Pastor to burn Koran
by beksbks 265 Replies latest social current
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tec
I think the point - in this case - is that he is a pastor who is supposed to be following Christ, and helping his adherents to do the same. From the comments on his site, and from Christians living in predominant Islam places asking him to please stop or THEY will feel the repercussions, I don't know how he can ignore that.
Not that I think it matters at this point. He can take it back for himself and he can tell others to do the same (if he does), but people are going to do it now, regardless. I hope that isn't the case, but I think it will be.
You just have to look at the comments on their facebook page.
Tammy
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Sam Whiskey
Pastor Terry Jones has some serious cajones. I applaude him for standing up to radical Islam. And if our troops are going to be jeopardized by this? But they haven't been by dropping bombs, and killing thousands of radical Muslims and trying to find Bin Laden to knock him off? What are people thinking?
Are we going to continue to bow to Islam in fear?
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Sam Whiskey
Would you or I "go radical" and start killing people if the Bible were burned? This is just lame to take these people (Islam) seriously any more....
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B-Rock
Evil Koreans burning the Holey Koreann
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JWoods
I think Justicia really owes me an apology.
The past two pages should prove to anybody that I am pretty moderate on this - and I DID call the preacher a publicity hound and an idiot.
Wonder what Beks thinks?
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Dark Side
The following are excerpts from an interview with Robert Spencer by Jamie Glazov, editor of Frontpage Magazine
Robert Spencer is the author of nine books on Islam and Jihad, a weekly columnist for Human Events and Frontpagemag.com, and has led numerous seminars for the U.S. military and intelligence communities. He is the author of the new book, The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran.
http://frontpagemag.com/2009/10/07/the-complete-infidels-guide-to-the-koran-by-jamie-glazov/
FP: Tell us how and why political correctness has made it almost impossible to discuss what is really in the Koran and in other Islamic texts.
Spencer: Political correctness would have us believe that the Koran is a book of peace, and that anyone who says otherwise is “bigoted,” “hateful,” and “Islamophobic.” But is it, really? What the Koran really says can easily be verified. If the Koran really curses Jews and Christians (9:30) and calls for warfare against them in order to bring about their subjugation (9:29), it is not “Islamophobic” to forewarn Infidels by pointing this out. It is simply a fact. And it should go without saying that it is not a fact that should move any reader of my book to hate anyone. The fact that the Koran counsels warfare against unbelievers should move readers to act in defense of freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the legal equality of all people, before it is too late.
FP: How does the misinterpretation of what the Koran and other Muslim texts teach endanger our security?
Spencer: Most Western analysts dogmatically deny that the Koran teaches violence and supremacism. Yet Muslims who believe this comprise a global movement, active from Indonesia to Nigeria and extending into Europe and North America, that is dedicated to waging war against “unbelievers” – that is, non-Muslims – and subjugating them as inferiors under the rule of Islamic law. This movement sees in the Koran its divine mandate to wage that war.
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Yet a huge number of policy decisions are predicated upon the assumption that the Koran teaches peace, and that those who brandish Korans and commit violence are misunderstanding their own religion and perverting the teachings of their own holy book. These include U.S. government postures toward Pakistan and Egypt; immigration matters; airport security procedures; military strategies in Iraq and Afghanistan; domestic anti-terror policies; and our acquiescence to Saudi Arabia’s Islamic proselytizing campaign in America and many other countries.
But most government and media analysts dare not even question the assumption that the Koran is peaceful, for they believe that any insinuation to the contrary is racist, bigoted, and effectively brands all Muslims as terrorists. In other words, they think the implications of the possibility that the Koran teaches warfare against unbelievers are too terrible to even contemplate. Thus, many policymakers simply assume the Koran teaches peace without bothering to study the text. They do this to their own peril – and ours.
FP: What, in your view, is the Koran?
Spencer: It is the primary religious text of one of the world’s most prominent and influential religions. For more than a billion Muslims, the Koran is the unadulterated, pure word of Allah, eternal and perfect, delivered though the angel Gabriel to the prophet Muhammad. For Infidels, it is a threat, a call for their destruction or subjugation. Consequently, every Infidel needs to know what is in it, and plan accordingly to defend himself.
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palmtree67
Dark,
You are gonna be in soooo much trouble with Justithia......
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B-Rock
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/9/
9:5Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
(9:5) The Verse of the Sword
"Slay the idolaters wherever you find them."
Is each person be free to believe as he or she wishes?9:29 Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, and forbid not that which Allah hath forbidden by His messenger, and follow not the Religion of Truth, until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low.
(9:29) "Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah until they pay the tribute (the Jizya) readily, being brought low."
How should Jews and Christians be treated?
Is each person be free to believe as he or she wishes? -
Dark Side
Dark,
You are gonna be in soooo much trouble with Justithia......
Yeah. He/she will most likely pound me into submission with some really brusque name-calling
