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Hoax: The Holy Quran will be burnt on next Saturday

Last week I received a chain email from a friend who is in habit of forwarding number of such emails everyday. I usually don’t go through such emails but its title made me read it. Few hours later I saw a note on Facebook replicating content of that email and expressing “great concern” on this horrible act, going to happen Next Saturday.

Here is the email:

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The Holy Quran will be burnt on next Saturday !!!!!!!

Carrefour refused to boycott Israeli/American/Denmark Products. KFC ( Kentucky Fried Chicken), McDonalds, Hardees, Burger King, Pizza Hutt & Starbucks have decided to buy Denmark Products to save their losses.

Boycott Denmark Products and Circulate this news to whoever you can!!!!!

Denmark wants to Burn the Holy Quran on next Saturday in the large grounds in Copenhagen (capital city of Denmark ), in reply to the Islamic Boycott on their products.

Please let’s get together to boycott their products, and pray to Allah Almighty to show them the result of their intentions, which will be a lesson for the whole world.

Forward this to as many friends as you can.

السبت القادم سوف يحرق القران….. ادارة كارفورترفض المقاطعة وكنتاكي _ ماكدونالز _ هارديز _ برجركنج _ وبيتزا هت- وستار بوكس قرروا شراء المنتجات الدنمركية لتعويض خسائر الدنمارك قاطعوهم وانشر الخبر لان الدنمارك تريد حرق المصحف الشريف يوم السبت القادم في الساحة الكبرى في كوبنهاجن العاصمة كوبنهاجن ردآ على المقاطعة الإسلامية أرجوكم وحدوا الدعاء بأن يرسل الله عليهم آيه من آياته ليكونوا عبرة للعالمين (لاتدعها تقف عندك بل أرسلها

لا تمسحها ولا تغلق الصفحة امانة فى ذمتك ستسئل عنها يوم القيامة

لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله

لاإله ألا انت سبحانك إنى كنت من الظالمين لم يدع بها مسلم فى شئ الا وقد استجاب الله له. ……..الدعاء للراسل حتى ترد عليك الملائكة

Denmark is Loosing

Please don’t let this mail stop in your pc.

Assalaamu Alaikum,

Great News

Hope you all know about the Denmark newspaper who made fun of our holy Prophet PBUH and till now they do not regret… let us make them regret for good…The Danish Ambassador, Prime Minister and Denmark National Channel; all are trying to do something just to stop the boycott by Muslims since last month through which their losses have reached 4 billion Euro. If we continue to boycott Denmark products 7 months more it could reach around 80 billion Euro’s loss. Believers do not let this message stop in your PC. Please forward this text to as many Muslims as possible …… Can’t u spare 15 minutes in order to spread this message among Muslims …..

ASAP? REMEMBER THE PROPHET (SAW) MIGHT ASK YOU ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT,’ WHAT DID YOU DO WHEN THEY MADE FUN OF ME? HOW DID YOU DEFEND ME?’

7-up drink, LEGO, Cadbury chocolates, Hall Chewing gums or any product with barcode no. starting with 57

Please convince all Muslims to circulate this to Muslim ummah to ban Danish made products.

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Now, you can see that it is quite emotional email, stating all the ‘right’ reasons for Muslims to forward this to their social network, everybody thinking they are doing a noble deed for Islam and the Prophet (saw). However, only exceptional few know that this email is just a spam / hoax / urban legend, with not a fraction of truth in it. And, we all are just been taken for a ride.

Here is my response:

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It is our moral responsibility to check source of any news before spreading it to our social network, otherwise we will be supporting the spammers and hoaxers in their attempts to spread panic and chaos.

In past few days, I have seen above news being emailed and posted across the web. So far, nobody has tried to verify the source or even get a decent reference url. We are all just forwarding it to our friends and family, thinking we are doing a good deed. However, we are not.

The news says ‘Holy Quran will be burnt on next Saturday’, has anyone checked which Saturday will it be? February 28? March 7? or later? No one knows for sure.

I did some Google about this and, to rain on this parade, found that this hoax is going around for long time. Check following links, all claiming the incident to happen ‘next Saturday’ and Alhamdulillah, nothing of the sort has happened so far.

– http://tinyurl.com/d7ahev
– http://www.turntoislam.com/forum/showthread.php?p=297544
– http://tinyurl.com/daxdh7

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I request you all to be mindful of what you disseminate to your social network, through emails, SMS, Facebook, Twitter etc. Let’s first authenticate the source and then spread the news.

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29 responses to “Hoax: The Holy Quran will be burnt on next Saturday”

  1. Mohamed Avatar
    Mohamed

    more links for educating Brindley and the likes:

    http://www.1001inventions.com/
    http://www.twf.org/Library/Renaissance.html

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  2. Mohamed Avatar
    Mohamed

    Brindley,

    I will just quote Prince Charles:
    The surprise, ladies and gentlemen, is the extent to which Islam has been a part of Europe for so long, first in Spain, then in the Balkans, and the extent to which it has contributed so much towards the civilisation which we all too often think of, wrongly, as entirely Western. Islam is part of our past and our present, in all fields of human endeavour. It has helped to create modern Europe. It is part of our own inheritance, not a thing apart.

    I suggest you get some education on the subject.

    – Peace (Salaam)
    http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=675

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  3. Anas Ijaz Avatar
    Anas Ijaz

    Here are two links about that news.

    http://www.turks.us/article.php?story=20060205004132722

    http://www.nowpublic.com/danish_muslims_warn_of_burning_quran_in_planned_rally?comment_sort=recommended

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  4. Talal Bin Ghizal Avatar
    Talal Bin Ghizal

    This is not the question how much.maximum you can participate ?
    the question is how less/minimum you can do ?

    we ‘MUST’ boycott all that we can afford to, if we can’t afford then don’t do it… simple isn’t ?

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  5. abdul Avatar
    abdul

    is that true…?
    i dun think so… otherwise it wud have been displayed on mediaa… coz if it is true then ofcourse its not such a thing that can be neglected by media…

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  6. Kamran Avatar
    Kamran

    Brindley
    March 7th, 2009 20:16 GMT
    If you are truly boycotting western products why dont you include the Internet, Windows, Apple, Google, Windows, Skype, Email, Outlook express, SMS and the list is endless. If you really want to convince Allah on the day of judgement you should boycott all those mentioned above and many more, for example, all arilines., motor cars, busses and lorries and vans. Finally you will end up with a camel in the middle of the desert. If you continue to use all those products, Allah will be very angry at you and send you to eternal hellfire. Thank you. Peace to all

    Man Brindley… why dont u understand the talk was not of to boycott western products..the talk is of boycotting DANISH products,..why are u mixing these two…the thing is…if sumthing is said about…our Prophet(pbuh) ..its called Freedom of speech..if sumthings written about…Jesus(pbuh)..then its Blasphemy…what kind of an equality is this..??

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  7. Awais Naseer Keyani Avatar
    Awais Naseer Keyani

    I also received this mail but I knew that there’s nothing like fact in it. We receive tons of SMSs, emails etc claiming Hadiths and other such things with an emotional messege in the end…. and we forward them without authentication! by doing so, we just do a sin of spreading a rumor instead of a virtue!!!! As the Holy Prophet (SAW) said: “If a person forwards everything which he hears (without authentication) then this thing is enough to prove him a lair”

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  8. Shakir Lakhani Avatar
    Shakir Lakhani

    For some reason, most Pakistani muslims react negatively when they read something like this. We should certainly boycott products made in Denmark particularly those which are available from other sources, but there’s no need to attack and damage property in Pakistan, as happened when the cartoons were published. There are civilized ways to protest, but our mullahs and their followers prefer violence.

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  9. Brindley Avatar
    Brindley

    If you are truly boycotting western products why dont you include the Internet, Windows, Apple, Google, Windows, Skype, Email, Outlook express, SMS and the list is endless. If you really want to convince Allah on the day of judgement you should boycott all those mentioned above and many more, for example, all arilines., motor cars, busses and lorries and vans. Finally you will end up with a camel in the middle of the desert. If you continue to use all those products, Allah will be very angry at you and send you to eternal hellfire. Thank you. Peace to all

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  10. Kashif H Avatar
    Kashif H

    I think this mail should be sent officially to all head of state of Islamic countries who refuse to wake up from the slumber

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