Comments by "marie parker" (@marieparker3822) on "Hate Crime - We Stand!" video.
-
6
-
A woman from the Gulf States was wearing a long dress, which was printed with Arabic writing all over it, in Lahore, Pakistan. She was surrounded by a mob of hundreds of yelling men calling for her blood because 'she had sat disrespectfully on verses from the Qu'ran, thus committing blasphemy'. She was rescued by an outstandingly brave female police officer who put her own life at risk to lead the woman out of the mob.
It turned out that the Arabic writing did not say anything from the Qu'ran, but said things like 'this dress is beautiful'. The mob, most of whom were probably illiterate and could not even read Urdu, recognised Arabic writing and assumed that it was from the Qu'ran - after all, nothing else has been published in Arabic, has it? It shows you how much they must understand of their holy text. Btw, the works of 13th and 14th century Islamic philosophers such as Averroes, Avicenna and Ibn Rushd, are banned in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States today.
2