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To: longnshort who wrote (3652)	12/23/2006 4:38:55 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Notice you don't ever read stories about Christians being outraged at a book being "desecrated" by kids? Koran abused in Bible payback The Australian ^ \| 22nd December 2006 \| Richard Kerbaj news.com.au A KORAN has been torn up and smeared with faeces and the floors of a Melbourne prayer hall urinated on, in an apparent retaliation to Muslim schoolboys desecrating the Bible. The Islamic community was last night furious as the police continued their investigation into the "criminal damage" done to the Melbourne airport facility on Wednesday morning. Muslim spiritual leader Fehmi Naji El-Imam condemned the desecration as "ignorant and immature", fearing that it was in retaliation to an incident earlier this month where young boys at a Melbourne Islamic school burned and urinated on the Bible. "This kind of behaviour just puts you off," the Victorian Board of Imams' secretary said last night. "We want to eliminate all these kind of things from happening to any (holy book)." While police last night refused to outline or confirm the damage done to the prayer centre, Sheik Fehmi said he was told that the floor was urinated on and the Koran was torn up and someone had "wiped themselves" with it. He said while he was not expecting any violent retaliation from the Islamic community, the offenders should be "strongly punished by the law". "The courts should handle it once the person is caught," Sheik Fehmi said. A statement by the Victorian Board of Imams last night warned the Islamic and Christian community against an "us and them" mentality. "The prayer room is a place that must remain clean, not covered in urine and faeces. "Enough is enough. No more us and them ... The striving of our forefathers was not for this; they would be really ashamed of us if they were to witness what we have sunk to. (Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ....