[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by blazey

The media is just loads of scandal and lies most of the time. I dont think it matters if she refused to touch the book or not, the main point is is that if she refused to because of her religious beliefs, she did it out of respect for a religion native to our own country, not her own, and I think its nice that she could show that kind of respect even if it caused a problem.

I've also found that it seems they cant touch the quran or read it whilst they are menstruating, perhaps this is what she meant...

You seem to be the only person who has got hold of the right end of this particular stick Blazey.

In her eyes it wouldn't be the book that was unclean. She was showing respect to the holy book by not wishing to defile it.Not because her hands were mucky dirty but because for some reason she deemed herself to be unclean. Perhaps she had just previously packed that bikini Garinda referred to, or perhaps she was menstruating.

Whatever the reason, it was herself she regarded as not worthy of handling the religious book.

The customer herself admitted that the woman didn't actually say to her that the book was unclean. She heard the word being said (a word which normally is only used to refer to symbolic cleanliness) and then she saw the hijab and drew her own conclusions that a Muslim was calling the Bible unclean. I don't believe that the Bible is seen by Muslims as anything unclean but rather as something to be revered and respected which is exactly what she was doing.

We demand that Muslims show respect to other religions and then when one does she is hauled over the coals for it and accused of being racist and offensive.