well they said it was used... what'd she expect for a dollar???
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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In islam, it is not a sin to lie to a non-muslim. This woman is doing a favor to islam, in the eyes of allah, by desecrating her own koran and blaming it on infidels. ANything that makes infidels (i.e. Americans) look bad, is good to the jihad cause.
A new Koran story. The old snow ball is really rolling, isn't it?
And she's smart enough not to have ordered it from Amazon itself, where they could have refuted her claim.
Right... Hey, best check to see if she's found any fingers in her food too!
Mark
""Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said his organization wants a public apology and investigation from Amazon.com..."
If I hear that Amazon.com offered any apology whatsoever they will lose all my business with them.
Both of you got it all wrong; it was Hillary.
Personally, I can't think of anyone more likely to fake a "hate crime" than a foreign, Muslim, female, university graduate student in an identity-politics department. The female factor generates unquestioning acceptance of outrageous claims by the media, and all the other factors point up to institutions and subcultures that regularly distort or destroy truth in the pursuit of poitical aims.
I wish I could delightfully say that I was the one that stopped by the post office and wrote all the uglies on that atrocious book, but unfortunately, I can't. I'll console myself with buying one to wipe my butt on and flush down the toilet.
There is nothing holy about the Koran. It's Islam's Mein Kampf. It's a manual for terrorists.
I'm tired of this nonsense. I welcome a desecrated Kuran, anytime, anyplace.
Your statement makes it sound like muslim women are smarter than their American conterparts.
I feel so conflicted.
Is this lady related or does she know the lady from Nevada who found the finger in the beans at Wendy's?? Being a UCLA graduate, she probably is trying to cause problems. Are they going to investigate this alleged hate crime or are the police going to be politically correct and believe what she says because of what she is?? Seems that many people are trying to cash in on alleged situations.
" taunted for wearing headscarves after Sept. 11..."
Wait when the first female suicide bomber goes off. It is only then that we demand that they take off their burqas when in public. I always avoid being near muslim women in a crowd knowing that some have blown themselves up in public places in Israel.
"I'll bet she'll find a finger in there somewhere if she just keeps looking."
Exactly! Well said.
"1 Quran, 1 set of permanent markers, 1 subscription to Newsweek. that was her order."
ROFLMAO!!!!! good one!
"Personally, I can't think of anyone more likely to fake a "hate crime" than a foreign, Muslim, female..."
The sad part is that she may be an American citizen. We have let them in our country, you know.
well they said it was used... what'd she expect for a dollar???
She "dropped a Koran" ~ about all she's got left to do is yield herself up to the fellows down at the neighborhood mosque for vivisection!
There is a fairly substantial muslim population here in South Florida. ALMOST EVERY muslim woman I've encountered out in public appeared to be pregnant.
These brood-sows are either:
A. looking to conquer us by outbreeding us.
or
B. practicing "dry" suicide bombing runs.
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