Woman says she received desecrated Quran through Amazon.com

San Diego Union Tribune ^ | 5/18/2005 | Gillian Flaccus

[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.

[JimSEA]

$$$$$KA-CHING$$$$$

Facinating how these things seem to come up at just the right time, wouldn't you say?

[Bullish]

Anyone else sick of these muslims yet?

[rodguy911]

Oh Sh!!!!t she go my old book, too bad honey get a better life.

[Tatze]

When is the next art show? I want to enter a "Holy Koran" submerged in a jar of urine! Maybe, just to be different from the previous similar piece of work, I'll take a crap in it too.

Hey, if its good enough for a crucifix, then its good enough for the book of the "religion of peace."

[af_vet_1981]

Basarudin, a graduate student in women's studies at UCLA,

The grad student did it ...

[Hank Rearden]

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.

Azza loada crap. Gimme that damn book; when I'm through with it she'll drop dead on the spot, terminally traumatized.

Stupid Moos.

[TheForceOfOne]

Send it to Newsweek, I think it belongs to one of their journalists.

[rodguy911]

The last used kooorran I bought had an autographed picture of bevis and butthead in it, it's priceless now.

[Comus]

I am, and I'll guarantee if there is another successful attack on the US by believers in the Holy Quran, she and the rest of the followers of the Religion of Peace, will be living in stump holes and only coming out at night, because they will be shot on sight.

[AmishDude]

Who the $@#%&#$$#% buys a used holy book?

[rodguy911]

Is that the Kooorannn logo?

[Tatze]

I love the idea. This isnt exactly it... Maybe this guy didnt have the coconuts to go through with it.

:eBay:Authentic Quran Koran from Guantanamo Bay!! *Newsweek*
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1469&item=5582563445&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

[TFFKAMM]

That's what stinks about this story above anything else. Had she been a devout Muslim, she would have purchased a NEW Quran from an Islamic dealer, of which many exist in the US, rather than risk buying a used Holy Book that might have been defiled by an unbeliever.

Check her CV on my post above -- she's an anti-Western academic agitator. Five bucks says this is yet another phony "hate crime," done to pick Amazon's deep pockets, and whip up sentiment against Racist AmeriKKKa among the Islamist/Leftist idiot hordes.

[Cementjungle]

Basarudin, who said her sister and mother were taunted for wearing headscarves after Sept. 11, wants more than a gift certificate and apology.

No kidding. Yep...another get rich quick scheme.

[rodguy911]

UCLA grad school--Talk about a mosluuumm bastion of liberalism mixed in with weirdo religious fanatics who don't have a clue who they are; unbelievable.

[Hildy]

Oh, some people have no sense of humor.

[NCjim]

Just think of the horror if she had received one with bacon grease on it!

[softwarecreator]

How in the hell did THIS make the news?

If it was a Bible, I couldn't get my neighbors to listen, yet this gets put in a newspaper?

[rodguy911]

She is kinda cute. When she gets out in the real world and discovers her degree is like the koran it's only good to wipe your ass, she can do my laundry.

[auburntiger]

If the book is used, the markings may have been made by the previuos owner after he converted.