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British teenager arrested for posting video of burning Koran
A 14-year-old boy was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of making threats. Both have been released on police bail.
It is thought the girl, who lives in the Sandwell Council area, was allegedly filmed setting the booklet alight while other pupils watched.
Two Facebook profiles have also been removed from the site, police added.









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Appeasement.
the_nile on November 26, 2010 at 11:38 AM
Sad
blatantblue on November 26, 2010 at 11:38 AM
Whither Europe.
artist on November 26, 2010 at 11:40 AM
I thought that said Bible at first. Kidding.
Hope you like your Sharia law Brits.
conservative pilgrim on November 26, 2010 at 11:41 AM
Again the advantage of a written constitution is shown. Thank God for the 1st and 2nd amendments in the USA.
SunSword on November 26, 2010 at 11:46 AM
Go on YouTube and enter “muslim rioters chase police” and you will watch two dozen Britsh cops run for their lives from muslim thugs.
But a fourteen year old girl didn’t scare them.
NeoKong on November 26, 2010 at 11:56 AM
Makes one want to download a copy of a koran, burn it, tape it, and upload it to the internet.
Blake on November 26, 2010 at 12:01 PM
Attention: don’t burn it, read portions of it aloud and post that on YouTube.
Akzed on November 26, 2010 at 12:02 PM
I don’t understand the problem. The child violated Sharia law, and the authorities followed it.
What’s with all this blabbering about “freedom of speech” and “personal liberty?” That shows an appalling lack of tolerance.
logis on November 26, 2010 at 12:04 PM
If the Koran were true, then one match lighting fire to one book wouldn’t be any tremendous threat to their Faith–so much of a threat that mob violence is likely to be incited by one match touched to one little book. They’d let God sort it out, and just feel pity for the perpetrator.
RBMN on November 26, 2010 at 12:10 PM
That’s terrible.
ernesto on November 26, 2010 at 12:12 PM
I feel like this should be a “it’s come to this…” headline.
CityFish on November 26, 2010 at 12:36 PM
What are you talking about? What happened here is precisely what the Koran teaches: violence and persecution against all who do not submit to Islam.
According to the Koran, that is the ultimate “truth.”
People just don’t get it. We keep trying to judge Islam by the standards valued by free societies. They simply do not apply. There is no inconsistency here; there is only conflict. All Muslims are taught how that must be resolved; we are not.
logis on November 26, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Islam is the problem. Violence is the heart of Islam.
GardenGnome on November 26, 2010 at 12:50 PM
The burning or the arrest?
lorien1973 on November 26, 2010 at 12:56 PM
Islam must dominate and not be dominated.
(Or opposed, mocked, criticized, analyzed, ad nauseam.)
Until the West gets this little truth through its thick multiculti skull, the infiltration and colonization by Mohammedans marches on.
Silence kaffir dogs! will be the rule.
And bow like Obama to the superior faith’s representatives, icons and dogmas.
profitsbeard on November 26, 2010 at 12:57 PM
Foolish lad, should have just stayed with burning the Bible, then you’ll be another enlightened intellectual.
bayview on November 26, 2010 at 2:03 PM
Now you know why we are fighting for the innocence of Islam against the tiny fringe of lonesome losers who have hijacked it.
Don’t be concerned, it didn’t happen near you.
Sorry, Islam triumphs over the Constitution.
BL@KBIRD on November 26, 2010 at 2:10 PM
How long before the Brits are slaves in their own land?
Kjeil on November 26, 2010 at 2:44 PM
Praise to the TSA and the East Lansing, Michigan police departments for doing the work of Allah
PrezHussein on November 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM
That teenager has the right idea, but it needs to be repeated X millions. Overload their moonbatteries. No way the solar cells and windmills can keep up.
Feedie on November 26, 2010 at 4:21 PM
Uunnhh, UK is still a christian nation. With one or three “v!olent disagreements” in their past. And not too far back either.
Have matches; will travel.
Caststeel on November 26, 2010 at 4:35 PM
It is really sweet that firearms are no longer required to excite Muzzies; matches or even a flame will suffice. Will flint and steel get a fatwa ?
Caststeel on November 26, 2010 at 4:40 PM
There is something seriously wrong with Britain and has been for a long time. It seems that every 2-3 days there is more ground lost to Muslim demands. And there seems to be enough Brits who are willing to acquiesce to every single one of those demands.
Yet Muslims with those hateful placards get a free pass. I’m so sick of the double standard, but even more p*ssed off at how afraid so many people have become of Islam.
Why not just call the burning of the Qur’an art? Here is a Muslim artist who wins who puts his hateful art up for sale for 3500 pounds.
Via Jihad Watch.
Image at article or singled out.
I bet if a non-Muslim drew some images of Muhammad that might just cause some riots.
How about putting a Muslim terrorist in a movie without fear that Muslims will try to kill the actors and studio reps and then try to blow up the filming stage.
We all are told that is a hate crime … not the killing of the actors and studio reps, but representing a Muslim as a terrorist.
In Africa the Janjaweed (Arab Muslims) at any give time are killing the Black Muslims, burning their villages down, raping all the young girls and destroying all the Black Muslims Qur’ans, but you don’t here the world’s Islam apologists condemn the Janjaweed. No, that is perfectly fine.
What is that deathly silence from CAIR?
It is time to stand up to Islam once and for all, no matter the outcome.
Brass on November 26, 2010 at 4:41 PM
Muslims warn of anarchy if Christian mother pardoned
Brass on November 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM