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Breaking News! Another Quran in the Toilet!
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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-05-21 16:28|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Bah this is the campus I went to for JC...whats the world coming to.
Posted by Valentine 2005-05-21 16:55||   2005-05-21 16:55|| Front Page Top

#2 placed it on a bathroom shelf before contacting the police.

He contacted the police over a book in a toilet?
Posted by Charles 2005-05-21 16:55||   2005-05-21 16:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh and just as a perverse little thought, aint it an amazing coinkinkydinke that it was a muslim student that found the book first before anyone else?
Posted by Valentine 2005-05-21 16:58||   2005-05-21 16:58|| Front Page Top

#4 How times change... Yesterday it was Allan (pbuh), now it's Allan (sbuh).
Posted by twobyfour 2005-05-21 17:02||   2005-05-21 17:02|| Front Page Top

#5 This is an actual, if very minor, crime because the Quran in question belonged to the library and not to the toilet-terrorist who dunked it.

Good dhimmi that he is, though, Kane obscures this point in favor of a ludicrous emphasis on "hate-crimes", as though the desecration were a crime in and of itself (which it obviously is not).

Put another way, I would be really pissed if some protestor or performance-artist exercised his right of free expression (as defined by Moonbats) by pitching my copy of the Quran into the crapper.
I gave 5 bucks for it, after all, at the second-right-hand bookstore. If they want to destroy their own Quran, more power to them.

Would it be a "hate-crime" (as opposed to common-law vandalism) if I pitched the library's copy of Newsweek (Newsleak?) into the toilet?
After all, I really hate Newsweek, and will cheerfully admit it.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-05-21 17:03||   2005-05-21 17:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Ya know... If I thoght that flushing a Koran down the toilet would result in 15 or 20 dead Mulims who are crazy enought to kill one another other this, I would turn it into a business and make sure it gets done AND reported every 10 minutes.
Posted by badanov">badanov  2005-05-21 17:07|| http://www.rkka.org]">[http://www.rkka.org]  2005-05-21 17:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Seems that there is an idiot contest going on at Delta State. Who is more pathetic, the twit who did this, or Kufr-Kane and the asshats who literally want to make a federal case out of it?
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-05-21 17:08||   2005-05-21 17:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Just Moonbats salting the mine.

And yeah, the MSM, very bent complicit whores, will play it like a straight news story and hope it takes off.
Posted by .com 2005-05-21 17:09||   2005-05-21 17:09|| Front Page Top

#9 I wish Americans would cease reading holy text on the can. Let's just stick to crossword puzzles or People magazine. It could take someone a very long to to read the Koran in the john, very inconsiderate to others that have to go... bad.

Funny, how a student would discover a desecrated Koran so soon after the riots. It goes without saying that I believe the unidentified student to be moslem and someone versed in the activist methodology of Al Sharpton.
Posted by Super Hose 2005-05-21 17:12||   2005-05-21 17:12|| Front Page Top

#10 I donno about all this.. but I have an inkling to start buying up Korans and pork rinds and ...
Posted by BrerRabbit 2005-05-21 17:13||   2005-05-21 17:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Let it not be said that we are not fair-minded people here at Rantburg.

With the help of volunteers, Fred should immediately begin mass e-mailing the good folk of the ummah to solicit funds to replace the millions of Qurans recently desecrated by bacon-gobbling American infidels.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-05-21 17:21||   2005-05-21 17:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Badanov, 15 per day... 1.2 billion m-limbs...
80 million days. We need to come up with a better idea. ;-)
Posted by twobyfour 2005-05-21 17:23||   2005-05-21 17:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Hold on a sec!

Is this supposed to be real news?
Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-05-21 17:27|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2005-05-21 17:27|| Front Page Top

#14 it was me - I ate the Koran and passed it
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-05-21 17:29||   2005-05-21 17:29|| Front Page Top

#15 AC, 1 million desecrated per day = 80 days! Good thinking!
Posted by twobyfour 2005-05-21 17:29||   2005-05-21 17:29|| Front Page Top

#16 Yes, Fred F., 'fraid so.
South Park come to life; as heavy politics, no less.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-05-21 17:29||   2005-05-21 17:29|| Front Page Top

#17 Who's Fred F.?

And seriously, is it going to be Page 1 News from now on every time there's a report that someone might have desecrated a Koran?
Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-05-21 17:37|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2005-05-21 17:37|| Front Page Top

#18 Isn't there some group that goes around leaving Bibles in motel rooms? Maybe it's time to start promoting Islam, by leaving Korans in gas station restrooms...
Posted by Dave D. 2005-05-21 17:40||   2005-05-21 17:40|| Front Page Top

#19 Sorry 'bout that Phil. I was thinking about our fund-raising project.

I intended to put it on page 2 and made a minor error. It is relevant news because of the extraordinarily excessive reaction from the usual suspects, and the direct connection to the recent riots in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

It is coming here, in its own way, and that is newsworthy.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-05-21 17:43||   2005-05-21 17:43|| Front Page Top

#20 Finger-in-the-chili-bowl? I'd start with the dude who found it.
Posted by GK 2005-05-21 17:44||   2005-05-21 17:44|| Front Page Top

#21 "And seriously, is it going to be Page 1 News from now on every time there's a report that someone might have desecrated a Koran?"


If CAIR and the multi-cult and their media allies give high-profile coverage to these incidents, in an attempt to portray them as a rash of major hate-crimes; then, yes, that will definitely be something that should be reported and discussed here.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-05-21 17:50||   2005-05-21 17:50|| Front Page Top

#22 Someone must have read the sign:

"Please return books to their proper place."
Posted by CrazyFool 2005-05-21 17:53||   2005-05-21 17:53|| Front Page Top

#23 Please have mercy on the longsuffering janitors; find some other method of trash disposal.
Posted by James">James  2005-05-21 17:54|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]  2005-05-21 17:54|| Front Page Top

#24 what if its' highest best use is as fiber, Allan wills it so
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-05-21 17:56||   2005-05-21 17:56|| Front Page Top

#25 The problem is, they can literally create new incidents of this type on their own, at will. Korans are readily available, there are restrooms in every public library, and I don't think all of them really care about the Koran as much as they say they do... it's just another way to manipulate their less powerhungry brethren.
Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-05-21 17:56|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2005-05-21 17:56|| Front Page Top

#26 And they can just tell themselves, "It's not a real Koran, because it's translated into English" if all else fails.
Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-05-21 17:57|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2005-05-21 17:57|| Front Page Top

#27  "it's just another way to manipulate their less powerhungry brethren."

That's a bullseye.

In terms of behavior analysis, taking monstrously disproportionate offense over objectively trivial events is merely a strategy for establishing dominance over others by dictating the minutist aspects of their behavior.
We see this every day from drunks and gang members here in the States.

Power-seeking authoritarianism is the common-thread that runs through the whole Moonbat continuum, from the institutional media and academic fascists to communism, the religious left, and the Religion of Peace itself.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-05-21 18:05||   2005-05-21 18:05|| Front Page Top

#28 This is a great example of permormance art. It's created dialogue and provoked thought. I think the artist/flusher should quickly apply for a grant from the NEA.
Posted by macofromoc 2005-05-21 18:31||   2005-05-21 18:31|| Front Page Top

#29 AC: And by giving this example (and others) such disproportionate attention ourselves, we're enabling the behavior.

Here's what the top of Page 1 looks like as I write this:
Breaking News! Another Quran in the Toilet!2818:31 macofromoc
Hezbollah involved in Hariri hit? 112:56 Frank G


Evidence pops up that Hizbollah was involved in Hariri's assasination, but it's more important for us to discuss another possible Koran-dunking incident?
Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-05-21 18:59|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2005-05-21 18:59|| Front Page Top

#30 Phil, The fact that Hizboys may have been involved in Hariri hit is important, but it is but one episode in the WOT.
But... this is not about flushing koran (sbui). It is about behavior, mooselimbs' and moonbats' by proxy. In assymetrical type of warfare, ideas are sometimes as important as bullets. So far, jihadi mooselimbs seem to have an upper hand in manipulative tactics. If we find what makes them tick, we can use it to our advantage, at some point. Not only that, but we maybe able to deflect their attempts to manipulate and turn them around.
Posted by twobyfour 2005-05-21 19:18||   2005-05-21 19:18|| Front Page Top

#31 OK, then.

Well, consider this: this news item (along with all the similar ones) has three different functions:

* Propaganda within the west (to leftists and the undecided)

* Propaganda outside the west, to Joe Insurgent, regardless of his ideology

* Jamming. Noise. Chaff. Something to force out real news.

They're going to repeat this item until it eventually loses potential as chaff.
Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-05-21 19:24|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2005-05-21 19:24|| Front Page Top

#32 Phil, all attention is not the same.
Kufr-Kane made this news by giving it prominence in a widely read (20,000+) college newspaper. That fact, and his take on it, is worthy of our attention. We don't contribute to this by mocking and rebutting it and especially not by pointing out the obvious agenda behind an ostensible news story. It will not go away if we ignore it.
The Moonbats, as you point out, seek power. Unopposed, and unexposed, they will have it before the rest of us realize that we have lost the option of ignoring them.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-05-21 19:36||   2005-05-21 19:36|| Front Page Top

#33 If I'm not mistaken, that's PT Barnum in the pic the moderator inserted into the story. Most appropriate.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-05-21 19:37||   2005-05-21 19:37|| Front Page Top

#34 Anyone up for a good Koran burning party? I'll buy the gas and beer. Idaho is as good a place as any, maybe better than some. We could start a trend ...
Posted by Beau 2005-05-21 19:39||   2005-05-21 19:39|| Front Page Top

#35 There is a market! Hot Damn!

Koranic toilet paper.
Koranic shoe polish rags.
Koranic Kotex.

Money, money, money....

Posted by 3dc 2005-05-21 19:47||   2005-05-21 19:47|| Front Page Top

#36 The flushable reading material.
Posted by 3dc 2005-05-21 19:48||   2005-05-21 19:48|| Front Page Top

#37 Badanov, 15 per day... 1.2 billion m-limbs...
80 million days. We need to come up with a better idea. ;-)

That's if I did just one per day. If I did ten per hour 24 hours per day ( this is a business ) and sold just ten franchises, that would be about 7 million dead Muslims per year.

I can see it now:

"You Deserve a Break today, at Koran-a-crapathon."
Posted by badanov">badanov  2005-05-21 19:52|| http://www.rkka.org]">[http://www.rkka.org]  2005-05-21 19:52|| Front Page Top

#38 Damn it man, can't we end this crisis! How many toilets do you know of that will accept a book?

Let's end this lunacy before someone falls for it and cites it in a Newsweek column.
Posted by Captain America 2005-05-21 20:07||   2005-05-21 20:07|| Front Page Top

#39 Badanov, in our age of technology... how about a website, that has a PDF of koran (for the sake of tangibility), represented by an icon, plus a flash image of a toilet (/dev/null = bit bucket). You drag and drop, and hear the flushing sound. It is scalable, does not impact environment and clog pipes. A counter to provide real-time stats...

Posted by twobyfour 2005-05-21 20:26||   2005-05-21 20:26|| Front Page Top

#40 Priceless! Computer files are cheap, quickly disposed of, and environmentally friendly. Anybody got a Cray handy?
Posted by Tom 2005-05-21 21:11||   2005-05-21 21:11|| Front Page Top

#41 Seriously, shouldn't clogging a public toilet be some sort of federal crime? Democrats in the Senate should drop their futile anti-Bolton efforts and tackle this public plumbing outrage. Kennedy, Byrd, Kerry, Pelosi, and Clinton and all so full of crap that this should be a major issue for them.
Posted by Tom 2005-05-21 21:19||   2005-05-21 21:19|| Front Page Top

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