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Teen Grabs Olympic Torch Screaming 'Allahu Akbar'

Torch bearer Anna Skora manages to hang on

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 20, 2012 3:00 PM CDT

(Newser) – Talk about wanting a spot in the Olympic limelight. A teenager ran out on a road in Maidstone, England, today and tried to wrestle away the Olympic torch from its bearer while shouting "Allahu Akbar"—Arabic for "God is Great," reports the Evening Standard. Torch guards managed to drag him off the road, where he was arrested "within seconds," police say. Torch bearer Anna Skora stayed upright through the ordeal and kept smiling during her leg of the relay, the Daily Mail reports.

Joe Juneau and PM Harper at the Olympic Torch Relay ceremony in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Ottawa, December 12, 2009.
Joe Juneau and PM Harper at the Olympic Torch Relay ceremony in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Ottawa, December 12, 2009.   (Shutterstock)
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A teenager tries to wrestle away the Olympic torch from bearer Anna Skora in Maidstone, England.   (YouTube)

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kccarmea
Jul 24, 2012 11:39 PM CDT
USLady you are an ignorant sow! I can tell you are an insane Christian from the southern states. Just so you know, your "god" is as real as theirs. There's no such thing as a "real living god". What you said was offensive to Muslims so I hope I have offended you and your "god" with a little "g" :) Just so you know, your comment forced me to sign up for this site just so i could comment on this. 
USLady
Jul 22, 2012 1:05 PM CDT
Also Allah their idol god is known to them as the great deceiver! so why did 'nt  they yell that one out! huh!
USLady
Jul 22, 2012 1:03 PM CDT
You know here we go again,The person might as well been yelling am a loser!  its a dead rock image! moon god! so please do not cap the G on their phrase,it is a small g,meaning moon god,not a real living God,okay i will place the facts.i hate doing this.But people seem to think they are speaking of the same God,nope. oh,and a muslim said this was all correct also. THE TRUTH ABOUT ALLAH     Research concludes from a diversity of solid historical sources that: 1. "Allah" was the name of a demonic moon god prominent in that tribal group well before Muhammad was even born. 2. When Muhammad received his "revelations" he himself considered them likely  to be from demons. His cohorts, friends, relatives, persuaded him otherwise and essentially  encouraged him to co-opt "allah" as the sole surviving tribal god into a new religion AS A MEANS OF EMOTIONALLY ENERGIZING MASSES OF PEOPLE TOWARD POLITICAL AND GEOGRAPHIC CONQUEST. He thought that was a great idea. 3. BEFORE Muhammad WAS BORN, IN THE NAME OF THE DEMONIC MOON GOD ALLAH: A) running 7 times around the temple of the moon god called the Kaaba. B) stones were thrown at the devil. C) a crescent was a key religious symbol. D) praying toward Mecca five times a day. E) kissing the black stone. F) killing an animal in sacrifice to the moon god. G) fasting for the month which begins and ends with the crescent moon. But essentially "Allah" is NOT the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The historical record - FROM ISLAMIC SOURCES - is quite clear. There's nothing iffy or fuzzy about it. The sources are not celebrated these days in Islamic circles for obvious reasons. But they have been considered accurate  and authoritative for many hundreds of years. "Allah Akbar!" means Allah ak bar which at its Semitic root means:  God is without a son or rendered more colloquially "God has no son". "I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate  them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle." (Qur'an:8:12) Why is there a crescent moon on the front of every mosque? To this day, a crescent moon can be found at the front of every mosque,  acknowledging that Allah was, and is the moon god. In conclusion, ISLAM is founded on the worship of a pre- Islamic pagan moon god elevated to the one sovereign god by Muhammad's vision. In Mecca, circling around the cuboid stone mimicks the energy needed to open a portal in a spirit world. ISLAM is unwittingly opening evil doorways and inviting themselves to become more possessed by Satanic forces.
 

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