The Los Angeles County Sheriff is Lee Baca. He is one of the backers of this organization which was inspired by brainstorming sessions on how to prevent London Tube style attacks in Los Angeles.
Now here is the part of the article that I find both funny and deeply disturbing. In Culver City is the King Fahd Mosque. It is the largest mosques in LA. It is funded by the Saudi Royal family. The following incident took place there.
At one Culver City mosque, for instance, Baca said he was given a Koran by the imam and invited to read from it during an interfaith service after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But he was approached by a man afterward who told him that non-Muslims such as him were forbidden to touch the Koran. "That's extremism at its worst," Baca said.
How in the hell are us infidels supposed to learn about his precious religion if we aren't even allow to pick up the book to read it? Talk about a chicken-n-egg situation (you know... which comes first, the chicken or the egg?). What if muslims left korans in hotel rooms like christians leave bibles? Does that mean we can't touch it?
*sigh*
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I was once told by an Arab linguist in the Air Force that to become a muslim, one only needs to say "there is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet."
By doing so, one could convert, and then not be forbidden from touching the sacred text.
Of course, one would have to question why one would convert to a religion about which one could not read its teachings...
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