Post by Admin on Dec 9, 2015 1:31:39 GMT
:::::STOP:::: :::::HEADS UP:::::: (No pun intended)
:::::::LAW ENFORCEMENT: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED:::::::
Scientology is responsible for this disgraceful act.
The severed Goat's Head incident (below the pig head article) happened on April 10, 2013 just before the
Boston Marathon Bombing: April 15, 2013.
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Severed pig’s head thrown at Philadelphia mosque door
By Elahe Izadi December 8
www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/12/08/severed-pigs-head-thrown-at-philadelphia-mosque-door/
Authorities are investigating an incident at a Philadelphia mosque after early-morning prayers Monday were disrupted by the discovery of a severed pig’s head on the mosque’s doorsteps.
A spokesman for the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society said surveillance cameras captured video of a red pickup truck that drove by the building twice Sunday night; during its second pass, an item was seen thrown out of the vehicle’s window and landing at the door of the mosque. Philadelphia police told The Washington Post that the object was thrown from the passenger side of the truck, and that the vehicle’s occupants are not visible in the video footage.
A worker opening the mosque — which is in the same building as an Islamic school and the Arab American Development Corp. — found the pig’s head around 6 a.m. Monday.
A mosque spokesman called it a “hate motivated” act. Pork is considered non-halal, or food that is not religiously sanctioned by Islamic law.
“It’s just a pig’s head — that’s not a big deal; but it does send a message,” said mosque spokesman and Arab American Development Corp. Director Marwan Kreidie. “I think people are worried that if they do a pig’s head, they could do something more violent in the future.”
Kreidie said he reported the incident to local and federal authorities.
When asked whether they were investigating it as a possible hate incident or crime, a Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson said: “As of now, it’s under investigation with an unknown motive. Once that determination has been made, I will follow up and let you know.”
“This vandalism of a sacred space comes in the midst of an election cycle that has given us the most public attacks on an American minority in living memory,” Jacob Bender, executive director of the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said in a statement Tuesday. “Attacks upon American Muslims should be, and must be, the responsibility of all Americans to condemn.”
Police interviewed potential witnesses on Monday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
“We’ve got to be involved,” officer Pete Berndlmaier told the newspaper. “If they get away doing something like that, they are going to up the ante.”
Philadelphia Mayor-elect Jim Kenney called on the people of his city to “join me in rejecting this despicable act and supporting our Muslim neighbors.”
“The bigotry that desecrated Al-Aqsa mosque today has no place in Philadelphia,” Kenney said in a statement Monday.
The incident could be a violation of the city’s ordinance on ethnic intimidation and institutional vandalism, Rue Landau, executive director of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, told the Inquirer.
“It is a heinous act that sends a message to Arab American communities that they are not wanted here in Philadelphia, and that could not be further from the truth,” Landau said.
The complex will be under increased police protection, Kreidie said.
A manager at Philadelphia’s Al-Aqsa Islamic Society said the mosque received a voicemail on Nov. 14 that alluded to the Paris attacks, according to police. “Are you happy about what happened in France?” the male voice stated. The persona also said, “God is a pig!” and “God is Pork!”
Kreidie doesn’t believe anyone from the surrounding community was responsible for throwing the pig’s head. This particular mosque hasn’t been targeted in the past, even after 9/11, Kreidie said. But national discourse about Muslims has become increasingly hostile lately.
Indeed, many Muslims in America report feeling or experiencing growing anti-Muslim sentiment, particularly since the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. That rhetoric, Muslims say, has also taken center stage in the political arena: On Monday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”
Trump has previously called for surveillance of some mosques and requiring Muslims to register with the government.
“There’s a constant climate of insinuation of terrorism and disloyalty that creates this pervasive sense of being an outsider,” Haroon Moghul, a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding in Washington, told The Post last week.
There have been other stories of severed pig heads being left at mosques. In 2006, someone threw a severed pig’s head into a Maine mosque as a group of men prayed inside. The suspect said it was a prank, but the incident rattled the Lewiston Somali community.
And on Sunday, a pig’s head was reportedly found in the bathroom of a university mosque in Australia.
“A lot of people think it’s kryptonite to Muslims and it’s not,” said Kreidie, the Philadelphia mosque spokesman. “It’s just degrading and humiliating to people, and you know why it’s being done.”
This post has been updated.
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GOAT's HEAD Delivered to Wrigley Field
www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/goat-head-wrigley-field-chicago-cubs-202436031.html
Dead goats were found hanging on the Harry Caray statue outside the field in 2007 and in 2009.
The Chicago Cubs found a severed goat's head at Wrigley Field on Wednesday, and they're treating the cruel reference to a longtime curse as a crime.
Chicago police were called in to investigate after a man stopped the white van he was driving, walked a box to a security entrance at Gate K on Waveland Avenue and wordlessly put it down, Cubs spokesman Julian Green said.
Security workers opened the box, addressed to team owner Tom Ricketts, and discovered the severed head. The team immediately called police.
Green said Thursday that police were given surveillance video, and that he doesn't know why someone would deliver a goat's head. Police did not comment on who might have left the goat head or a possible motive — other than to refer to the head in a brief statement as an "intimidating package."
Cubs manager Dale Sveum had a theory, of sorts.
"Obviously, it's just an unfortunate fan doing something pretty stupid," he said.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday he has contacted Ricketts about the head.
"There's nothing else to say, it speaks for itself, it's wrong to do," Emanuel said. "I did call Tom last night, and said obviously that the police need to do something, we'll be on it."
The delivery comes in the midst of the organization's ongoing negotiations with the city and small business owners regarding a a five-year, $300 million plan to renovate the Friendly Confines.
The Billy Goat Curse dates back to Oct. 6, 1945, when tavern owner Billy Sianis bought a box seat for his goat, Murphy, for Game 4 of the World Series at Wrigley Field to help promote his establishment. When he was ordered to remove the goat, he claimed to place a curse on the team that would prevent it from ever hosting another World Series at Wrigley Field.
Dead goats were found hanging on the Harry Caray statue outside the field in 2007 and in 2009.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Source: www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/goat-head-wrigley-field-chicago-cubs-202436031.html#ixzz3tmYej1Jh
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:::::::LAW ENFORCEMENT: IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED:::::::
Scientology is responsible for this disgraceful act.
The severed Goat's Head incident (below the pig head article) happened on April 10, 2013 just before the
Boston Marathon Bombing: April 15, 2013.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Severed pig’s head thrown at Philadelphia mosque door
By Elahe Izadi December 8
www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/12/08/severed-pigs-head-thrown-at-philadelphia-mosque-door/
Authorities are investigating an incident at a Philadelphia mosque after early-morning prayers Monday were disrupted by the discovery of a severed pig’s head on the mosque’s doorsteps.
A spokesman for the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society said surveillance cameras captured video of a red pickup truck that drove by the building twice Sunday night; during its second pass, an item was seen thrown out of the vehicle’s window and landing at the door of the mosque. Philadelphia police told The Washington Post that the object was thrown from the passenger side of the truck, and that the vehicle’s occupants are not visible in the video footage.
A worker opening the mosque — which is in the same building as an Islamic school and the Arab American Development Corp. — found the pig’s head around 6 a.m. Monday.
A mosque spokesman called it a “hate motivated” act. Pork is considered non-halal, or food that is not religiously sanctioned by Islamic law.
“It’s just a pig’s head — that’s not a big deal; but it does send a message,” said mosque spokesman and Arab American Development Corp. Director Marwan Kreidie. “I think people are worried that if they do a pig’s head, they could do something more violent in the future.”
Kreidie said he reported the incident to local and federal authorities.
When asked whether they were investigating it as a possible hate incident or crime, a Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson said: “As of now, it’s under investigation with an unknown motive. Once that determination has been made, I will follow up and let you know.”
“This vandalism of a sacred space comes in the midst of an election cycle that has given us the most public attacks on an American minority in living memory,” Jacob Bender, executive director of the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said in a statement Tuesday. “Attacks upon American Muslims should be, and must be, the responsibility of all Americans to condemn.”
Police interviewed potential witnesses on Monday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
“We’ve got to be involved,” officer Pete Berndlmaier told the newspaper. “If they get away doing something like that, they are going to up the ante.”
Philadelphia Mayor-elect Jim Kenney called on the people of his city to “join me in rejecting this despicable act and supporting our Muslim neighbors.”
“The bigotry that desecrated Al-Aqsa mosque today has no place in Philadelphia,” Kenney said in a statement Monday.
The incident could be a violation of the city’s ordinance on ethnic intimidation and institutional vandalism, Rue Landau, executive director of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, told the Inquirer.
“It is a heinous act that sends a message to Arab American communities that they are not wanted here in Philadelphia, and that could not be further from the truth,” Landau said.
The complex will be under increased police protection, Kreidie said.
A manager at Philadelphia’s Al-Aqsa Islamic Society said the mosque received a voicemail on Nov. 14 that alluded to the Paris attacks, according to police. “Are you happy about what happened in France?” the male voice stated. The persona also said, “God is a pig!” and “God is Pork!”
Kreidie doesn’t believe anyone from the surrounding community was responsible for throwing the pig’s head. This particular mosque hasn’t been targeted in the past, even after 9/11, Kreidie said. But national discourse about Muslims has become increasingly hostile lately.
Indeed, many Muslims in America report feeling or experiencing growing anti-Muslim sentiment, particularly since the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. That rhetoric, Muslims say, has also taken center stage in the political arena: On Monday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”
Trump has previously called for surveillance of some mosques and requiring Muslims to register with the government.
“There’s a constant climate of insinuation of terrorism and disloyalty that creates this pervasive sense of being an outsider,” Haroon Moghul, a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding in Washington, told The Post last week.
There have been other stories of severed pig heads being left at mosques. In 2006, someone threw a severed pig’s head into a Maine mosque as a group of men prayed inside. The suspect said it was a prank, but the incident rattled the Lewiston Somali community.
And on Sunday, a pig’s head was reportedly found in the bathroom of a university mosque in Australia.
“A lot of people think it’s kryptonite to Muslims and it’s not,” said Kreidie, the Philadelphia mosque spokesman. “It’s just degrading and humiliating to people, and you know why it’s being done.”
This post has been updated.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
GOAT's HEAD Delivered to Wrigley Field
www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/goat-head-wrigley-field-chicago-cubs-202436031.html
Dead goats were found hanging on the Harry Caray statue outside the field in 2007 and in 2009.
The Chicago Cubs found a severed goat's head at Wrigley Field on Wednesday, and they're treating the cruel reference to a longtime curse as a crime.
Chicago police were called in to investigate after a man stopped the white van he was driving, walked a box to a security entrance at Gate K on Waveland Avenue and wordlessly put it down, Cubs spokesman Julian Green said.
Security workers opened the box, addressed to team owner Tom Ricketts, and discovered the severed head. The team immediately called police.
Green said Thursday that police were given surveillance video, and that he doesn't know why someone would deliver a goat's head. Police did not comment on who might have left the goat head or a possible motive — other than to refer to the head in a brief statement as an "intimidating package."
Cubs manager Dale Sveum had a theory, of sorts.
"Obviously, it's just an unfortunate fan doing something pretty stupid," he said.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday he has contacted Ricketts about the head.
"There's nothing else to say, it speaks for itself, it's wrong to do," Emanuel said. "I did call Tom last night, and said obviously that the police need to do something, we'll be on it."
The delivery comes in the midst of the organization's ongoing negotiations with the city and small business owners regarding a a five-year, $300 million plan to renovate the Friendly Confines.
The Billy Goat Curse dates back to Oct. 6, 1945, when tavern owner Billy Sianis bought a box seat for his goat, Murphy, for Game 4 of the World Series at Wrigley Field to help promote his establishment. When he was ordered to remove the goat, he claimed to place a curse on the team that would prevent it from ever hosting another World Series at Wrigley Field.
Dead goats were found hanging on the Harry Caray statue outside the field in 2007 and in 2009.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Source: www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/goat-head-wrigley-field-chicago-cubs-202436031.html#ixzz3tmYej1Jh
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