people threw pig blood at a nearby islamic prayer center

[momtofuss]

dont want to start contrav. just thought that was disgusting I have to correct what I said in title, it was the prayer rugs not on the center, sorry I misquoted the story

FBI PROBES BLOOD-SMEARED MUSLIM PRAYER RUGS AT UCLA
Gina Keating, Reuters, 4/25/03

LOS ANGELES - The FBI opened a hate crime investigation on Friday into an
incident at the University of California Los Angeles Medical Center
interdenominational chapel in which a liquid thought to be pig blood was
used to defile Muslim prayer rugs.

The red-stained rugs were found on Saturday by the family of a Muslim
patient who had stopped by the chapel to perform afternoon prayers, said
Rev. Sandra Yarlott, head of UCLA Medical Center's spiritual care center.

"To have the mats that you pray on have pig blood dumped on them is
probably one of the most defiling things you could use to destroy those
prayer mats," Yarlott said. UCLA officials strongly condemned the incident
as a "hateful act."

Muslim Public Affairs Council executive director Salam al Marayati
commended the law enforcement community for quickly classifying the
incident as a hate crime, and said the response "shows the greatness of
America..."

The incident at the chapel, first reported on Tuesday in UCLA's student
newspaper, has had an "empowering...uniting" effect on the community that
Yarlott described as "humbling."

The spiritual care center was flooded with e-mails and phone calls from
people of all faiths wanting to know how they could donate money to replace
the rugs, she said...

[Gia]

I agree~It was VERY mean, nasty and disgusting {{momtofuss}}

[Kelsey1224]

That is horrible!

[momfromTN]

I do not agree with Islam, as I feel it teaches hate, because the Koran teaches that the infidels are to be killed, the infidels being me and anyone else who is not Muslim.

HOWEVER, that was cowardly, disgusting and they ought to be arrested for doing it. The last time I checked, even Muslims have the right to freedom OF religion.

[schsa]

I hope that they find who did it and jail them. That is so uncalled for.

[memphistn]

NOT all of the nation of Islam teaches hate, although ALL religious extremists are bad, christianity can be taken to the extremes also. But, I agree, it is disgusting that something like this actually happened:rolleyes:

[momtofuss]

I agree with the poster above, it is just the extremists who tend to give bad names to their different religions

[rain_cries]

Exactly... No one should be persecuted for their religious beliefs.

[momfromTN]

Exactly.

[momtofuss]

I think it was nice of the community to try to help them, it shows unity espically in times like this :)

[ulqini24]

Originally posted by momfromTN
I do not agree with Islam, as I feel it teaches hate, because the Koran teaches that the infidels are to be killed, the infidels being me and anyone else who is not Muslim.

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Did you ever read the Koran? Probably not, you should read it first and then make a comment like this.

You cant judge an entire religion because of some idiots.

[ieatalot]

but its hard NOT to judge when you only hear about the bad things that comes from this religion. No, it wasn't right for people to be throw blood but they are doing exactly what the racicals do themselves & that is attacking innocent people, they are no maor better then the radicals themselves.

[Barbi_Route66]

This is awful! Why can't people just respect the religious beliefs of others?

If the people who go around doing hateful acts use that energy to do something good & positive, the world would be a nicer place for all of us.