agent Tim Burke said the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations asked the Justice Department to investigate the incident. He said no one from the local Muslim community had complained.

Justice Department spokesman Eric Holland said the request would be reviewed carefully.

Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Islamic group, said the video may have been recorded in Chattanooga a year ago.

The video titled "kill the koran" was posted on MySpace.com last month, Hooper said. It could still be seen on the Web site Monday.

Abdul Raheem Kabah, who Hooper identified as the imam, or prayer leader, of the Chattanooga mosque, did not return telephone messages Monday seeking comment.

A man on the Web site identifies himself as "mully88" and claims to live in Chattanooga. The author's profile lists as heroes "anybody that has killed a muslim or at least tried to kill a muslim." The site also contains slurs against Hispanics and blacks.


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Your tax dollars at work...
1 posted on 07/11/2006 1:21:12 PM PDT by veronica
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This smells of Tawana Brawley.


2 posted on 07/11/2006 1:22:50 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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3 posted on 07/11/2006 1:22:52 PM PDT by ASA Vet (3.03)
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>>CHATTANOOGA - The FBI will look into an online video that shows two men shooting a Quran with a military rifle and then leaving the bullet-riddled holy book at a Chattanooga mosque, an agent said Monday.<<


Its not clear that is illegal. Classless, but not illegal.


4 posted on 07/11/2006 1:23:03 PM PDT by gondramB (The options on the table have been there from the beginning. Withdraw and fail or commit and succeed)
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To: veronica

Nobody has complained but we're from the government and we're here to help.


5 posted on 07/11/2006 1:23:49 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I'm trying to think but nothing happens)
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To: veronica

Are you F'n kidding me? "Koran Abuse"?????????

This has got to be a joke.


6 posted on 07/11/2006 1:23:50 PM PDT by dinoparty
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To: veronica

Oh, the horror.....Did they behead it and mutilate it, too?


7 posted on 07/11/2006 1:23:55 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Never trust Democrats with national security.)
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To: veronica
If a person can burn an American Flag I see no reason why they can't fire up a Quuran, Qu'ran, Koran (however you want to spell it).

Don't worry, Sharia will be here soon enough.
8 posted on 07/11/2006 1:24:07 PM PDT by PeteB570 (Sharia. Coming to a town near you.)
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Good Grief! You FBI boys need to get your asses down to Houston airports and look for guys with hollowed shoes and a clock with 9-volt battery.


9 posted on 07/11/2006 1:24:34 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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We're fighting an enemy that wants us all dead and all the FBI has to do is make sure no Muslims' feelings are hurt. What the f#$% is wrong with this picture?


10 posted on 07/11/2006 1:24:35 PM PDT by pabianice
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LOTS.


11 posted on 07/11/2006 1:24:57 PM PDT by veronica ("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
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Hmmmm... maybe this will just sit in some agent's in-box for a year or two.....


12 posted on 07/11/2006 1:25:37 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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This makes me so angry! Abuse of a d@mn book? Has the FBI nothing to do?
13 posted on 07/11/2006 1:25:47 PM PDT by CremeSaver
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As best I can figure it, shooting a Quran (or any other religious book, I presume) is now going to be considered a Federal hate crime?

I wonder how even handedly this will be enforced.


14 posted on 07/11/2006 1:26:14 PM PDT by Captain Rhino ( Dollars spent in India help a friend; dollars spent in China arm an enemy.)
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Why is the FBI investigating something that is not even illegal? "Koran abuse?" Jiminey. Makes me want to go buy one and show them what "Koran abuse" REALLY is.


15 posted on 07/11/2006 1:26:15 PM PDT by L98Fiero (I'm worth a million in prizes.)
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Let me get this straight:

Submerge a Christian symbol in urine and you get a NEA grant plus a forum in which to display it.

Put a slug in a Koran and you get an FBI investigation.

Just like Animal Farm, the pigs are more equal than the rest of us.

16 posted on 07/11/2006 1:27:05 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
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To: veronica

FBI doesn't have anything better to do?


17 posted on 07/11/2006 1:27:22 PM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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Something tells me there will be no investigations when there is "Bible Abuse".


18 posted on 07/11/2006 1:27:42 PM PDT by dinoparty
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"shooting a Quran with a military rifle "

Military rifle...it must have been one of those deadly semi automatic machine gun assault fully automatic scary black class three oozi cop killer shooting airline killing military rifles.


19 posted on 07/11/2006 1:29:11 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (Loose lips sink ships and the NYT is the Bermuda triangle.)
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Apparently all of the criminals are now off the street. Do you think they'd get this upset over damage to a Bible?


20 posted on 07/11/2006 1:29:48 PM PDT by MissEdie
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