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Title: Bacon Strips Spelling Out 'Pig' Left Outside SC Islamic Center
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TPMMuckraker
URL Source: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsme ... th_carolina_islamic_center.php
Published: Oct 13, 2010
Author: TPMMuckraker
Post Date: 2010-10-13 12:28:29 by Happy Quanzaa
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Views: 37367
Comments: 54
Slices of bacon were laid down on a brink walkway to the Florence Islamic Center in Florence, S.C. on Sunday in a manner that spelled out "PIG CHOPS." The incident -- evidently aimed the center because of the Islamic dietary restrictions against pork -- is just the latest in a string of anti-Muslim episodes around the country. In fact this isn't the first time even this particular mosque has been hit -- earlier this year vandals broke windows in the facility, according to local news station ABC 15. A conflicting Associated Press report said the bacon slices were arranged to spell out "PIG CHUMP." The bacon slices were placed on the sidewalk between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Florence Police Major Carlos Raines told the AP. "There's absolutely nothing that identifies it as a mosque," Raines told the AP. "It's an insult, and I'm sure that's what it was intended for." Mushtaq Hussain, a member of the center, made the police complaint, telling officers he believed the incident was a hate crime because Muslims do not eat pork, according to SCNow.com. Raines said the department plans to increase patrols near the center. Abdul Ghani, a member of the board of the 30-family large Islamic center, told TPMMuckraker that members of the center weren't too worried about the incident, but he said it indicated that there was a need for non-Muslims to be educated about the beliefs of Muslims. "We didn't take it too serious," he said. "We wanted to let everybody know what happened. People don't know about our religion and they are just more influenced by the news." He said that the South Carolina neighborhood where the Islamic Center is located is fairly diverse. "We are here, mixed, between... American people and Pakistani and Arabs," Ghani said. "We are not too big a group of people, not too big a community, but we are mostly family people and small business people here." The Florence Islamic Center is currently raising money to build a Masjid in the town, according to their website. Several anti-Muslim incidents have been tied to the construction of new mosques. Police are investigating, according to local news station NewsChannel 15. TPMMuckraker left a message with a police spokesman, but the call was not immediately returned. A top Justice Department official recently visited Murfreesboro, Tenn. in an attempt to reassure Muslims who have been the victims of arson and vandalism in that area. The official, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, had noted in a previous speech that Muslim-Americans "continue to struggle for acceptance in many communities" and "have not yet realized the full promise of equal opportunity and equal justice."
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#2. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
"What am I supposed to do? Go on television and tell ten million people they have to be nice to each other? Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every
How fascinating, Murron. Where in the Bible does God or Jesus implore people to treat others like dirt?
It's written in the same place where I wanted to talk to you about the bible...
Well my dear, I am a firm believer in the Golden Rule, something actually embraced by Christians to an extremely deep degree. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That is a good principle. It allows me to see the value of people and to care about them even when I have fought them verbally or otherwise in the past. For example,you and I have had our spats in here, and at LP. But I like you and appreciate your good qualities as a woman and human being. It allows me not to waste time and energy on pointless and meaningless grudges. We always have the right to defend and disagree; but we should always remember and respect the humanity and dignity of others, regardless of anything else. And I believe that that is a notion central to at least the new Testament of the Bible.
Lets send em bacon strips, and be done with it.
And they can put these on their bleeding hearts! I wonder what the odds are that I could have someone charged with a 'hate crime', if they left food I hate on my doorstep?
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest"Mushtaq Hussain, a member of the center, made the police complaint, telling officers he believed the incident was a hate crime because Muslims do not eat pork"
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#4. To: Ferret Mike (#3)
How fascinating, Murron. Where in the Bible does God or Jesus implore people to treat others like dirt?
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#10. To: Badeye (#6)
Lets send em bacon strips, and be done with it.
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