Drunk Man Arrested After Urinating In New York Mosque

[شمله ور خراساني]

Omar Rivera of the Bronx was arrested and charged with criminal trespassing last night, after he entered a Queens mosque drunk and urinated inside, the NYPD confirmed to TPM.
Mustapha Sadouki told the New York Post, which first reported the incident, that Rivera entered the Al-Iman Mosque "with a beer bottle in his hands, clearly very intoxicated."
The Post reported that Rivera also shouted anti-Muslim slurs, but the NYPD did not confirm that fact to TPM. Police told TPM that Rivera was charged with criminal trespass, but would not disclose if he was still being held.
"He stuck up his middle finger and cursed at everyone," Sadouki told the Post.
The incident at the Queens mosque is apparently unrelated to a much-reported on incident Tuesday night, when 21-year-old Michael Enright was arrested for allegedly stabbing a cab driver, Ahmed Sharif, after asking Sharif if he was Muslim.




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[Laila]

Do people these days not have any sort of respect towards other religions. Jeez. If i was a male, you dont see me doing that in a church or synagogue.

And it is trespassing.

[BehavedMaseed]

Muslim brothers jailed for torching Christian church in Malaysia

Firebombing took place at height of a dispute over whether non-Muslims could use the word Allah to refer to God

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A Malaysian policeman at the damaged church the two men have been found guilty of settting fire to. Photograph: Stringer/EPA

A Malaysian court sentenced two Muslim brothers to five years in prison today for torching a Christian church during the height of a dispute over whether non-Muslims could use the word Allah to refer to God.

The firebombing was the first in an unprecedented string of arson attacks and vandalism at places of worship last January that threatened to undo decades of religious harmony in the Muslim-majority country. Eleven churches, a Sikh temple, three mosques and two Muslim prayer rooms were assaulted before the tensions abated.

Two ethnic Malay brothers in their 20s were arrested and placed on trial for the 8 January attack, which partially gutted a Protestant church. The attack, which did not injure anyone, came days after some Muslims were angered by a court verdict that allowed Christians to use the word Allah in Malay-language publications.
Komathy Suppiah, a Kuala Lumpur district court judge, convicted both suspects of "mischief by fire" with the intention of destroying a place of worship. They had faced a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, but Suppiah sentenced them to five years each.

"You have shamed the society and country ... The message from this court must be loud and clear: Don't play with fire," Suppiah told the men.

However, she allowed them to remain free on bail until their appeal could be heard.
Both men had pleaded innocent. They testified that they were at a restaurant when they heard people planning to attack the nearby church. They said they went to the church and saw unidentified men smashing its window and setting it ablaze.
One of the suspects, Raja Muhammad Faizal Raja Ibrahim, 25, was detained by police after he sought medical treatment for burn injuries. He told investigators that he suffered the burns at a barbecue gathering after he and his brother, Raja Muhammad Idzham, 23, left the church area.

Judge Suppiah ruled that their testimony was riddled with inconsistencies.
The Reverend Hermen Shastri, an official with the Council of Churches of Malaysia, praised the court's decision.

"This serves as a reminder to all citizens of the country that violence against religious places – be it whatever religion – will not be tolerated," Shastri told the Associated Press. "This is a clear signal that basically the majority of Malaysians are peace-loving."

Several other suspects have also been arrested in connection to various attacks last January that caused mostly minor damage at places of worship nationwide.
The attacks subsided after the government bolstered security and urged people not to undermine amicable ties between Malay Muslims, who account for nearly two-thirds of Malaysia's 28 million people, and minority ethnic Chinese and Indians who mainly practice Buddhism, Christianity or Hinduism.

Tensions initially rose after The Herald, the newspaper of the Roman Catholic church in Malaysia, challenged a government ban on the use of the word Allah in its Malay-language publication.

A court ruling granted the paper the right to use the word. Some Muslims insist that using Allah in Christian literature might confuse Muslims and tempt them to convert. The government has appealed the verdict.

Minorities sometimes complain their religious rights are not respected by the government, which denies any bias.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...ed-fire-church

[Laila]

^ See, and that person didnt do right.

To me, its not whether a Christian did it to a Islamic mosque, or a Muslim did it to a Christian church. Its disrespecting a religion, no matter if you hate it or not. And its against the law, trespassing. There you go.

[IamDZJ]

i have a question...
we are all aware of the fact that most of the members and viewers of this forum are muslims rather than non muslims..
WHAT IS THE POINT OF HIGHLIGHTING THIS TYPE OF NEWS? we all know it's wrong so clearly the message behind it is not that. do you want to provoke us to seek revenge or hate non muslims?
isn't this act similar to walking around and distributing fliers of the news of your wife getting raped the morning after? i m sorry, i don't mean to offend any one or be sarcastic. at least not this one time. i m simply lost!

[شمله ور خراساني]

i have a question...
we are all aware of the fact that most of the members and viewers of this forum are muslims rather than non muslims..
WHAT IS THE POINT OF HIGHLIGHTING THIS TYPE OF NEWS? we all know it's wrong so clearly the message behind it is not that. do you want to provoke us to seek revenge or hate non muslims?
isn't this act similar to walking around and distributing fliers of the news of your wife getting raped the morning after? i m sorry, i don't mean to offend any one or be sarcastic. at least not this one time. i m simply lost!

You are making all the wrong assumptions.

We are Muslims. And as Muslims we are suppose to be concerned with the state of our fellow Muslims wherever they are.

And the fact that there is rising islamophobia in USA is a matter of grave concern for us all. Because there are hundreds of thousands of Muslims in USA.

And least what we could do is to share the news (bad news) with one another.

As a Muslim you are suppose to have sympathy for your fellow Muslims.