الولايات المتحدة: استنكار وقف التحقيق في واقعة حرق المصحف

أعرب مسلمو ولاية "ميتشيجن" الأمريكية عن غضبهم واستيائهم عقب رفض محام الادعاء بمنطقة "إنجهام كوينتي" استمرار التحقيق في واقعة قيام بعض الأمريكيين بحرق صفحات من المصحف أمام مسجد "إيست لانسنج".

وقد زعم محام الادعاء أن هذه الواقعة الإجرامية لم تمثل خرقًا لقانون "ميتشيجن"، وأنها لم تستوف شروط اعتبارها جريمة كراهية تخضع للتحقيق, مؤكدًا أن ما قام به الأمريكي من حرق صفحات من المصحف عمل تحميه المادة الأولى من الدستور الأمريكي.

وطالب "داود وليد" ممثل مجلس العلاقات الإسلامية الأمريكية السلطات الفيدرالية بمتابعة التحقيق في هذه الجريمة، مثلما كان سيحدث إذا ما قام أحدهم بترك صليب محروق أمام كنيسة أو رسم علامة النازية على معبد لليهود, مؤكدًا أن عدم اعتبار ما حدث جريمة كراهية يبعث برسالة أنه لن يكون هناك عواقب قانونية لمن يعتدي على المسلمين بأماكن عبادتهم.

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Muslims call for federal probe in Quran burning

Local Muslim leaders are upset prosecutors won't pursue charges against a man who burned a Quran outside an East Lansing mosque.

Stuart Dunnings III, prosecuting attorney in Ingham County, said today that authorities "didn't find there was any violation of Michigan law" and that burning pages of the Quran at the Islamic Center of East Lansing in the early morning of Sept. 11 did not meet the legal requirements to file state hate-crime charges

"We don't have a hate crime. There was no threat of physical intimidation because he was the only one there (at the mosque) at the time," Dunnings told The Detroit News today.

The man's act also was protected by First Amendment rights, added Dunnings.

"It's like burning the flag," said Dunnings. "It can also fall under drunken stupidity."

Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Michigan, called on federal officials to pursue charges.

"We call on federal law enforcement authorities to investigate the burned Quran left at the mosque door as they would investigate and appropriately charge someone who would leave a burned cross at a African-American church or who left Nazi symbols at a synagogue," Walid said.

"Not to prosecute this hate crime would send a terrible message to bigots that there will be no legal repercussion against those who intimidate Muslims at their houses of worship," Walid said.

Officials at the Islamic Center said that while they "had wished from the very beginning that the individual who burnt the Quran be forgiven" he has hurt a lot of people.

"While this individual may not have broken any Michigan law, he has caused tremendous grief to a lot of people both locally and beyond our community," wrote Dr. Mahmoud Mous, president of the Islamic Society of Greater Lansing, in a press release.