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Another silly story of Qur'an abuse. Prison Service says female security prisoner goes on rampage during body search, tosses Quran pages toward toilet. From YNet News:
ASHKELON - A female Palestinian security prisoner in Ashkelon’s Shikma Prison tore up pages from a copy of the Quran and threw them toward the toilet during a routine search Sunday, the Israel Prison Service said.The 22-year-old detainee from a village near Hebron is an Islamic Jihad member who was arrested three months ago in suspicion of hostile terror activity.
She resisted a routine search by a female guard, and then took out torn Quran pages from her skirt and hurled them toward the toilet.
The guard handed the torn Quran pages to the prison’s director, and Prison Service officials said she showed heightened sensitivity to the holy Islamic book.
“Security prisoners are permitted to keep Qurans, and the Prison Service provides them with the books, but tearing pages out of the book and throwing them in the bathroom is blasphemy and hinders the prisoners’ right to conduct religious rites,” a Prison Service official said.
Sorry, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how tearing up a book could be construed as blasphemous in this day and age. I thought the world had given up these exaggerated notions of the sacred a long, long time ago. Just like a lot of other things Muslims are forcing back into our collective consciousness, these ideas have never left Islam. We must grapple with them, not simply accept them, as the prison official cited above has done.
Posted by Rebecca at June 21, 2005 4:22 PM
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Look, the only people who are truly upset about Koran desecration are people who WANT TO KILL US! The telephone is RINGINGGGGGG! Time to wake up people, and smell the jihad. Hello?! These people really, really do want to kill you and your family and are doing everything in their power to do so. This is not a movie. This is real. And we are concerned about their reverence for that thing that inspires them to want to kill you and your children?! How did we as a society become so moronically stupid? How is it we have become so blind as to not even recognize an enemy when they hold a gun to our heads in plain view? For what did our ancestors fight and die for more than a thousand years?
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at June 21, 2005 5:36 PM
Almost like she had a brush with reason
Posted by: KAOSKTRL at June 21, 2005 5:54 PM
Well, maybe she was just angry for having made to memorize that stupid pages for years, every day of her life, and all it got her was a life in prison. Maybe it's a positive story after all...
Posted by: cronopio at June 21, 2005 6:23 PM
Sad to say, these Israeli prison guards would not show the same "heightened sensitivity" towards Jewish sifrei kodesh (holy books). They love making a show of respecting other's beliefs, but has no respect for their own religion. Same can be said of the "christian secularists" in the West too :-(
at June 21, 2005 7:00 PM
Why on earth are people expected to give the "holy" koran or any other religious book any reverence. This is nonsense. By all means, there is no need for anyone to open a religious book and take a dump on it but for heavens sake (no pun intended) it is just a book so when somebody drops it on the floor, or tears a page, don't get all excited and start chopping heads off !!
Posted by: TooBad at June 22, 2005 12:41 AM
Well, I still see some things as sacred; albeit the Qur'an isn't one of them. Even so, I don't like throwing books around or tearing them, especially since they probably cost someone a bit of money.
Posted by: Kepha at June 22, 2005 9:53 AM
Tziona:
I can't say as I know as to how Israeli guards treat Jewish holy books. When I was going to Hebrew school we were taught that such books needed to be treated with respect, kissed if they were accidentally dropped, and when they were too worn out to be used anymore, accorded a "burial" (I don't know what this actually consisted of).
But I can tell you this much, we were never taught that for "unbelievers" to desecrate our books was an insult to the Jewish nation and cause for death threats and mayhem.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at June 22, 2005 11:58 AM
The only thing that is truly sacred is God Himself. While the bible is referred to as the 'Holy Bible' (and rightfully so), it is not the book itself that is considered 'holy'. It is it's message to us that is considered to be holy. Putting God's word into book format is merely the medium. The Word of God has been transposed into many translations and tongues, from books to MP3's to CD-ROMs. Nobody in the secular West seriously believes the idea that an MP3 (or CD-ROM) containing the Word of God in whole or in part is in and of itself a 'holy' object. A Bible used by a believer ought to contain personal notes and many a good pastor openly encourages this. After all, if your Bible gets beaten up then just simply get up and buy another one. However, in Islam the thinking is completely upside down. The medium is the message as it were. The Qu'ran becomes 'God' (false idolatry) and therefore ought not to be touched or handled by some infidel or apostate. We bend over backwards to these dolts, afraid to call their bluff. I mean think about it for a second. If your god can be that easily contaminated and/or desecrated, what kind of god do you have? A false one that is! We mindlessly buy into the idea of a 'holy' Qu'ran without ever considering the question "What does this book actually say?". A clear cut case of intellectual laziness and academic ignorance. Utterly contemptible PC rubbish this is, and I've have had enough.
Posted by: Johnny Cash at June 22, 2005 10:45 PM
Why they allow prisoners to have any materials at all is absurd.
In Israel or Gitmo.
Maybe this woman was trying to hide coded messages on these pages.
(Did the Israelis examine them closely? Pin-pricks on certain letters can be used to transmit secrets, or even thumbnail impresses at intervals on the sentences is a manner for sending ciphers...)
No paper but toilet paper!
(And only the rough soviet-style stuff, at that.)
Posted by: BigSleep at June 23, 2005 5:31 PM
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