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Lebanon: Muslim teens who desecrated statue of Mary required to learn Qur’an as punishment

Feb 12, 2018 3:57 pm By Robert Spencer

“Faced with the case, the judge cited a surah (a chapter in the Qurʾān), ‘The family of Imran’, in which Mary is defined as one of God’s purest creatures. She ruled that the two teenagers had to read, learn, and recite the verses in question.”

How grand. We can only hope that these two young men don’t start learning other sections of the Qur’an that pertain to Christians, such as the following:

Jesus is not the Son of God and belief in the Trinity is wrong: “O People of the Book! Do not exaggerate in your religion or say anything about Allah except the truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only a messenger of Allah, and his word which He conveyed to Mary, and a spirit from him. So believe in Allah and his messengers, and do not say “Three” –- Cease! It is better for you. Allah is only one Allah. Far be it from his transcendent majesty that he should have a son. His is all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. And Allah is sufficient as defender.” — Qur’an 4:171

And: “It is not befitting to Allah that he should beget a son. Glory be to him! When he determines a matter, he only says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.” — Qur’an 19:35

Jesus was not crucified: “And because of their saying: We killed the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah’s messenger, they did not kill him or crucify him, but it seemed to them as if they had. Those who disagree concerning it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except pursuit of a conjecture; they did not kill him for certain.” — Qur’an 4:157

Those who believe in the divinity of Christ are unbelievers: “They have certainly disbelieved who say that Allah is the Messiah, the son of Mary.” — Qur’an 5:17

Christians have forgotten part of the divine revelations they received: “From those, too, who call themselves Christians, we took a covenant, but they forgot a good part of the message that was sent them: so we estranged them, with enmity and hatred between one another, until the day of judgment. And soon will Allah show them what they have done.” — Qur’an 5:14

Those who believe that Jesus is God’s Son are accursed: “The Jews call Ezra a son of Allah, and the Christians call the Messiah the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; they simply imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah’s curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!” — Qur’an 9:30

Christians who do not accepted Muhammad and the Qur’an are the most vile of created beings: “Nor did those who were given the Scripture become divided until after there had come to them clear evidence. And they were not commanded anything except to worship Allah, be sincere to him in religion, inclining to truth, and to establish prayer and to give zakah. And that is the correct religion. Indeed, they who disbelieved among the People of the Book and the polytheists will be in the fire of Hell, abiding eternally therein. Those are the most vile of created beings.” — Qur’an 98:6

Muslims must fight against and subjugate Christians: “Fight those who do not believe in Allah or the last day, and do not forbid what has been forbidden by Allah and his messenger, and do not acknowledge the religion of truth, even if they are of the People of the Book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” — Qur’an 9:29

“Teenagers who desecrated a statue of Our Lady required to learn the Qurʾān as punishment,” Asia News, February 12, 2018 (thanks to C. Cantoni):

Beirut (AsiaNews/Agencies) – A Lebanese court has sentenced two teenagers to the study of the Qurʾān in order to learn what the sacred text says about Our Lady.

Judge Jocelyne Matta convicted two young Muslims, aged 17 and 18, for desecrating a statue of the Virgin in their village, Akkar district, northern Lebanon.

Ten days ago, the duo went inside a church in their predominantly Christian village, where they threw the statue to the ground, kiss it and carried out lewd acts. The two recorded their stunt, and posted it on WhatsApp.

Alerted, the police eventually took them into custody and brought them before a prosecutor, who turned them over to a magistrate.

Faced with the case, the judge cited a surah (a chapter in the Qurʾān), ‘The family of Imran’, in which Mary is defined as one of God’s purest creatures. She ruled that the two teenagers had to read, learn, and recite the verses in question.

The accused were later seen in the courthouse in Tripoli trying to learn the sacred passages in front of juvenile officers under close police watch. After purging their “sentence”, they expressed their remorse to the magistrate.

This is the first time that a Lebanese judge issued a “pedagogical” ruling rather than impose a prison sentence, taking advantage of article 111 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which authorises examining magistrates to replace a custodial sentence with a commensurate one.

The decision was welcomed in various political and religious circles. Prime Minister Saad Hariri described the ruling on twitter as “a summit in justice and teaching common concepts between Muslims and Christians”….

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  1. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 4:28 pm

    Interesting.

    I’m guessing that such a non punishment would not be reciprocated in the unlikely case that a Christian did something similar to a mosque or whatever….

    Hopefully they were at least made to apologize to the entire congregation of the church, and to pay reparations. Probably not though.

    This is islamic justice towards dhimmis.

    No thanks.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 12, 2018 at 4:36 pm

      Good point, LeftisruiningCanada.

      • mortimer says

        Feb 12, 2018 at 7:32 pm

        Yes, all very well to punish a mockery of the BVM…but how would an Islamic judge punish a PICTURE that MOCKED MOHAMMED?

        As we know, to ‘say something impermissible’ about Mohammed or about Islam requires a DEATH SENTENCE, because in spite of Islamic denials, Mohammed is actually a semi-divine person of the Islamic godhead and mocking him is a form of blasphemy.

        There is a whole chapter in the Koran bearing the name of ‘Maryam’, the only female in the Koran. The Mariology of the Koran is another topic which shows the split personality of Islam.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 12, 2018 at 8:44 pm

          No–this does not really show any split personality in Islam.

          It was obvious to Muhammed that Christians adored Mary, and so Muslims had to take her for Islam. That’s the only reason she is in the Qur’an.

        • Guy Forester says

          Feb 13, 2018 at 2:30 am

          Just ask the Charlie Hebdo guys how Islam deals with pictures of the “Prophet.” Oh wait, they are dead.

  2. gravenimage says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 4:35 pm

    Lebanon: Muslim teens who desecrated statue of Mary required to learn Qur’an as punishment
    ………………………….

    Oh, yeah–*that’ll work*.

    There is a whole Sura in the Qur’an on Maryam (Mary). But this is not the Mary of the Gospels. It includes such verses as this one: Qur’an 19:35-37:

    It is not befitting for Allah to take a son; exalted is He! When He decrees an affair, He only says to it, “Be,” and it is.

    [Jesus said], “And indeed, Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him. That is a straight path.”

    Then the factions differed [concerning Jesus] from among them, so woe to those who disbelieved…
    …

    This is condemning Christians for believing that Jesus is the Son of God.

    And what about the Sura the judge sepecifically sites–Sura 3, The Family of Imran? This is full of exhortations to Muslims not to take Christians as their friends,

    Further, it says that anyone who believes that Jesus is Lord is damned. Qur’an 3:61:

    Then whoever argues with you about it [Jesus not being the Son of God–GI] after this knowledge has come to you – say, “Come, let us call our sons and your sons, our women and your women, ourselves and yourselves, then supplicate earnestly together and invoke the curse of Allah upon the liars.”
    …

    “The liars” are Christians. The Chapter goes on and on, castigating Christians as liars and deliberate concealers of Islam, and damning them to eternal punishment.

    Add to this hatred of Christians the prohibition on images in Islam:

    ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Mas’ood said: I heard the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: The people who will be the most severely punished before Allaah on the Day of Resurrection will be the image makers. (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 5606; Muslim, 2109).

    And this specifically applies to images in Christian churches, as well:

    It was reported from ‘Aa’ishah Umm al-Mu’mineen that Umm Habeebah and Umm Salamah mentioned a church which they had seen in Ethiopia, in which there were images. They told the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) about it, and he said: “Those people, if there was a righteous man among them and he died, they would build a place of worship over his grave and put images in it. These will be the most evil of creation before Allaah on the Day of Resurrection.” (narrated by al-Bukhaari, 417; Muslim, 528)

    Under Islam, desecrating a statute of Mary is perfectly Halal–and no doubt this judge well knows this.

    • Hari Singh says

      Feb 13, 2018 at 5:22 am

      Yes, the box worshippers [Kaaba] take exception to other peoples idolatry. But what did Jesus say about that?
      ‘Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

    • Joe says

      Feb 13, 2018 at 7:53 am

      Yeah, the Jesus and Mary in Islam only have the same names as those in Christianity. They are represented so differently, that it could not be the same people.

      For example, Jesus in the Bible says to “Love on another as I have loved you”, and in Islam Jesus comes back to kill the Christian.

      As for Mary, Gabrielle greeted her as, “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.” The angel is saying that Mary is without sin. Yet, in Islam, Mary is far from the “New Eve”, and is only the mother of some prophet.

      So they use the same names, “Jesus and Mary”, but they certainly don’t see them as the same people as Christians. You are not going to find any devotions to the “Sacred Heart of Jesus” or “Immaculate Heart of Mary” in Islam, where Mohammed evangelizes by force which couldn’t be further the “Prince of Peace” (Jesus) and the “Queen of Peace” (Mary).

      • Dr Suraj Patel says

        Feb 14, 2018 at 2:08 am

        All these mulles still lives in the 7th century mindset and do not want to be improved or progressed…This is a very very intolerant community which can not live or mix with the other religions people…..Everybody is now fed up with this Islam and Muslims… Everyone wants the world to be freed from the Islam and Muslims for a better living place.. Islam is originated just on the basis of hate and violence…. How can anybody expect peace and harmony from this religion of peace and their terrorists and murderers followers…….Not a single moral values or good virtues can anybody get from such a religion of terrorist, plunderer, killers and rapists…

  3. Esther says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 4:45 pm

    the NON-SENTENCE is disgusting. How about a bunch of Christian teens rape and fondle
    a mock up of Fartima—–the daughter of the rapist of mecca?

    • mortimer says

      Feb 12, 2018 at 7:42 pm

      Fatima was murdered by Mohammed’s successor, Omar, for refusing to endorse the Caliphate of Abu Bakr.

      The Sunnite Abul Hasan says, ‘Ali Ibn al-Husayn al-Mas’udi who in his book ‘Isbaat al-Wasiyyah’ describes the events in detail and reports that: “They surrounded ‘Ali (as) and burned the door of his house and pulled him out against his will and pressed the leader of all women (Hadhrat Fatimah (sa)) between the door and the wall killing Mohsin (the male-child she was carrying in her womb for six months).”

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 12, 2018 at 9:08 pm

        Mortimer, I had thought that was the Shia account.

        In any case, more appalling Muslim savagery.

      • Dr Suraj Patel says

        Feb 14, 2018 at 2:20 am

        Islam is the worst religion of the murderer and terrorists….What can you expect from the Mohammed’s relatives…. Hate , Violence and murder….. Islam is spread forcefully by killing the innocent people of the other religions in the 7th century….Not a single person had voluntarily accepted the Islam …they were compelled to accept the Islam by imposing very severe cruelty and atrocities on them…..Nobody can get any peace, harmony, moral values or any good virtues from this rubbish outdated hatred ideology of the Islam

  4. Indiana Tom says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 7:10 pm

    Lebanon: Muslim teens who desecrated statue of Mary required to learn Qur’an as punishment
    Sort of like sentencing the town drunk who is guilty of public intoxication to drink a bottle of vodka.

  5. CogitoErgoSum says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 8:06 pm

    The performed lewd acts on the statue? Apparently, Muslims think that Christians believe God had sex with a woman in order to conceive Jesus. Muhammad seems to have been a very confused man who had his mind in the gutter. These boys need to be sentenced to reading the New Testament to learn about what Christians really believe instead of learning the lies in the Quran.

    And who is this guy named Ezra anyway?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 12, 2018 at 9:16 pm

      CogitoErgoSum, Muslims erroniously believe that Jews consider Ezra to be the Messiah.

      It doesn’t matter what Muslims get wrong–they will still murder over it.

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Feb 12, 2018 at 9:30 pm

        … or sexually molest a statue.

        I’ve only seen a couple episodes of the tv series “The Orville” but it reminds me of one where a member of the Orville’s crew committed a similar violation on a newly discovered planet. One of the planet’s inhabitants caught the act on video and posted it on the internet. The entire planet viewed the video and gave it a “like” or “dislike.” The “dislikes” prevailed and a planetwide apology tour was mandated as punishment. But I digress …….. an interesting episode though.

    • Kay says

      Feb 13, 2018 at 1:29 am

      I think they knew they were desecrating her image.
      Mohammedens love to destroy beauty.

  6. Nate says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 9:46 pm

    Don’t Muslims memorize the Quran as part of their educations? I mean, this isn’t punishment as much as it’s extra homework.

  7. Lydia Church says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 11:09 pm

    This flies in the face of all those fuzzy mushy wooshy ‘it’s all the same god’ garbage! NO! It’s NOT the same ‘god’! God does not contradict Himself! Either He has a Son, or He does not, and YES, He DOES, and the Son is God the Son, the Trinity is true, etc.! The only path that leads to God is the Gospel path in the Bible! No other religion is true and no other god is God. All religions contradict each other and these ‘chrislam’ and ‘interfaith’ folks are complete fools deceived by demons. So if you are in any of these camps; Jesus is the only way to heaven, all other religions lead to hell, so make a note of it! Islam is a lie from hell, a deception from the devil, a false and evil religion that will lead you to hell if you follow it. The same goes for that ‘one world religion’ that is coming upon the world. You cannot join with them if you are a Christian. And that is the nice version of the truth on it.

  8. infidel says

    Feb 13, 2018 at 1:35 am

    What the Fck would have happened if it were the other way around?? If it was two Christian youth that did something to Islam?? That we all know too well.

  9. Prakash Shah says

    Feb 13, 2018 at 6:50 am

    Muslims are a very intolerant community bred solely on the dangerous opiate of the religion Islam and the misleading and misguiding Quran writing…These community can not able to mix or integrate with any non Muslims people because of their religious preaching….according to to which all the other non Muslims are kafirs and these kafirs do not have any right to live… Now how can anybody expext a good virtues and moral values from such a religion who teaches only hate and violence… How can a religion of peace teach the world a lesson of peace whose origin is based on terrorism and murder-killing of innocent people in the name of Islam….. Everybody is now want the whole world to be free from the Islam and Muslims for a better and peaceful living place…

  10. MFritz says

    Feb 13, 2018 at 8:01 am

    So learning the “source” that lead to the desecration in the first place will be the punishment?

  11. Dr Suraj Patel says

    Feb 14, 2018 at 2:10 am

    Islam….. the religion of hate and violence has made this world very ungraceful and unpeaceful…

  12. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Feb 14, 2018 at 2:26 am

    yes, the function of the Quran is filter out filths of paganism like Godman and begotten son of God infused in christianity. But the Satan inspired them not accept the correction to amend.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Feb 14, 2018 at 3:59 pm

      thanks for confirming that you support the destruction of Christian property.

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