[ April 19, 2024 ]
This isn’t punishment, it’s reinforcement. Whatever the Quran says about Mary, that isn’t all it says. It also says to make war against and subjugate unbelievers (9:29), to strike terror into their hearts (3:151, 8:60), that Jews and Christians are under a divine curse (9:30), to beat disobedient women (4:34), etc. To sentence these budding jihadis to read the Quran is only to ensure that they will stay on the path they’re on, and not grow in respect for unbelievers, but only increase in hatred and contempt for them.
But in Lebanon, which is increasingly under control of Muslim groups, it was unlikely that these boys would get justice anyway. Other courts might have given them money and celebrated them as heroes.
“Teenagers who desecrated a statue of Our Lady required to learn the Qurʾān as punishment,” Asia News, February 12, 2018:
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Beirut (AsiaNews/Agencies) – A Lebanese court has sentenced two teenagers to the study of the Qurʾān in order to learn what the sacred text says about Our Lady.
Judge Jocelyne Matta convicted two young Muslims, aged 17 and 18, for desecrating a statue of the Virgin in their village, Akkar district, northern Lebanon.
Ten days ago, the duo went inside a church in their predominantly Christian village, where they threw the statue to the ground, kiss it and carried out lewd acts. The two recorded their stunt, and posted it on WhatsApp.
Alerted, the police eventually took them into custody and brought them before a prosecutor, who turned them over to a magistrate.
Faced with the case, the judge cited a surah (a chapter in the Qurʾān), ‘The family of Imran’, in which Mary is defined as one of God’s purest creatures. She ruled that the two teenagers had to read, learn, and recite the verses in question.
The accused were later seen in the courthouse in Tripoli trying to learn the sacred passages in front of juvenile officers under close police watch. After purging their “sentence”, they expressed their remorse to the magistrate.
This is the first time that a Lebanese judge issued a “pedagogical” ruling rather than impose a prison sentence, taking advantage of article 111 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which authorises examining magistrates to replace a custodial sentence with a commensurate one.
The decision was welcomed in various political and religious circles. Prime Minister Saad Hariri described the ruling on twitter as “a summit in justice and teaching common concepts between Muslims and Christians”….
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30 Comments
6 years ago
Kid Learns to hate infidels from koran and destroys infidel statue. Gets punished and made to read the same koran !
Here’s some great news from fast turning Jihadi hellhole Australia . Judge bans Muslima from court for wearing the Burkha and Left/Liberal pro-jihadis howl in protest http://bit.ly/2nRdtgd
6 years ago
islam, same as it ever was.
6 years ago
Just another angle. In Lebanon the authorities, whether justified or not, are not at war with their faith. Here in America, as often as not, one can expect to face a secular commie judge who not only hates religion, but hates you for practicing it, and is eager to tell you, for instance, who you can bake a cake for.
6 years ago
This is ironic. Among the many reasons for knowing that the Quran is a fraud are the so called “dark spots” – texts that make no sense, many of them in a book that often claims of itself that it is clear and written is pure Arabic – two clear falsehoods. Sura 19 about Mary, or Maryam, is an example. Here Mary is very concerned that her son will be regarded as illegitimate, but the reassurance (verse 24) is nonsensical:
“And he [Jesus] said to her from beneath: ‘Do not grieve. Your Lord has provided a brook at your feet.”
Besides have an infant talking, having a brook (or “rivulet” in some translations) is hardly a help. In Syro-Aramaic, however, the verse reads:
“Then he [Jesus] said to her after giving birth: ‘Do not be sad, for the Lord has made your birth legitimate.’”
— Pressburg, Norbert G.. What the Modern Martyr Should Know: 72 Grapes and not a single virgin. (p. 16).
6 years ago
Reply to
Canto28
Islamic eschatology is a photo negative of the Christian understanding. Their Mahdi is our Beast etc. However what would one expect from a Satanic counterfeit?
6 years ago
Oh just some rambunctious youngsters out being mischievous. Memorizing the Koran should put them on the straight and narrow…>snerk <
6 years ago
Reply to
MAS
Again read the article, the part about the Virgin Mary being the most revered in the Quran. Folks read with some comprehension so far all these posts are rating zero.
6 years ago
Reply to
MAS
Speaking to Lebanese French-language daily L’Orient le Jour,
Mgr Georges Abou Jaoudé, Maronite bishop of Tripoli, praised the
decision because “it raises awareness among young people, whose behavior often shows ignorance.” “And [mention] when the angels said, ‘O Mary, indeed Allah has
chosen you and purified you and chosen you above the women of the
worlds’,” Al-Omran [3:42
“And [mention] when the angels said, ‘O Mary, indeed Allah has
chosen you and purified you and chosen you above the women of the
worlds’,” Al-Omran [3:42
“A
salute to judge of investigations in North of Lebanon chief Jocelyn
Matta. Her ruling against the three young men in Virgin Mary’s case, and
sentencing them to memorize the Holy Quran’s Surat Al-Omran, is the
epitome of justice and promotes co-existence between Christians and
Muslims.”
A message of co-existence
“We
congratulate the Lebanese on having judges who use the law as a mean to
guide and rehabilitate rather than punish. Judge Jocelyn Matta is a
role model when it comes to this. Her ruling in this case stresses the
need for co-existence and calls on everyone to respect freedom of belief
and thought.”
Virgin Mary is highly esteemed in Islam
Even though it might be unknown to some, both Virgin Mary and Jesus are highly regarded in Islam.
The Virgin Mary is the only woman mentioned by name in the Qur’an and she is among only eight people to have a Quranic chapter named after them.
And
though Islam does not consider Jesus a deity nor the son of God, which
are arguably the central tenets of Christianity, it does hold Christ in very high esteem.
He
is regarded as Prophet Muhammad’s precursor and one of God’s most
prominent messengers. The religion considers him a Messiah (The Savior)
and Muslims believe Prophet Muhammad came to complete Jesus’ message,
rather than to refute it.
6 years ago
Reply to
farflung
Islam believes that their Jesus didn’t die for our sins on the cross but was caught up into heaven alive. That he will return to support the Mahdi and set Christians right about who Jeshua really was. In other words just as we would expect from the false prophet and Anti-Christ of Revelation. Holding Jesus as only human and not as the redeemer God is hardly “high esteem”, more like blasphemy. But what else would we expect from a lying murder cult like Islam? They act just like their daddy, Satan…
6 years ago
Reply to
MAS
Great you have posted something of relevant value, not like those that over post with stupid remarks for up votes.
6 years ago
Reply to
farflung
“Muslims believe Prophet Muhammad came to complete Jesus’ message, rather than to refute it”. Then why do muslims murder Christians so often?
6 years ago
If discussing, debating and questioning islam were a common thing, there would be no islam, as it comes out heavily on the side of stupid when examined.
6 years ago
Will this “punishment” not simply make them even more violent in the future?
6 years ago
What a load of crap…That’s not punishment…All moslems are made to read and study the Quran from a very early age It’s a condition of staying alive for these S.O.Bs.
6 years ago
Want to really punish them? Force them to learn the Bible.
6 years ago
Learning the Quran? The Lebanese don’t have a law against cruel and unusual punishment?
6 years ago
They don’t WANT to punish these little S-heads.
F- pisslam.
6 years ago
This took place in the North Governance. Saad Hariri is a Muslim, and found it a good expression by the Magistrate , who was a woman with , in my opinion was wise beyond her years, Look at what just occurred, a “WOMAN”, maybe a Christian, maybe a Muslim, sentenced two Muslim boys. Think on that for a moment. Lebanon, torn for centuries, now a small burst of light “The just man shall fluorish like a palm tree,
like a Cedar of Lebanon shall he grow.”
Psalm 92:12
6 years ago
Guess the queran needs reinforcement. They must not have done a good enough job the first time. Now they’ll know what else to destroy, and do it better.
6 years ago
Lebanon has sunk into the muslum morass.
