After two copies of the Koran were found in a toilet in a men&#8217;s bathroom on campus, University of Texas at Dallas campus police decided to investigate in order to track down the suspects.
On April 11, the news of the incident was reported by The Mercury, UT-Dallas&#8217; student newspaper; the paper stated that two students found the copies of the Koran and alerted authorities.
UT-Dallas Police Chief Larry Zacharias told the <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2017/04/13/qurans-found-ut-dallas-toilet/">Texas Tribune</a> that police are reviewing security video footage; he added that police have narrowed the time frame of the incident to a 30-minute window. Zacharias told <a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/04/13/investigation-after-copies-of-quran-discovered-in-ut-dallas-toilet/">KTVT</a>, &#8220;It&#8217;s not something we want to blast out on campus because we don&#8217;t want people to go, &#8216;Oh, you&#8217;re a suspect in the Koran thing.&#8217; We originally suspected these Korans may have come out of the Reflection Room, which is on the first floor of the Student Union. We&#8217;ve watched video in this timeframe and only two people went into that Reflection Room &#8212; both went in empty-handed and both came out empty-handed.&#8221;
Zacharias opined that the incident was not reflective of any anti-Muslim hate on campus, asserting, &#8220;There&#8217;s not much divisiveness on this campus at all &#8230; We constantly ask all of our students, from all backgrounds, do they feel safe on campus? And [the answer] is always yes.&#8221;
Strangely, no one has claimed the Korans as their stolen property, so no complaint has been filed. Zacharias told <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/04/14/university-police-open-investigation-into-alleged-quran-flushing-incident/?utm_content=buffer9c10c&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer">TheBlaze</a> that the investigation will continue anyway because the act was offensive. He said, &#8220;First, it would not matter if this were a Quran, a Bible, or a Tora, the act of disposing a religious book or symbol in a toilet is considered an offensive act by our University community. There is an expectation of our community to investigate the incident, even though we have not identified, at this time, a possible owner that would serve as a criminal complainant.&#8221;
The president of UT-Dallas&#8217; Muslim Students Association, Mohammad Syed, snapped, &#8220;Given the current political climate and how Muslims are portrayed in the media, it makes certain individuals act in this hateful way.&#8221; He added that the UT-Dallas community has responded with support and appreciation.
Last August, a University of Texas, Austin professor decided to <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8054">mock the Bible</a> during a campus carry protest; Professor Steven Friesen, who taught in UT&#8217;s religious studies department, pontificated, &#8220;In the old Bible, Jesus says, blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God,&#8221; then insisted a revised version should state: &#8220;blessed are the purely heartless, for they will seek NRA funding.&#8221; His version of the Golden Rule? &#8220;In everything, do unto others before they do to you, for this is state law and it profits the gun industry.&#8221;
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&#8220;Given the current political climate and how Muslims are portrayed in the media, it makes certain individuals act in this hateful way.&#8221;
Mohammad Syed, president of UT-Dallas&#8217; Muslim Students Association 
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Friesen also mocked The Lord&#8217;s Prayer: &#8220;Our father, who art in heaven, hollow point be thy bullets. Thy kingdom come, with many guns, on earth that send bad guys to heaven. Give us this day our daily threat, and forgive us our trespasses as we shoot those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from dildos.&#8221;

Someone Allegedly Flushed A Koran Down A Toilet. Now A University Is Investigating.

Austin

Koran

University of Texas

Renowned comic book publisher Marvel <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39576705/marvel-fires-artist-ardian-syaf-over-religious-references-in-x-men-comic-book">fired</a> Indonesian comic artist Ardian Syaf on Wednesday for incorporating religious-based imagery in the second and third issues of X-Men: Gold. The artist included an image of an individual wearing a shirt that said &#8220;QS 5:51,&#8221; referring to the following <a href="https://quran.com/5/51">passage</a> in the Qur&#8217;an:
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O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you &#8211; then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/Marvel">@Marvel</a> I thought X-Men would have stood for inclusiveness and tolerance, yet QS 5:51 is literally the opposite. Hope you&#8217;re taking actions. <a href="https://t.co/hBoh64AkxF">pic.twitter.com/hBoh64AkxF</a>
&#8212; Dirga Ong (@diekarasu) <a href="https://twitter.com/diekarasu/status/850577714327166976">April 8, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Syaf also <a href="https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/04/12/marvel-owned-disney-jews-offended-no-mercy-ardian-syaf-dismissal-marvel/#.WO-CPdUva7U.twitter">included</a> images of the words &#8220;212,&#8221; which is a symbol of protest against the Christian governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as Amok. 
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<a href="https://twitter.com/MarkPaniccia">@MarkPaniccia</a> Are you aware that Adrian Syaf included bigoted messages in X-Men Gold #1? This shouldn&#8217;t be allowed. <a href="https://t.co/qIyjYgqT5Q">https://t.co/qIyjYgqT5Q</a> <a href="https://t.co/drPjBFWYsh">pic.twitter.com/drPjBFWYsh</a>
&#8212; DJ Rogers (@faluians) <a href="https://twitter.com/faluians/status/850727407581634566">April 8, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Syaf also drew a Jewish character in front of a jewelry store, representing the old polemic that the Jews love money, jewelry, and diamonds.
In response to his firing, Syaf said the following:
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But Marvel is owned by Disney. When Jews are offended, there is no mercy.
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Clearly, he is simply a peaceful, inclusive individual who harbors no animosity for Jews.
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Anti-Semitism

Marvel

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On Tuesday, Mean Girls actress Lindsay Lohan <a href="http://heatst.com/entertainment/lindsay-lohan-i-was-racially-profiled-while-wearing-a-headscarf/?mod=sm_tw_post">told </a>Good Morning Britain hosts that she was &#8220;racially profiled&#8221; by TSA while wearing an Islamic headscarf at the Heathrow Airport in London. 
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An airport worker &#8220;opened my passport and saw &#8216;Lindsay Lohan&#8217; and started immediately apologizing, but then said: &#8216;Please take off your headscarf,'&#8221; claims Lohan. 
The 30-year-old added that the incident made her consider &#8220;how would another woman who doesn&#8217;t feel comfortable taking off her headscarf feel.&#8221;
The actress, who has been pictured holding a Koran and recently rumored to be a Muslim convert, was leaving Turkey and headed to her New York City home. Lohan recently met with Turkish President Erdogan to discuss the <a href="http://www.vulture.com/2017/01/lindsay-lohan-meets-with-the-president-of-turkey.html">plight of Syrian refugees</a>&#8211;because only in 2017 does the renowned Parent Trap star known for flashing her genitals to the paparazzi meet with the Turkish president to talk humanitarian issues. 
Lohan said she was wearing the headscarf at the airport out of &#8220;personal respect&#8221; for the Syrian woman who gave it to her while visiting in Turkey. 
&#8220;When the woman put that headscarf on me, I felt really honoured because she went out of her own way to allow me to be a part of my own culture and she didn&#8217;t have to do that,&#8221; said Lohan. 
&#8220;I said I really liked the colour of her headscarf and she gave it to me, and maybe she had two and she gave me one&#8212;there&#8217;s more in the story that occurred,&#8221; the actress continued. 
&#8220;Because this woman took the time to give me this, and a part of herself, not even knowing me, I&#8217;m not taking it off,&#8221; concluded Lohan. 
Rumors have been flying over the former party girl&#8217;s alleged conversion to Islam. Last month, the 30-year-old stripped her Instagram account of all posts before adding an &#8220;Alaikum salam&#8221; caption, which is Arabic for &#8220;peace be with you.&#8221;
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Lindsay Lohan deleted all her pictures after converts to Islam with the caption &#8216;Alaikum salam&#8217; on her instagram. May Allah bless you <a href="https://t.co/Yk04HjxJo6">pic.twitter.com/Yk04HjxJo6</a>
&#8212; goldilocks (@thepocahontas98) <a href="https://twitter.com/thepocahontas98/status/819873807124942850">January 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Lohan&#8217;s mother Dina has denied the rumors.

Lindsay Lohan: I Was ‘Racially Profiled’ At The Airport

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The New York Times has uncovered a <a href="http://cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/new-video-afghan-woman-barbarically-lynched-after-being-falsely-accused">gruesome video</a> of an Afghan woman being brutally murdered by a mob after being accused of burning a Quran.
The woman, Farkhunda Malikzada, was alleged of burning a Quran by an Islamic cleric. Malikzada was then &#8220;viciously beaten, stoned, deliberately run over by a car, thrown into a dry river bed, crushed with larger stones, and then set on fire&#8221; by a mob while the police played the role of innocent bystanders.
The Afghanistan Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs later concluded that the allegations against Malikzada were untrue. Four people involved in the mob were sentenced to death, only to have those death sentences overturned by an appeals court. The police were sentenced to a year in jail for not protecting Malikzada.
Malikzada was horrifically murdered for allegedly burning a religious text. The religion of peace indeed.
The full video can be seen here:
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(h/t: <a href="http://cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/new-video-afghan-woman-barbarically-lynched-after-being-falsely-accused">CNS News</a>)

Video: Afghan Woman Murdered By Mob After Being Falsely Accused of Burning a Quran (WARNING: Graphic)

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In a <a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/10/04/ben_carson_slanders_islam_heres_exactly_why_his_claims_about_muslims_are_dead_wrong/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=socialflow">fact-defying column </a>attacking GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson for Salon, Qasim Rashid, Esq. a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Prince al-Waleed bin Talal School of Islamic Studies, makes the astonishing claim that Islam is more pro-woman than America.
Rashid quotes Carson&#8217;s claim that “Under Shariah law, women must be subservient and people following other religions must be killed.&#8221; He continues, &#8220;If Dr. Carson is correct—and unfortunately his rising poll figures indicate that enough Americans believe he is correct—then America’s 3 million Muslims are obliged to make America’s 170 million women subservient and likewise kill the nation’s 330 million non-Muslims. Both concepts are beyond absurd and wholly unfounded in Islam.&#8221;
Then Rashid delivers his pronouncement: &#8220;Far from Dr. Carson’s claim that in Islam women are subservient, Islam gave women equal rights in 610 that our own United States haven’t given even in 2015. To this day America has not passed the Equal Rights Amendment. Meanwhile the Quran 33:36 emphatically declares the equality of men and women: &#8220;Surely, men who submit themselves to God and women who submit themselves to Him…God has prepared for all of them forgiveness and a great reward.”
Rashid resorts to claims that are patently false: &#8220;Islam was the first religion to give women the right to choose to marry or to divorce, the right to own property, to become secular or religious scholars, the right to inherit, or to run a business—all in the 7th century &#8230; Fatimah al-Fihri, an African Muslim woman scholar, used her inheritance from her father to establish the world’s first University, al-Qarawiyyin University in 859 C.E.&#8221; He ignores the Bible completely, in which the daughters of Zelophehad inherited their father&#8217;s property, as he had no sons, as well as the story of the judge Deborah, lauded by the Jewish people for her wisdom. In addition, the world&#8217;s first university was <a href="http://veda.wikidot.com/tip:world-first-university-takshila">established</a> in 700 B.C.E. in Takshashila, in the northwest region of Bharat (India).
<blockquote>&#8220;Just how in the name of reality does Rashid claim Islam treats women better than America?&#8221;</blockquote>
But leaving ancient history aside, just how in the name of reality does Rashid claim Islam treats women better than America? As Matthew famously said, &#8220;Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.&#8221;
<blockquote>In fact, in 2011, The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women didn&#8217;t even list statistics for violence against women in virtually any Islamic country, with the exceptions of Egypt and Turkey.​</blockquote>
As the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/understanding-islamism/womens-rights-under-sharia">Clarion Project</a> has pointed out, certain constants remain in Islamic marriage laws, including:
<blockquote>A man is entitled to up to four wives, but a woman may only have one husband. In Western societies, a man typically only takes one wife.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The husband (or his family) pays a “bride price” or &#8220;dower&#8221; (mahr, which is money or property paid to the bride) which she is entitled to keep. This “mahr” is in exchange for sexual submission (tamkin). Sexual submission is traditionally regarded as unconditional consent for the remainder of the marriage.</blockquote>
<blockquote>A man can divorce his wife by making a declaration (talaq) in front of an Islamic judge irrespective of the woman&#8217;s consent. Even her presence is not required. For a woman to divorce a man (khula), his consent is required.
There is no joint property; the man owns all property, (except for what the woman owned before the marriage).In addition,</blockquote>
Where do you start with abuse of women in Islamic societies? In <a href="http://www.carefrance.org/ressources/themas/1/3958,CARE_The-Girl-Has-No-Rights_GBV-in-.pdf">Sudan</a>, where &#8220;the vast majority of women and girls will survive at least one form of gender-based violence (GBV) — be it rape; sexual assault; physical assault; forced/early marriage; denial of resources, opportunities or services; or psychological/emotional abuse?&#8221; In Iran, where <a href="http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2015/03/vigilante-violence-report/">acid was flung</a> in to the faces of women, and other women have been <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/special-report-the-punishment-was-death-by-stoning-the-crime-having-a-mobile-phone-8846585.html">stoned</a>? In <a href="https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/saudi-arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>, where women are not allowed to visit a male doctor without their male guardians, or arry without the permission of their guardian? The list goes on and on.
Rashid also attacks Carson’s second claim, that Shariah requires killing people of other faiths, protesting that the Koran only permits fighting in self-defense, or to protect “churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques” from attack. He asserts, &#8220;Prophet Muhammad issued numerous charters with Christians, Jews, and pagans to affirm his commitment to universal religious freedom and equal human rights for all people regardless of faith.&#8221;
That ignores Muhammad&#8217;s massacre of the Jewish tribe of the Qurayzah in 627 C.E. As one website <a href="http://www.hirhome.com/islam/art.htm">notes</a>, &#8220;according to a consensus of classical Muslim scholars of hadith (putative utterances and acts of Muhammad, recorded by pious Muslim transmitters), biographers of Muhammad’s life, jurists, and historians &#8230; some six hundred to nine hundred men from the Qurayzah were led on Muhammad’s order to the Market of Medina. Trenches were dug, and the men were beheaded; their decapitated corpses were buried in the trenches while Muhammad watched.&#8221;
Rashid also ignores the famous dictum from the hadith, “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.” (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim).&#8221;
Rashid also ignores Shaykh Muhammad Mukhtar al-Mahdi, professor at Al Azhar and head of the Islamic Law Society, <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/12/jew-behind-tree.html">quoting </a>this text at a major conference at Al Azhar in Cairo. Barack Obama loves Al Azhar University, of which he <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-cairo-university-6-04-09">once said</a>, &#8220;For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning.&#8221;
If someone needs a dose of reality, it isn&#8217;t Carson.

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