Girl Arrested For Burning Koran

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A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred after allegedly burning an English language version of the Koran.

The 15-year-old, who lives in the West Midlands, allegedly posted the video, filmed two weeks ago on her school premises, on Facebook.

The video was reported to the school and subsequently removed, police said.

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.

It is understood that the group who published that version of the Koran have since been to the school to talk to pupils.

'Sacred thing'Catherine Heseltine, chief executive officer of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee, said burning the Koran was one of the most offensive acts to Muslims that she could imagine.

She said: "The Koran is the most sacred thing to over a billion Muslims worldwide."

"You can see that in the way Muslims treat the Koran, washing before touching it and in many Muslim homes you will find it on the top shelf above all other books and we will never destroy the Koranic texts."

"We believe it is the word of God. God's guidance for us in this life," she added.

Bob Badham, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council cabinet member for education, said he had visited the school and believed the atmosphere was generally good among pupils.

He added that he did not believe there was a "deeper problem" in the area.

[VanHelsingh]

Whatever you may think about Islam and its teachings, this kind of behaviour is absolutely terrible. I can imagine how hurt we would be if someone burnt the Sikh scriptures. The problem is we HAVE had our holy scriptures treated this way in the past.

[Khalasthan86]

Whatever you may think about Islam and its teachings, this kind of behaviour is absolutely terrible. I can imagine how hurt we would be if someone burnt the Sikh scriptures. The problem is we HAVE had our holy scriptures treated this way in the past.

Please do not compare the Koran to our Living Guroo, ok?

Koran is a book.

Guroo Granth Sahib Jee is our master.

A book can not be a master.

Bhul Chuk Maaf

[VanHelsingh]

@ RSingh - 2 + 2 = 5? My word some people on here do more harm than good....

To the outsider (who is neither Sikh or Muslim) they are both books. To you or I, SGGS Ji is NOT a book. Do you deny that a decent Muslim would be upset if the Koran is burnt? Whatever we think of it (personally I don't harbour any positivity towards it but understand its relevance for Muslims), it is holy to the people to whom it belongs to. By implying that "Koran is only a book so its okay to burn" is absolutely shameful. That is, in essence, what you're saying. Where is your tolerance?

[KhalistaniGunMan]

To burn the Koran is major paap...at the end of the day if you follow the quran or not...it praises waheguru countless times in the quran...burning it is an insult to waheguru

[thesoldier]

I am not siding with anyone on the topic, but the trouble is too many sikhs seem to think islam is a religion just like sikhism. To tell you the truth in many respect islam is the opposite of what sikhism teaches.

I know many sikhs will not agree with what i am saying but to understand islam [The real islam - and not the lies that muslims have spread all over their websites, their false translated english qurans]

Watch this guys youtube channel with a open mind, he is a arab christian (ex-muslim).

http://www.youtube.com/allahaleg#p/u

A good start would be this video, how muslims are allowed to lie, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXs5h9HUQz8.

Just remember how muslims in the past swore on the oath of the quran, that they will not touch the sikhs that were inside chamkaur sahib fort while fighting moghals. They lied to us, because the truth is its not a sin for muslims to lie to non-muslims. watch the video i pasted above.

[VanHelsingh]

I completely understand KhalistaniGunMan's view, but I also appreciate the points made by thesoldier. I guess what I was trying to say is "Let's not burn ANYBODY'S holy scriptures". And yes I know that SGGS Ji is not a 'holy book' and it is SO much more that words cannot describe, but that's why I'm using the term 'scriptures' instead of 'book' to make a point in this instance. So in conclusion (:D) let's not advocate the burning of another religion's scriptures, no matter how much we disagree with that religion's sentiments.