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"She will take her quoran to jail and read it day and night and find more hatred and cause for violence."
THIS just crossed the line.
As a Muslim student in the United States, I cannot tolerate that statement at all.
Do you realize that you are taking the holy book of the world's 2nd-largest and fastest-growing religion and basically wittling it down to a manual of "hatred"?
I agree that the Brits are more "liberal" than us Americans but much, much less tolerant to foreigners. If you ever happen to visit London (or practically any modern Euro. city for that matter) you will realize that blocks of the city are split into ethinic neighborhoods. In the USA, the furthest "ethnic" neighborhoods reach are black or hispanic-dominated streets. That's it.
As a politically moderate Muslim-American, I have to say that I would fear the woman. Airport background checks apparently are not strong enough, or perhaps she was employed before she started becoming interested in all this jihad.
I'm not a lawyer nor do I have a clue about the judicial system, so really I have no opinion about whether she should be in jail or not.
What SHOULD be done, however, is to figure out how the youngest adults of every Westernized society are becoming more influenced by these extremists! And I'm not just speaking about Islamic extremists! Extremism can be drugs, alcohol, suicide...Religion doesn't necessarily have to have the most influence on their lives. They are, after all, young adults.
But seriously, the Qur'an comment crossed the line. I'm not going to even start lecturing on that. I'm surprised no one else has stood up against it. There are so many BAD BAD BAD translations of the Qur'an which may make phrases seem full of hate, but essentially it is the philosophy of Islam. And as risky as it may seem to say this in the 21st century, Islam is NOT a religion of hate.
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