Since a Koran wielded by the wrong person kills, perhaps it is time to start background checks on potential purchasers to ensure none fall into the hands of the mentally unstable. Considering the second paragraph in the quote below, even those that are sold should have a page capacity limit of 10.
Incidentally, when I grew up in the capital of Wales, Cardiff, not even the police carried Korans.
From here:
In the summer of 2010, mourners lined the streets of Wales’s capital city to pay tribute to a seven-year-old boy killed in a house fire. In fact, Yaseen Ali Ege was brutally beaten to death, and then set alight with barbecue fuel. By his mother. For failing to learn the Koran. Over the preceding months, Mom had used a stick, a rolling pin, and a hammer on her son, but, despite these incentives, he had memorized only a couple of pages. And so she killed him, and subsequently declared she felt “100 percent better.”
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Of course not all Muslims brutalize their families — although the ten-year-old daughter of Asia Parveen of Stoke Newington was treated for 56 injuries after being beaten for not reading enough verses of the Koran, and Hesha Yones of west London had her throat cut by her father for being too “Westernized,” and a five-month-old baby in Halmstad, Sweden, was beaten to death with a Koran
I spent my 25 cents for the “collection” plate once, on bubble gum that got tangled in my hair, (dead giveaway).
My Mom cut the gum out with dull scissors, and made me wash the Sunday dishes.
I never bought bubble gum again with collection money.
Atrocities. That’s the only word to describe these abuses.
The article says, “a BBC poll last year revealed that two-thirds of young British Muslims favor violence against those who “dishonor” their families, and in the Netherlands Muslims make up 60 percent of the population of battered-women’s shelters.” Apparently, this is the trend. Muslims in Oslo Norway, for example, are 3.5% of the population, but account for 70 percent of the domestic violence cases and as much as 90 percent of the rapes.