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Another Muslim offended

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by gwayneco, Oct 2, 2005.

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  1. gwayneco

    gwayneco Contributing Member

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    http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005450600,00.html

    Muslims win toy pigs ban

    NOVELTY pig calendars and toys have been banned from a council office — in case they offend Muslim staff.

    Workers in the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, were told to remove or cover up all pig-related items, including toys, porcelain figures, calendars and even a tissue box featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet.

    Bosses acted after a Muslim complained about pig-shaped stress relievers delivered to the council in the run-up to the Islamic festival of Ramadan.

    Muslims are barred from eating pork in the Koran and consider pigs unclean.

    Councillor Mahbubur Rahman, a practising Muslim, backed the ban. He said: “It’s a tolerance of people’s beliefs.”
     
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    gwayneco taking up SamFisher's challenge...

    Are you 13 or something? That would explain it.
     
  3. MR. MEOWGI

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    To Muslims really believe that god spoke and said "pigs are bad"?

    I think gwayneco is really a pig and that's why he creates all these Muslim threads.
     
  4. gwayneco

    gwayneco Contributing Member

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    And here's another offended Muslim.
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    http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_3078522
    Jury throws out Muslim man's lawsuit
    Plaintiff said Hayward officers made derogatory remarks about Islam during his 2002 arrest

    By Matt O'Brien, STAFF WRITER


    HAYWARD — A federal jury has rejected the lawsuit of a Muslim businessman who accused two Hayward police officers of making derogatory remarks about Islam.

    Easa Begzad, who owned a Foley Street factory that manufactured Afghan sweets, sued the city of Hayward for allegedly violating his civil rights after police detained and hospitalized him following a police call to his business in 2002.

    But after a civil trial that lasted nearly two weeks, a jury in U.S. District Court in San Francisco returned a verdict late Thursday afternoon in favor of the two officers. The jury rejected Begzad's demands for $1 million from the city.

    Begzad could not be reached for comment Friday, and his Fremont attorney, Salim Khawaja, also did not return calls.

    Randolph Hom, an assistant city attorney for Hayward, said the testimony of Begzad and the two people who claimed to see or overhear the incident did not stand up in court.

    "The key to the victory was that the jury believed the officers and rejected the testimony of Begzad, his friends, family and treating physician," Hom said Friday in a written statement. "Cases like this often turn on the credibility of witnesses."

    The dispute arose in May 2002 when a property manager for Balch Enterprises, the Hayward company that leased the Foley Street building to Begzad, called 9-1-1 to report that Begzad was threatening to kill himself and his family.

    Police Sgt. Keith Bryan, now the head of community services for the Hayward Police Department, and Officer Kenneth Hedrick, now a detective, responded to the call.

    Khawaja has said police officersspotted the religious posters and tapestries Begzad used to decorate his wall and said, "What's that garbage?"

    Police officers denied making those remarks.

    But the officers detained Begzad because of his reported suicidal remarks and transported the unwilling patient to John George Psychiatric Pavilion in San Leandro, where he spent the night
     
  5. AggieRocket

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    Gwayneco,

    Just out of curiousity, why are you so obsessed with Muslims? It is your right to be obsessed with whatever floats your boat. However, why Muslims? Did one of us serve you a bad slurpee or something? :)
     
  6. Mr. Brightside

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    I think it had something to do with Bin Laden,a pool cue, and gwayneco bending over.
     
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  7. AMS

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    do we really want to start threads about individual events that are carried out by followers of a religion... remember, each religion has its wierdos and intolerants, and christianity is larger than islam, so the number of threads we can start on that is probably gunna be larger...

    please stop the madness
     

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