Well, that stupid priest first got the idea and then transmitted it all over, and now all haters are doing it everywhere. I said the same thing in one other post that this is the biggest threat now that all anti-islam segments will do this here and there..
They have found a burnt Quran in Chicago, and also one in lansing, MI:
**Burned Quran Found Outside Muslim Community Center In Chicago **
First Posted: 09-15-10 02:59 PM | Updated: 09-15-10 03:01 PM
A burned copy of Islam’s holy book was found in front of a Muslim center in Chicago last weekend.
The charred Quran was discovered outside of the Muslim Community Center on the city’s northwest side, just one day after the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Chicago Tribune reports](Chicago News - Chicago Tribune). That anniversary was also proclaimed “Burn a Quran Day” by a preacher in Florida.
Rev. Terry Jones ultimately didn’t go through with his plans to hold a mass burning of Qurans at his church in Gainesville, but it appears that someone in Chicago followed his lead.
CBS reports that two young people attending services at a mosque in the building found the book on the sidewalk. The mosque at the Center is one of the oldest in the city, says the Council on American-Islam Relations’ Chicago office.
The incident follows a similar one in East Lansing, Michigan on Saturday the 11th. A Quran was burned outside of an Islamic Center in that city; torn pages, some smeared with feces, were found outside the Center, according to The Detroit News.
In Chicago, Mohammed Kaiseruddin of the MCC’s board of directors described to the Tribune the community’s reaction to the incident:
“We feel like we’ve been victimized, that’s for sure,” Kaiseruddin said. “When we handle the Quran ourselves…we treat it with the utmost respect. We never put a copy of the Quran down on the floor.” “From childhood, we tell children this is a book of respect and once they’re finished reading they close the book and kiss it, and put it away,” he said.
2) LANSING incident:
FBI: East Lansing Quran burning might be a hate crime
Sarah Cwiek (2010-09-15)
DETROIT, MI (Michigan Radio) - The FBI is looking into the case of a burned Quran left at an East Lansing mosque last weekend.
FBI Special Agent Andrew Arena says the Agency is investigating the case as a possible hate crime under federal law.
But Arena says there’s still not enough information to about the perpetrators’ intent to make that determination. He says there’s sometimes a thin line between free speech and hate crimes.
“Burning an American flag or burning the Quran or burning anything on public property or private property that’s protected speech,” Arena says. “But when you do something at a religious institution with intent to intimidate that’s the question [here].”
Arena says both the FBI and East Lansing Police are still looking into the case. The East Lansing police have offered a $10,000 reward for information.
