If 150 Bibles had been found in the canal, would the police have dived into the canal to rescue them and investigated the possibility of a hate crime? What do you think? But the London police know very well who has the power in contemporary Britain.
“Police dive into canal to rescue 150 Islamic books… only to find they were dumped there on purpose,” by Ramzy Alwakeel, Evening Standard, November 20, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Police dived into an east London canal to retrieve 150 Islamic books – only to discover they had been dumped there deliberately.
It is thought a “well meaning” believer had put the books in the Limehouse Cut after misunderstanding the rules for proper disposal of the Koran.
Traditionally, people who need to dispose of Islamic texts are expected to put them in water to disintegrate, or to burn them – they should not be simply thrown away.
But this does not, of course, eliminate the need to comply with fly-tipping legislation.
Salman Farsi, a spokesman for the nearby East London Mosque, told the Standard the person who dumped the books would be “admonished” for breaking the law – if they could be identified.
“You can put books in water and hope the text kind of fades away and disintegrates,” he explained, “or burn them and put the ashes in water.
“I think it’s someone from our community who’s basically taken the wrong guidance on how to dispose of these.
“I would just say it’s a harmless misunderstanding.
“Although there is an explanation as to why you would put 150 text books into a canal, there’s obviously environmental concerns – so we’re very grateful to the police for fishing them out and making contact with us.”
The books will now be disposed of by a local cemetery.
“If they’re put in an industrial grade incinerator I don’t think they’ll need to be dried out first,” Mr Farsi added.
He dismissed suggestions the books may have been dumped as some sort of hate crime.
“If someone wanted to make a statement they’d have set the whole pile alight in the middle of a park,” he reasoned.
“For someone to put it in water, I think they had the understanding you couldn’t just throw religious texts away.”
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said there was “no evidence of any hate crime”….

gravenimage says
Sharia UK: London police dive into canal to rescue Qur’ans
………………..
And London police are doing this rather than working to protect the English people from violent Jihad. Suicidal madness…
I just hope the poor well-meaning dhimmi officer doesn’t catch his death diving into a canal in the middle of November.
And yes–if these were Bibles, the perpetrator probably would just have been charged with littering…
TheBuffster says
They would have had to fish them out whether it was a hate crime or not. The canal is not a garbage dump. So I don’t think it was a “rescue” as the headline contends.
Raymond says
well than it should have been done by the proper authorities which is not the police in this case.
John spielman says
The Islamic books should’ve never have been dumped in the canal, they are HAZARDOUS WASTE. They should be shredded and used for bedding by swine
somehistory says
Agreed on the hazardous waste. Hazardous to everyone’s health the world over, dumped in the canals or not.
I think swine are too good to have to sleep on the filth of islam. Burn it all…rid the earth of the unholy writings from satan.
Wiser Monkeys says
Unbelievable. PC – literally – gone stark raving mad.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said there was “no evidence of any hate crime” …
Thought this was actually a spoof at first – 1 April?
http://wisermonkeys.uk/islam.html
Jaladhi says
This is ludicrous!! The Brits are living under the sharia law already even when they not lost their country to Muslims. Will they jump into the canal if somebody dumped copies of the Bible or Bhagvad Gita or Guru Granth Sahib . Intimidation by Muslims always works!!
TheBuffster says
They’d jump into the canal even if it were 150 dictionaries or copies of “Jokes for the John”. You don’t leave that many books in a public body of water to rot. It’s not healthy. Dumping stuff in a public area that is not a bona fide dump is against the law, and the stuff has to be removed.
Jaladhi says
But it seems police was more concerned with the charges of hate crime against somebody or Islamophobia than about cleaning up the canal!!
particolor says
And You can bet Your next pay that Muslims dumped them in there !! OR got some Poor Broke Halfwit Brits to do it as Scapegoats ! 🙁
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
What is “fly-tipping”? As explained in the hadith discussed in
http://www.yemenpost.net/8/Health/2.htm ,
the Prophet (pbuh) taught that if one wing of a fly falls into your drink, you should tip the fly to get its other wing into the drink too, to disinfect the filth from the fly’s first wing. Such fly-tipping is a Muhammad-approved way to ensure that your drink is always healthy. It is reassuring to learn that modern, multicultural Britain has fly-tipping legislation to ensure proper drink hygiene.
And speaking of filth in the drink, I sure hope these book-fishing policeman were not kafirs putting their filthy, najis hands on the Holy Quran.
TheBuffster says
I’m sure you’re joking,, Mark, but in case someone doesn’t know, fly-tipping is illegal dumping.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_dumping
Paul says
Did any of the korans drown? I wonder if any of the officers gave them
the kiss of life? After all, why should the insanity stop with diving into
the canal to retrieve them? They already kiss the backsides of muslims
who want them to “go to hell”.
Jay Boo says
Salman Farsi, a spokesman for the nearby East London Mosque forgot to mention the real reason the Islamic texts were dumped in the canal.
— To washed away all the blood stains
Diane Harvey says
Gee, Muslims tell us that their Quran is super holy. If true, I woulda thought that they woulda floated to the surface, crawled out, dried themselves, and opened to Suras 9:5 and 9:29.
somehistory says
Yeah, how come they didn’t sprout wings and fly off to mecca?
I do believe the whole thing about non moslims desecrating the unholiest of books is all for show…so they have *cause* to riot and burn and scream about how awful it is and people should die for having done so.
No Fear says
I hope no fish were killed by eating the pages.
Shane Von Russell says
But there’s this… http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3189696/How-police-stand-watch-boy-drown-6ft-water-did-STOP-bystanders-diving-save-investigate-disturbing-elf-n-safety-debacle-yet.html
RonaldB says
This was an extremely bizarre event, but explains why the police in Rotterham and other British sites of Muslim sex-grooming gangs actively covered up the crimes. The British police are simply another self-serving bureaucracy whose worst nightmare is to have to defend themselves to outsiders.
Mike says
The mosque spokesman is definitely more sane than the police on this one.
Crazy!
Waiting says
The powers ruling over us really are living in fear aren’t they?
Oh God, what a future awaits….
mortimer says
The British police are enforcing Sharia. Why?
Let’s be honest…the UK government is SCARE WITLESS that jihadists will murder British citizens overseas…isn’t that it?
We are all being held hostage by the jihadists. We never know where, when or why they will attack!
Should we start DEPROGRAMMING MUSLIMS?
TheBuffster says
Mortimer, I think everybody is overreacting to this one. The police would remove any pile of books of any kind that were dumped illegally into a public body of water. And they’d have to investigate to find out who did it, because such dumping is a violation of law.
Furthermore, it is reasonable to try to assess whether this was a crime indicating that someone – an individual or group – is starting to do revenge crimes against Muslims. It’s their duty to do so. For everyone. If they fall short, as they did in Rotherham, they’re in the wrong. If they do better for Muslims than they do for anyone else, they’re in the wrong – they should give all people the same quality of service, and it should be as excellent as their resources allow.
ECAW says
As someone who has spent time around canals, I’ve seen supermarket trolleys, mattresses and all sorts of rubbish retrieved from canals but always by Waterways or local council employees. The police usually confine their interest to dragging for bodies. So I think there probably is an element of respectful dhimmitude in this.
ECAW says
“Should we start DEPROGRAMMING MUSLIMS?”
We’re still waiting for the plan Mortimer.
Michael Warden says
Bullet in the back of the head.
Mahmoud says
Reality vs. Jihad Watch:
Reality: Police fish up illegally dumped waste in the canal to avoid contamination. That these were Qurans was irrelevant.
JW: Police dive into canal to resque Qurans.
Reality: Muslim spokesman insists it was not a hate-crime, but probably a misguided attempt by a muslim to get rid of some Qurans in an islamically correct way. He thanks the police for contacting him.
JW: London police is Sharia compliant, impliying creeping islamization of the UK.
Reality: Reporter asks the police if there is evidence of a hate-crime. Police says there is no evidence of that.
JW: Police investigates possible “hate-crime”.
Reality: Police would have acted in much the same manner if bibles were found.
JW: Implies police are obeying their muslim overlords.
gravenimage says
Mahmoud wrote:
Reality vs. Jihad Watch:
Reality: Police fish up illegally dumped waste in the canal to avoid contamination. That these were Qurans was irrelevant…
Reality: Police would have acted in much the same manner if bibles were found…
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What a load of crap. If this had been just any kind of refuse, it would have *been taken to the dump* in plastic trash bags. Moreover, police seldom *send in divers* to go after garbage–instead, it is just handled by waste management.
Instead, the police not only sent in divers, but then had a long talk with an Imam, and it was decided that the Qur’ans will be cremated at a cemetery under his auspices.
Would the Taqiyya-spewing Mahmoud have us believe that this is how British authorities deal with all random garbage in the streets? Idiocy…
mortimer says
gravenimage is correct. This is the police deciding whether a hate crime has occurred in order to prevent an attack on British people overseas by Muslims.
Islam is the only faith that gives its followers to murder apostates and blasphemers. No punishment is prescribed in Sharia law for the MURDERER of an apostate or a blasphemer.
Vigilantism is normative Islam, rather than an aberration. Let us never forget that. Let us remind all Muslims that we understand that SHARIA LAW PERMITS VIGILANTE MURDER to advance Islamic SUPREMACISM.
TheBuffster says
Well, that’s true, Mortimer – the police do have reason to be concerned about what Muslims might do happen if it were a non-Muslim who dumped the Korans.
However, I think that if the police were thinking thoroughly about possible implications and consequences, they would also want to check whether the dumping of the Korans was a hate crime heralding the beginning of a revenge spree against Muslims, which could mean even more social turmoil and death in the streets, and they’d want to track the perps down and nip them in the bud.
I would not assume with *certainty* that the police would not have taken the dumping of Bibles with equal concern. That, too, could be a hate crime against Christians and if anyone saw who did the dumping, it could be helpful in tracking down a Muslim who may be aiming to do worse harm to Christians in the future. I would hope the police would be enough on the ball to realize this. I do know, though, that people have reason to be skeptical of the courage of the UK police when it comes to Muslim hate crimes against non-Muslims.
But in this case, they did what needed to be done. And it’s what they should do if Bibles get dumped as well. These days, seeming desecration of religious books may be a harbinger of bigger things to come.
TheBuffster says
“… Muslims might do happen if it…”
Ignore the “happen”. I changed “what might happen” to “what Muslims might do”, but missed the “happen” in my delete.
I really, really want an edit button on JW comments.
Semeru says
JW/Robert Spencer: London police dive into canal to rescue Qur’ans
Reality: Police dived into an east London canal to retrieve 150 Islamic books.
Enlarge the image, to see that the books where just books and not korans as Spencer falsely claims
craven imagination: What a load of crap. If this had been just any kind of refuse, it would have *been taken to the dump* in plastic trash bags
Realty;It was not just any kind of refuse, it was books containing reference to islam.
If the books had been korans then it would have been highly blasphemous to take them in a plastic trash bag to a dump.
As the spokesman said, it could be a misunderstanding. Who ever dumped the books was attempting to follow the islamic procedure of disposing the koran, or dumping the books in the canal so as to avoid paying refuge disposal fees.
It is accepted to place the Quran in flowing water so that the ink is removed from the page. This will wipe away the words, and disintegrate the paper naturally. Some scholars recommend weighing down the book or papers (tying them to a heavy object like a stone) and casting them into a flowing river or sea. One should check into local regulations before following this method.
RonaldB says
“It is accepted to place the Quran in flowing water so that the ink is removed from the page. …”
It is also accepted that the laws of Dar al-Harab (country of unbelievers) can be ignored in favor of any sharia law. So, a Muslim would have no second thoughts about dumping trash into a public canal if he thought the dumping was sanctioned by an Islamic rule.
I do think the postings of Muslims like you are valuable here. It shows that in spite of your best efforts to put Muslims in a good light, once your postings are submitted to analysis, it shows exactly the type of entity we are dealing with.
Semeru says
The comment by R Spencer Is bullshit, He claims it was 150 korans that where rescued, when in fact it was only islamic books.
Now this is interesting
It should be noted that the ruling pertains only to the original, Arabic text of the Quran. Translations into other languages are not considered to be Allah’s words, but rather an interpretation of their meaning. Therefore it is not necessary to discard translations in the same way, unless they also contain the Arabic text.
Wellington says
Time to discard all of Islam, Semeru, which is the longest-lived and best disguised form of evil of all time.
Islam’s so-called prophet was a fraud, a psychopath, a narcissist and a pedophile.
Islam’s holy book, the Koran, is the most desultory, repetitive, stupid and disgusting religious work ever written (and I’ve read all 114 of its boring, risible and disturbing suras).
Islam’s religious law is a perfect recipe for the eradication of liberty. Islam sets up a Jim Crow system based on belief wherever it dominates. And Islam’s morality is a sham because it is a forced morality and only where the freedom not to be moral exists can true morality exist. You get none of this. Islam gets none of this.
God, how I despise Islam. Nothing, absolutely nothing, deserves to be despised more. Get lost, loser. You will almost certainly go to your grave a deeply confused human being. This is due to Islam, which is heinous and worthy of no respect.
jewdog says
The police did the dirty work? My sympathies to British taxpayers, or jizya payers I should say.
mortimer says
Whoever polluted the canal should be fined.
JawsV says
Look at the British dhimmis retrieving books that say to kill them. It truly is stark raving madness, as commented above.
Edgar Allen says
This story is actually worse than this. In the summer, police refused to go in to save a drowning boy “because of health and safety”. They even forbade others from going to save him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3189696/How-police-stand-watch-boy-drown-6ft-water-did-STOP-bystanders-diving-save-investigate-disturbing-elf-n-safety-debacle-yet.html
Westman says
Isn’t this just what we’ve seen? Trails of trash and debris left behind a steam of “refugees”; the lazy way to get rid of used items?
How long had the dumping of Qurans been going on here? Was this just a single dumping by a Mosque or bookstore? Or a dumping ground for a no-go neighborhood that was just noticed?
Is this typical of people who cover up the beauty of women and trash the environment? Imagine the augmentation of beauty, music, literature, and art pouring into Europe. As POTUS said we don’t have a religious test. Perhaps an eviromental hygiene test would be better.
worldcitizen1919 says
People are not perfect. We all make mistakes.
Muslims are human too just like us. Demonising everything Muslims say and do just because terrorism is in the limelight I think is a reflection of a poor attitude towards our fellow human being for the bottom line is that regardless of labels, humanity is all one species and one kind. To denigrate another human being is, in reality denigrating ourselves who are also humans.
I myself 1.6 billion Muslims as 1.6 billion fellow human beings not enemies or to be hated and despised because of some fanatics.
We should not allow the terrorists to divide us into an ‘us west vs them east’ camp for most Muslims are good and we should not be turning against all Muslims just because of the acts of a few fanatics.
mortimer says
worldcitizen misses the point. We already divide between the ideology and its unwitting followers.
If ‘worldcitizen’ had met Albert Speers or Adolf Eichmann or even Adolf Hitler (in one of his mellow moods), he would have found them cultured and quite charming, but their personalities are not the point. They were supremacists who believed Germans because of their faith in their superiority had the right to commit murder of Untermenschen.
Muslims may be personally charming people, but they are supremacists who believe Muslims because of their faith in their superiority have the right to commit murder of Kafirs.
After 15 years of the Nazi Party in May 1945, most Germans became aware of the mass murders caused by Nazism and repented.
After 1400 years of political Islam, most Muslims are unaware of the 270 million deaths caused by Islam and they are completely unrepentant.
Michael Copeland says
Muslims believe they have the right to murder kafirs because Islam INSTRUCTS that they have the right to murder kafirs. They are not permitted to believe any differently: that would be apostasy, to be punished by death (inflicted vigilante-style, by anyone).
Myxlplik says
Worldcitizen,
What would you think if Pol Pot invented a religion, which chronicled and enshrined his genocide and those who carried it out as the best generation and example for the faithful to follow in order to propagate the religion throughout the world?
We are dealing with a similar situation, only Pol Pot wasn’t as successful.
Westman says
Worldcitizen,
You’re making the assumption that the majority of Muslims would regard you as a brother. They assuredly do not and are taught from childhood that people of the book and infidels are inferior and the Ummah will be instrumental in killing all the Jews in the end times.
Try reading Islam’s own doctrine before making uninformed and patently false statements about Islam. You can prove your assumption by taking a Bible and giving it away in Saudi Arabia. Good luck.
TheBuffster says
Worldcitizen1919, People here do recognize that there are fundamentalist, letter-of-the-Sharia-law Muslims and non-political, non-dogmatic Muslims. We know Muslims are individuals with individual brains and a capacity to ignore the bad stuff in their religion. But we also know the Islamic texts and see that the most faithful practitioners are out to kill us and impose their religion on everyone by force.
So moist here at JihadWatch have read the Koran and the Sira and have learned and continue to learn all we can about this deadly enemy that has been killing people all over the world for the sake of jihad.
I’m perfectly civil to individual Muslims, and I don’t want any injustice to come to them. I know Muslims who are non-religious and very decent, and I expect that some have or will apostasize as time goes on.
But I also know that in these times, we can’t afford to trust without verifying, and that some Muslims who seem decent by our standards might not be, or may, out of peer pressure and weakness, someday turn against the people who trust them. Some will do that, some will *never* be willing to do that because they’re more loyal to their own benevolence and humanity than they are to their religion. But just try to read people’s minds before the fact.
Here are a couple of things I think you should read to get a bit of hard reality into your head. I’d be interested in knowing what you think:
This one is written by an Egyptian Muslim or former Muslim (not clear to me from my current information) about how rapidly hard-line Islam has spread throughout the Muslim world in recent years: http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-problem-with-moderate-muslims/
And here’s David Wood talking about what makes the difference between a jihdist Muslim and the non-violent Muslim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjvfaZIDLCg
TheBuffster says
Corrections:
moist = most
“Here are a couple of things I think you should read [should have been “read/listen to”] to get a bit of hard reality into your head. I’d be interested in knowing what you think:”
TheBuffster says
Also I said “Sira” wen I meant “Sunna”.
Infidave says
Worldcitizen,
“Imagine a bowl full of M&Ms with 10% of them poisoned.
Would you eat a handful?”
Aardvark says
Nice analogy, Infadave.
Best thing to do is throw them all out…
Mitch says
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said there was “no evidence of any hate crime”
The spokesman obviously didn’t read the evidence.
ECAW says
That.s very true. It should have been taken to the Crown Prosecution service for an adjudication.
Baucent says
What a load of rubbish. No complaint had be made to the Police either over the loss of the books or their dumping. Possibly some eagle eyed member of the public spotted them in the water, but to actually use Police resources to remove them without evidence of a crime, is ridiculous.
What next? The Police divers removing old car tires and beer bottles?
Would be an interesting experiment to dump a load of Christian textbooks in the same canal and see what the Police do. I suspect nothing.
William says
Pity the books weren’t thrown into a cesspool of shit…
Dhimmiwit says
British Waterways is normally the organisation responsible for maintaining the 2000 miles of Britain’s inland waterways, NOT the Met Police. Having said that, I imagine that the Government will have spent billions in tax payer’s £s training police on how to deal with stray Islamic holy books and will know that they must handle them with gloved hands so as not to defile them and to meekly treat them with the reverence that they fully deserve. Imagine the reaction if the British Waterways dirt dredger scooped them up…Embassies would burn.
Anyone believe this could be a fabricated hate crime gone wrong?
Tommo says
Police rescued discarded Qur’ans from a canal but failed to help a 17-year old boy they had been chasing who jumped into a canal and drowned. Police said they couldn’t go into the water due to Health & Safety reasons and watched for 30-minutes while the boy disappeared under the surface. The duplicity of the police makes me vomit.
Flip says
So SICK of this crap. We shouldn’t have our TIME even wasted with Islamic superstitions – never mind arguing about it and what it means. .
james collinsj says
Dhimmiwit says
Transcript of the phone conversation between the Police operator and the member of the public who reported it has been released –
Op: Hello, Metropolitan Police Bromley-by-Bow Division please state the nature of your emergency.
Pub: Ahhh…hi, erm, yes, I, I’d like to report a load of books floating in the canal down by …errm.. Limehouse Cut, someone’s dumped loads of them in there and..
Op: Fly tipping? Madame, are you aware that wasting police time is…
Pub: eermm, yes but..
Op: ..a very serious offence, you should already know this, do NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES contact the police in cases of fly tipping..
Pub: b…but..
Op: contact Bromley-by-Bow Council and Docklands water authority, the police have no authority in cases of fly tipping in the canal, have you any idea…
Pub: b…but the books, some of …..
Op: …how many murderers and rapists are..
Pub: s..some of the books
Op: ..out there? To divert even a tiny portion of our already seriously depleted and underfunded police force would be…
Pub: ..some of the books said ‘Holy Qur’an’ on the front!
Op: Madame, please stay exactly where you are and guard these books but do not touch them under any circumstances, Special Constables will be with you within minutes and we will be sending our most senior officers to the scene who will decide how best to handle this situation after they have had a meeting with community leaders and the Imam from the East London Mosque, thank you for your vigilance Madame.
Renee says
Why not be worried about the condition of the water.
Naturalherbes says
Just got back from London. I saw a lot of advertising for an upcoming Mickey Mouse television series (or maybe it was another ‘movie’ about “What if the Nazis had won WW2 what would it have been like to-day?” Don’t dare look up from your iPhones anyone.
E P Campbell says
Britain would have got millions of Muslims much earlier if Germany had won against the UK. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was a friend and guest of Adolf Hitler, who gave him a substantial stipend for several years, while he lived in Berlin, during WW2, as a fugitive from British justice. He managed to escape the British after having organised many murders and pogroms of Jew in Palestine. Himmler promised Haj Amin Al Husseini his own personal extermination camp in Palestine, if the Nazis captured the Middle East, after he kindly raised two Waffen SS divisions for the Fuhrer, The Handschar and Skanderbeg, in Yugoslavia and Albania. Al Husseini managed to persuade Adolf Hitler to send 40,000 Jewish children to Auschwitz, when Hitler offered to exile them abroad. The Allies behaved shamefully towards the Jews during WW2 causing millions of them to perish by refusing them asylum. Even turning back a ship full which landed in several Caribbean, American and Canadian ports. 288 of them fortunately obtained asylum in Britain, all but 1 survived (killed in an air raid). The St Louis. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005267
Dhimmi Rock n Roll says
Bizarre new rules of engagement emerging in the Dhimmilands that must be making the average Musim seethe with belief that the Koran’s teaching that ‘violence works. It really works’. Just look at those Dhimmis dance to our tune – and we don’t even like music.
Huck Folder says
I don’t think enough people are aware of UK’s NAMP;
the National Association of Moslem Police.
With over 2,000 members, including senior officers,
they not only have a pervasive influence,
they are privy to far reaching strategy.
Hell, they are in a position to MAKE strategy,
like denying EDL members police protection
from barbarian islamist savages, trained and fired up
by the likes of Andy ‘hypocrite’ Choudhary and IFTikhar Ahmed.
They took a solemn oath to the police force, the UK and the Queen
which is worthless, a charade and a facade; in their own words – taqiyya.
Their ONLY allegiance is to themselves, their umma, their book of shit,
their murderous mohammed and their blood-lusting ‘allah’.
Imagine it’s 1939, and there are over 2,000 fully paid up
card-carrying members of the Nazi Party in the UK Police Force
whose stated allegiance is to Hitler. And imagine some of them
in senior positions, even chaplains to Jews and Christians!
There is no way you could get away with writing these facts
in a work of fiction, without being laughed at as an idiot.
But here those facts are, in all their gory, and far from being scandalized,
the likes of Cameron fellate mohammed, turn logic on its head
and demand MORE, MORE, MORE!
And this:
http://hurryupharry.org/2010/01/21/national-association-of-muslim-police-links-to-khomeinist-front/
Dr. Divinity says
The police probably did the right thing here…There is enough pollution in the worlds
waters today without adding to it the writings of the book of hate. On the other hand we don’t need our air polluted by burning them either. What a quandary
Michael Jacobs says
“A spokesman for Scotland Yard said there was no evidence of any hate crime”. If had taken the minimal trouble of opening the books, they would have found plenty of evidence.
Sam says
Conclusion: Islam makes everybody STUPID.
Aardvark says
Salman Farsi, a spokesman for the nearby East London Mosque, told the Standard … “You can put books in water and hope the text kind of fades away and disintegrates,” he explained, “or burn them and put the ashes in water.
So why all the fuss when Pastor Terry Jones decided to dispose of his korans by burning the?
Aardvark says
Correction: “by burning them.”
PRCS says
So, who called the police?
Did that person witness the act?
What did that person tell them?
So, it was determined they were intentionally dumped.
Well, Duh!
Obviously they were intentionally dumped. Does anyone think they were accidentally dumped into the canal?
So, getting past the absurdity that this could have been an accidental act, from their conversation with the individual alerting the police to this situation (they did ask before jumping into the canal, right?) why did they initially think this was a “hate crime”?
How did the person making the report know these were Islamic books?
Shari says
I am also concerned with the dangerous concept of “Hate Crime” laws. So, now thoughts, emotions and speech come under governmental scrutiny and control. This is huge deprivation of freedom of expression, and it is expandable! Plus, I note the uneven application of such “hate crime” laws, depending onwp who the protected group is. Lady Justice has certainly lost her blindfold. If applicable, it would have been sufficient to use laws on vandalism, destruction of property or illegal dumping, as I am sure it would have been if Bibles had been dumped there. I am also surprised to see this use of police resources when you would think there was some environmental agency that would have been used instead.
RonaldB says
” If applicable, it would have been sufficient to use laws on vandalism, destruction of property or illegal dumping…”
Yes, I think you’re completely on target. What this incident shows, among other things, is that the immigrants being imported by the UK have no concept of public virtues or shared responsibility. To them, a canal is a public dumping site, the same viewpoint they had when they were in their country of origin.
Britain is importing not only Muslims committed to sharia, but aliens with completely different views of society, liberty, government, and individual responsibilities. These aliens vote, or will vote in a few years. They organize themselves by tribe and by country, and vote as a bloc. How will the UK maintain its identity when its political thrust is the same as can be found in Morocco, Afghanistan, Iraq, or any other run-of-the-mill Islamic, third-world country based on tribe and authoritarian governments?
Jay Boo says
Go to any liberal university and tell the students there are Korans burning at the local dump just before final exams then watch then race out the doors to put out the flames thereby forfeiting their chance to graduate.
jayell says
Since when has it been a police matter to remove books dumped in a canal? The police are complaining that they haven’t got enough resources anymore to invesigate domestic burglaries, which is supposed to be their job. Perhaps they’re not letting on that they suspected that these books contained some kind of criminal evidence. Well, THAT would be correct, wouldn’t it?
خَليفة says
I wonder what the publishing house does with the Qurans that come off the production line defective? I bet they get recycled – shredded and turned into other paper products like toilet paper – a Koran-roll so you can study Quran while taking care of business.
I wonder why no one complains of all the Qurans destroyed by Muslims when they are killing other Muslims of competing sects, with bombs or burning down homes.
One would think that if Allah didn’t want a Quran to get burnt he would prevent it. Obviously, Allah wills Qurans to burn, why then do Muslims get so bent? They want to establish special privilege for themselves, and NO other reason.
And here we see the once great Britons acting as slaves to Islamic dimmitude.
jayellj says
Aren’t they all defective anyway?
Ge says
They make you so low and irrational. Now they tell police to dive next time they will tell police to die or to dive. why don’t they get those korans by themselves? what on earth is going on that taking korans from the canal is the police new assignment.
george whyte says
Transcript of the phone conversation between the Police operator and the member of the public who reported it has been released –
Op: Hello, Metropolitan Police Bromley-by-Bow Division please state the nature of your emergency.
Pub: Ahhh…hi, erm, yes, I, I’d like to report…erm…I’ve found a load of books floating in the canal down by …errm.. Limehouse Cut, someone’s dumped loads of them in there and..
Op: Fly tipping? Madame, are you aware that wasting police time is…
Pub: eermm, yes but..
Op: ..a very serious offence, you should already know this, do NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES contact the police – in cases of fly tipping..
Pub: b…but..
Op: contact Bromley-by-Bow Council or Docklands water authority, the police have no authority in cases of fly tipping in the canal, have you any idea…
Pub: b…but the books, some of …..
Op: …how many murderers and rapists are..
Pub: s..some of the books
Op: ..out there? To divert even a tiny portion of our already seriously depleted and underfunded police Service would be…
Pub: ..some of the books said ‘Holy Qur’an’ on the front!
Op: Madame, please stay exactly where you are and guard these books but do not touch them under any circumstances, a Special Unit will be with you within minutes and we will be sending our most senior officers to the scene who will decide how best to handle this situation after they have liaised with community leaders and the Imam from the East London Mosque, thank you for your vigilance Madame.
Bluenose1690 says
The British police are the scum of the earth.
Jack McCall says
We are all on here mouthing off, we deserve all we get form the muzzies, why because we do nothing about them, words won’t hurt them !!!.
Angemon says
What a stupid thing to say.
nigel dixon says
Breaking news: Police in Saudi Arabia have just been seen jumping into a well to rescue a dumped bible (cue hysterical laughter)
richard courtemanche says
Poor police officers… they`re being converted.
peter says
they dont turn up to investorgate burglarys or jump in to rivers or lakes to save kids from drownding but the jump in to a canal to save books are you for real