Category Archives: Burning Korans

BNP ‘Koran burn’ candidate Sion Owens case withdrawn

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BBC…The Crown Prosecution Service said it was withdrawing the case against Sion Owens

The case has been withdrawn against a BNP candidate for the Welsh assembly election who had been accused of being filmed burning a copy of the Koran.

Sion Owens, aged 41, was charged with a public order offence on Saturday.

When he appeared at Swansea Magistrates Court the Crown Prosecution Service said it was withdrawing the case against him.

 In other words, burning your own private property while on your own private property can not be concidered a public order offence.

But it said that investigations would continue and that “almost certainly other proceedings will ensue.”

 In other words, we will get him on something else.

Mr Owens, from Bonymaen, Swansea, appeared in court from custody.

A BNP candidate for the South Wales West regional list, he was arrested on Friday evening when the force was passed a video recording showing a man burning the Koran.

He was charged on Saturday evening under the Public Order Act.

Joanne Shannon, another BNP candidate also arrested in connection with the incident, had already been released on police bail.

A BNP spokesperson said both would still be candidates in the assembly election on 5 May.

CPS prosecutor Bryn Hurford told Mr Owens to be in “no doubt” that investigations into his actions were continuing and that “almost certainly other proceedings will ensue.”

Speaking outside the court, Mr Owens solicitor, Rachel Elimelech, said he was “pleased” and “very relieved to be released from custody”.

An Iranian and an Afghani burn a Koran. IN IRAN.

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Now these guys have gonads of Teflon. Ill see if I can get a translation for titles. But the Washington Times says it was about their protest of all the nonsense the Islamic world does over this kind
of thing.

These two guys are my heroes.

Below, the Times explanation:

Two anonymous young men in Iran, one Iranian and one Afghan, have burned a Koran in protest. This seven-and-a-half minute long video shows the two men, their faces obscured, holding the Muslim holy book and reading prepared statements. Afterwards they stand the Koran on a flat rock, douse it alcohol and light it. One of them hoots and laughs. The book burns fiercely, and after a few moments one of them sprays more alcohol into the flames. The video ends with them warming their hands over the blazing book.

BNP election candidate arrested over Qur’an burning

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From The Guardian:

Footage leaked to the Observer shows Welsh Assembly candidate setting fire to Islamic holy book in his garden

    >Sion Owens
    Sion Owens, a BNP candiate for the forthcoming Welsh Assembly elections. Nick Griffin is not believed to have known about the Qur’an burning film.

    A senior member of the BNP who burned a copy of the Qur’an in his garden has been arrested following an investigation by the Observer.

    Footage of the burning shows Sion Owens, 40, from south Wales and a candidate for the forthcoming Welsh Assembly elections, soaking the Qur’an in kerosene and setting fire to it.

    A video clip of the act, leaked to the Observer and passed immediately to South Wales police, provoked fierce criticism from the government. Continue Reading →

Bill Maher on the Koran burning

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I would like to add my own thoughts to all these people who dismiss Pastor Jones as some kind of kook or intolerant fringe nutbag.

In the 1960s, huge numbers of women burned their brassieres as symbols of oppression of women. I would challenge each and every women who did that, and every person who agrees or even understands that action to read the Koran and tell me which is the larger symbol of the oppression of women. Keep in mind, that it is a safe bet that every one of those women who burned their bras were wearing one again within a year or two, if not that afternoon.

H/T Gates of Vienna.

Often I do not say this enough as I try and do too much in a day as a rule. But most of my tips come from awesome readers too numerous to list here, and from fabulous sites like Gates of Vienna, ICLA, Tundra Tabloids etc. Thank you to all of them.

And the desecration of the Koran award goes to….

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I don’t know everyone has seemingly missed this guy but he is the most creative despoiler of koran’s I have yet seen. He makes my Korandle pale by comparison. He has done a video every single day since what looks to be January of this year, way before the current Afghan riots, with a new idea each time. Some, too vulgar to write out here, and of course these are the most viewed, and some funny and some banal, but all good solid desecration of Islam’s ‘holy’ book.

This much work I figure deserves an award so I invented the first annual…

Vlad Tepes Blog Koranic Desecration Award 2011

Given to:

‘Snookie’

Just for this guy. I doubt anyone else will earn this one for quite some time. His is likely a record that will stand the test of time. But we can always hope can’t we?

Eeyore for Vlad.

Thanks to Baron Boddesey for making this exceptional award for Vlad Tepes

Andrea King interviews Ann Barnhardt

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Ann is excellent here as she is in her now viral youtube video about the burning of the Koran and subsequent riots, but I have to take issue with her admonishment of Western men for lack of action. Overwhelmingly it is men who are fighting Islamic nutbags world wide, and frankly, women fought like hell for decades to emasculate men and reshape the relationship between the sexes. I’m sorry you don’t like the results. But the results you see, are the results you created. You, and women across the western world. Now you better step up to the plate and take your share of the responsibility now that you have taken more than your share of the privilege and wealth.

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Below, the scene from Tombstone she spoke of. (And it really is a great movie)

Diana West: Culture Check 2011

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Diana West.net

What happens when Everyguy Icon Bill O’Reilly pushes the calamitous absurdity that Pastor Terry Jones “has blood on his hands,” and Hezbollah puts a $2.4 million bounty on Jones’ head?

We don’t know.

We do know the epic scale of invective hurled at Jones the world over has helped turn  this American citizen who has broken no law but Islam’s into a moving target. But it has also objectified a human being. When Jones is gratuitously disparaged as a “kook,” a “nut,” an “insane Christian” (as O’Reilly said), and much, much worse for his (perfectly logical) symbolic act of putting on trial  and burning a copy of a book that codifies conquest and enslavement, supremacism and bigotry, Jones is making a statement. Just as Fitna made a statement. Just as the Pope’s Regensberg Address made a statement. Just as the publication — and particularly the re-publication — of the Danish Motoons made a statement. These statements vary but none of them violate legal, peaceful means of expression. None of them caused the murder and mayhem many Muslims engaged in in illegal and violent and Islamically sanctioned reaction. Geert Wilders is no more responsible for the murders of two Dutch soldiers in Afghanistan following the release of Fitna than the Pope is responsible for the murder of an elderly nun in Somalia following his Regensberg Address than Pastor Jones is responsible for the murders of UN personnel and others in Afghanistan following his Koran-burning act — heretofore unnoticed, by the way, until Hamid Karzai publicly denounced it and called for Jones’ arrest.  (It would be most interesting to know the hidden chain of events that drew Karzai into this.)

But just as the nature of the Islamic world is revealed by its reaction to these peaceful if robust critiques, so, too, is the nature of the Western world revealed. It is an ugly thing. Like Pavlovic  robots, our dhimmified, mentally besieged peoples rush to protect Islam, to ward off “disrespect” of its chief symbol — its “holy” book —  like primitives engaging in a communal fetish. In so doing, they desert our un-Islamic, indeed, anti-Islamic freedoms, leaving them unguarded and devalued. In the case of Jones, a rural preacher with a big mustache, they isolate and dehumanize a man at the margins of the public square they dominate. Our elites, our leaders, society at large have thus marked Jones for discard with the 21st-century equivalent of a scarlet letter “A” (apostasy  against sharia). Such objectified contempt, as history shows us, is a perilous state of being

But note: Just as society objectifies Jones the living, breathing human being, society endows the book, the thing, the object he burned in protest with a spirit, rights, even a sensitive nature that demands the utmost consideration and respect of all.

Culture Check 2011: Jones the Man is spurned and objectified. The Koran the Thing is elevated, anthropomorpized, made … incarnate.

We are way into the danger zone.

Diana West on what we hope is the Vox Populi

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I must say, that woman who made those 2 excellent videos on the Koran burning may be destined for some real recognition and deserved celebrity. Lets hope so. Below, Diana West’s article on her and her videos. No worries about taking them down though. The moment they disappear, IF they disappear, they will reappear as one file on a site which allows embeds, and youtube has no control over.

Apr 5

Written by: Diana West
Tuesday, April 05, 2011 5:42 AM 

VS.

Below, I am posting links to a 2-part video by a gal in Colorado named Ann Barnhardt whom I am most pleased to call a fellow citizen — as opposed to such fellow citizens as the craven Lindsey Graham, the battle-stressed David Petraeus and the Islamophile Barack Obama (?), to name a few of the most prominent dhimmis functioning in and dominating the public space.

About that public space: It’s extremely hard to get a word in there — hard to stand out against the static, hard to punch through the murk of propaganda and appeasement that serves as an excuse for news and policy. Punching through becomes the work of activists, lightning rods, so-called “zealots,” people whom it is all too easy for gloss-encased, college-pedigreed elites to dismiss as “nuts,” and worse. Random, recent examples here, here.

But, folks — due to the emergency crisis in our leadership, civilian and military, professional and clerical, and their total surrender to Islam, as evidenced never before more gut-wrenchingly than in this latest Afghan-massacre-queued capitulation by the presidency (no surprise, obviously), by the military command, by the Congress, by  the media, by the undefinable but still perceptible “consensus” — we are down to these supposed “nuts” and lightning rods. God bless them and America.

The fact is, I could write a (relatively) non-“nutty” syndicated column a week for 10 years on the copiously, redundantly, patently documented evils of Islam (gee, come to think of it …). I could get lots of supportive mail that I deeply appreciate, refine my arguments, work on a book or two (half) on related subjects, give talks at home and even abroad — and what. Nothing changes. No ignition — except, of course, that of the country, which continues, hell-in-handbasket-style, to go up in smoke, which is a far stretch worse than a single copy of the Koran burning; or, as our dhimmified, diss-able “leaders” prefer, aping the “a la mode,” the holy Qu’ran. Continue Reading →

Former Pakistani diplomat attempts to explain the slaughter of Sufi Muslims by regular Muslims.

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Another great clip from Wrath of Khan. This Pakistani of course is using the usual dodge, attempting to blame Islamic slaughter on poverty and so on. The host doesn’t seem to go for it.


TALIBAN CLAIM RESPONSIBILITY FOR ATTACK ON PAKISTAN TEMPLE

Obama appologises for Koran burning, and is burned himself in effigy in Afghanistan

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Here is an interesting couple of clips. At least Obama took a stand on the issue, albeit a soft one.

Meanwhile, this just in from STRATFOR:

Afghanistan: More Than 100 Dead In Kandahar Riots
April 3, 2011
More than 100 people have died in the fifth district of Kandahar, Afghanistan, where police are reportedly firing automatic weapons into a crowd of rioters trying to storm a U.N. building, witnesses said April 3, RIA Novosti reported. A source within the Afghan Interior Ministry confirmed the death toll. Police said Taliban militants have joined the protesters, who began rioting after a U.S. pastor publicly burned a Quran.

Pastor Jones responds to the Afghan riots

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This woman who interviews Jones is quite bereft of any understanding of any of the issues she herself raises. The near desperate attempt to resuscitate moral and cultural relativism by this media person is itself offensive. Thanks Kitman for this video. Here is the CTV clip I posted the other night of the riots in Afghanistan.