Disagreement at West Valley City mosque erupts into 100-person melee

Salt Lake Trib ^ | 8/16/08 | Lindsay Whitehurst

[pissant]

A disagreement over religious views at the Khadeeja Islamic Center in West Valley City Friday afternoon escalated into a 100-person melee, police said.

The fight started about 2:30 p.m. after the midday prayer, which routinely draws large crowds to the mosque, located at 1019 W. Parkway Ave., said West Valley City Police Lt. Bill Merritt.

Two different groups whose "religious views vary a little bit" attend the mosque, Merritt said, and sometimes get into verbal spats.

As the crowded parking lot emptied Friday, one such disagreement between a 26-year-old man and a juvenile turned violent when the man pulled out a box cutter, Merritt said. Another man drew a knife to defend the juvenile, starting the fight. Nearly100 people were pulled into the conflict before police broke up the fight, which resulted in a few minor wounds.

The three people who started fighting were arrested on suspicions of aggravated assault; the two men were booked into the Salt Lake County jail while the juvenile was taken to a juvenile detention center.

Attempts to reach the mosque for comment on Saturday were unsuccessful.

[pissant]

Jihadists in our midst. Deport the dirtballs.

[Clintonfatigued]

It’s revealing to see the Religion of Peace at work.

[AppyPappy]

It means “peace”, ya know.

[isrul]

Bring in the napalm :}

[isrul]

Nothing or no one so vile has ever soiled the shores of this nation.

[Rebelbase]

I was always curious about the head to toe praying in rows thing and wondered how they resolved it when when a guy in front didn’t wash his arse the day before prayer.

[BunnySlippers]

turned violent when the man pulled out a box cutter

Oh, a box cutter!

[pissant]

Or cuts a growly-egger, speckled fart in the guy behind him’s face.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Sunnis vs. Shiites?

[raybbr]

You can take the muslim out of the fight but you can’t take the fight out of the muslim.

[basil]

What’s with these guys and box cutters? I don’t think I’ve personally ever known anyone who “carried” a box cutter.

[brushcop]

What is it with these b*****ds and box-cutters? I guess easily and safely carried in the pocket yet deadly, as we so well know.

box-cutter=Muslim, right? Works for me.

[Leo58]

“religious views vary a little bit”

If they will pull a box cutter on someone with slight variations in religious beliefs, what will they do to someone who thinks their religion is a bunch of horse dung?

[LeGrande]

It means “peace”, ya know

Peace from submission you mean.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Shoulda just let the scum shank each other to death.

[pissant]

And wipe there butts with TP with their hero Osama’s picture on it.

[2nd amendment mama]

Neither have I. It’s definitely not something that “normal” people carry on them. Now, a .357 - definitely - that’s NORMAL....LOL

[savedbygrace]

These must be the moderate Muslims.

[Tennessee Nana]

Religion of Peace Pillow Fight

News at 10...

:)

[Tennessee Nana]

PING