Is the uproar over a church's plan to burn Qurans causing you to change your travel plans?
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Is the uproar over a church's plan to burn Qurans causing you to change your travel plans?
Is the uproar over a church's plan to burn Qurans causing you to change your travel plans?
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Someone arrest this no-name pastor already. If churches across the US start exploding all of a sudden then we need someone to blame.
Yeah, the muslims who want us all dead to begin with. If this causes them to react then we can just take them all out and be done with it.
"Is the uproar over a church's plan to burn Qurans causing you to change your travel plans?"
Is that a serious question?
Maybe if you were planning a trip to the Middle East........
How many more ways can they come up with to stoke this fire?
Anyway, I wonder what the "penalty" would be for us infidels if this church just held the books "hostage"?
Ya know, collect as many as they can and do their best to rid the streets of this "holy book"?
How about just dowsing them with pigs blood?
How about (at this point) doing nothing?
Is that going to change one hair on a rats ass?
Initially I thought this was a ridiculous idea. I still think it's a ridiculous idea.
But NOT doing it because it will inflame these radicals, makes me want to puke.
F'em!
If Muslims blow up churches, why not blame Muslims who blow up churches?
This is more proof that all religons have their share of lunatics and morons. This guy is an idiot for burning these books and even bigger idiots out there who say they want to encourage suicide attacks. I do believe that religon (I am a Christian) can make the world a much better place if we actually live the words of Christ (speaking to Christians) and become what Jesus became and that is a servant. It is time to stop taking up weapons and begin taking up the towel. Praise the Lord that this "church" only has 30 members (20 members have left). Churches are like public swimming pools. . .the most noise comes from the shallow end.
This is silly. A 50 person church burning religious books and everyone has their undies in a bundle. This is a prime example of the liberal media making this a headline story in an effort to try to make all christians look like one wingnut. While I don't support the burning of the books, it is their constitutional right. If the terrorists don't understand that then it only underscores why they are the enemy.
I guess this so called man of God doesn't even look at other options like recycling. Maybe he needs a little godly direction/advice.
I am absolutely sick and tired of the U.S. pandering to the whining of everybody else on the planet at the expense of it's own citizens. I could give a @!$%# if muslim extremists are upset over the actions of this hilbilly preacher. The last time I checked we are still a free nation under the constitution. The same constitution that allows for the building of a mosque at ground zero allows this florida preacher to burn the quran. If you don't like it move the hell out.
Intolerance of other religions is at the root of most violence in human history. All religions claim theirs is the only one worthy of passage.
But only one wants to annihilate those that don't adhere to their beliefs.
I don't believe for one moment that Christianity is the only religion that wants to annihilate those that don't adhere to their beliefs. But if you insist, ok. sarcasm
Oh I'm sure SOMEONE will come up with some proverb or passage from the Bible that says, in essence, "kill everybody".......... (according to THEIR interpretation.)
The Quran is a little more direct with the wording, but everyone knows "you must kill the Jew and infidels for Allah", REALLY means "love thy neighbor"!
I want to know why President Obama did not take the opportunity to denounce this type of act with the denouncing of the burning of the Koran when he took the podium , HE NEEDS TO TELL THE MUSLIM RADICALS AT THE SAME TIME THAT THERE IS NO TOLERANCE FOR EITHER KINDS OF ACTS !!!!!
http://theconservativemonster.com/2010/09/08/disturbing-video--public-islamic-beheadings.aspx
They still have not gotten closure from the 911 attacks. They never got bin Laden and people are feed up. they forget when they declare it a religious war. They need to move the moque to six blocks away. People need to learn the right thing to do. You can slap your mother, but is it the right thing to do? c'mon.
Even worse that inciting the recruitment of child suicide bombers is the signal sent to American Muslims - that they are the enemy of the United States - according to some Americans. This Church is very similar to the KKK - inciting hate and violence. If you tell all the Muslims in America and worldwide that they are the enemy and shouldn't have their religion respected in America, certainly you will alienate some that might have been our friends.
Damn you most be hopelessly gullible. You really don't think that they do this already?
I have lived and worked in a bunch of Muslim countries. Most Muslims are fairly tolerant of other religions and fairly positive toward Americans. It is you this are hopelessly gullible.
If by "fairly positive toward Americans" you mean: giddy and jumping for joy at the fact that their brethren flew two planes into the World Trade Center and killed a few thousand of us, then yes, they LOVE US!
The Muslims in America are loyal Americans and believe in freedom of speech and religion. The will fight at our sides against the radical Muslims that do not believe in freedom. ------- Until they prove otherwise. It is not up to us, it is up to them.
Tampon I think you are a Muslim and are in denial as to what your religion actually teaches. It sure as hell does not preach peace. Not in any way shape of form. If it did then the so called moderates would not have been dancing in the streets after 9/11 happened. There is no such thing as a moderate Muslim. The only difference between a radical and moderate Muslim is how far they are willing to go to kill an American or as the call it an unbeliever.
or teacah tme that if they choose to have an extermeist interpretation of thier 'holy book' that they will in fact be an enemy...
they can choose any/whatever religion, or humor, or work they want, but if any of their choices supports or increases the status of others who have extremeist view then they are not our friends..
This is just another obvious demonstration that many muslims are absolute lunatics. Who are they going to attack? Some innocent person on a plane? As if that makes any sense at all?
If you religion can't stand up to an insignificant little protest then it doesn't deserve to be recognized.
the true lunatic is the man and his church that is burning a holy book. It may not be yours or his, but it is a holy book and you are just asking for trouble when you you give this type of activity a stamp of approval.
I agree but I would add that when we denounce one we should be denouncing ALL forms of these types of acts by anyone , today everyone needs to be SURE and call out ALL forms of violent extremes of hatred . The Press should DEMAND This from everyone poasting a remark on any public forum
He is not burning other peoples Holy Books, he is burning his own -- bought and paid for. He did not steal it from a Muslim, he bought it. If he bought it he has a right to do what he wishes with it --- use your imagination. And Bob freedom of speech means not demanding that any of us say anything. Freedom of speech means we can say anything we want to say -- even if it offends. Freedom of speech IS the freedom to offend. Otherwise, it really is not freedom is it.
I'm completely sick of thinking about what will offend these idiots, screw all of them. I do not feel anyone should have to disern bettween so called "peacefull Muslims" and the "Radical type" It's a bunch of crap, that particular religion is full of intolerance, so why should I have any for it ! By the way, there is a huge sub-culture of gay muslim clerics.
By the way, there is a huge sub-culture of gay Muslim clerics. and than means????
Christianity is also full of intolerance, just read the posts by the good christian people or better yet go to the burning with those good christian people.
If you consider the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, most of them outside of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran - that the people in the overwhelming majority of Muslim countries are either our friend or have no strong opinions about us.
Tell them all their religion is not acceptable to Americans, that we consider them to be devils and we want to publicly insult their religion, and there will be some change.
Plenty of governments of Muslim Majority countries are our friends - Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Indonesia, Turkey, etc etc. This one stupid act won't change them all but it will affect some of the less educated among their population. The worst and most unfair impact is on American Muslims, blaming all of them for a few violent radicals. Christians and Jews are all blamed for their violent fanatics. Muslims should not be either.
I agree, and Americans in general will not do this. But if they cannot accept our freedoms of speech and understand that some people in our country have the right to say things that offend Muslims, and they hate all of us because of what a few say --- then that is a problem with Muslims, not with America. America should not be bullied into giving up our freedom of speech in order to avoid offending religious fanatics. Long live Salmon Rushdie!
What's totally beyond belief is the fear of Islam around the world right now due to this 1-pastor!!! The fear is at or above panic/hysteric levels!!! I have to say that Islam has won this war and they have to be laughing at the world as it clamors in total fear to try and stop this 1-man.
Islam, I have to hand it to you right now, for today the world is your puppet!!! They're weak and you know it, we'll all be praying to your god in the future I'm sure.
The best thing to do is walk away from this crazy man and his church, he's gotten his attention. If they do it, let them reap the consequencesof their actions. He my have a martyr complex we know nothing about, so let it play out.
There have been many cases of ethnic violence around the world - sometimes Muslims against Christian and vice versa. There have been Churches burned in Northern Nigeria in recent years. But I know of no cases of a big public burning of bibles by Muslims.
Muslims vary tremendously (like Protestants - very decentralized religion and a sprinkling of violent lunatics) but generally they have respected people of "the book" - from the religions starting from Abraham. The claim repeated by ignorant people about Muslims coommonly burning bibles is just based on ignorant prejudice, not on fact.
The Ottoman Empire (Turkey and the Arab countries) for centuries prior to its demise in World War I was much more tolerant toward Christians and Jews than European countries were toward Christians with different sects (e.g. protestants in France) and toward Jews than Europeans were.
Al Qaeda is a tiny minority - against the United States and also against the Muslim or largely Muslim governments of Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Islam is common in developing countries and some of those countries are in civil wars (just as largely Christian Congo is in a huge civil war with millions dead).
Wish for the entire Muslim world to be your enemy and do things to make them all made and you will move toward your goal - offending and alienating your friends. What a dumb thing to do!
We are not ALL doing this. A small group is doing this. We will not adopt censorship in America to avoid offending people. When there is freedom of speech, people say offensive things. We all have to accept this and laugh it off. Muslims should just laugh it off and move on, and continue to be friends with the West. If they do not, and they decide to fight and kill innocent Americans for what a few have done, then they are not friends to America in the first place. America will not "suck up" to the sensibilities of radical Islam. Radical Islam must accept freedom of speech in America, or radical Islam can chose to be a religion of violence and fight a war with America. Our freedom of speech is not an act of war against Islam unless Islam makes it an act of war.
Gary you should stop replying to tampon he is just a tampon for pork pussy.
Worldwide, educated Muslims will probably realize that this Koran burning was a limited act, though it adds an emotional image to a lot of other Islamophobia expressed in America recently.
The powerful image will be the pile of burning Korans shown to 13 year olds to show how evil the US is and to encourage them to volunteer as suicide bombers.
The image will also influence and disappoint some of our many Muslim friends around the world. They will see the picture, not the many thousands of words, mostly opposing this foolish act. Here a picture will be worth more than a thousand words, perhaps more than a thousand lives.
From what I seeing and hearing it looks like maybe we should be more Islamophobic. It certainly is more justified than I originally thought.
why didnt they just quit this thing?!?!
NO book should be burned !! No flags should be burnded and no violent stuff
thats silly doing something like that !! the world should live in peace !
and not every moslem is a part of this terrorists
im a muslem to and i am agaist burnig Koran and i dont think its ok to burn the amerikan flag ..
there are many different moslems i am a moslem i believe in allah i pray but im not a terrorist and i dont have a headscarf or something like this and im from bosnia and not from afghanistan .. :D
"They" don't quit because they see little more than the evils done by Islamic fanatics, all in the name of the Quran, just as Christians once murdered Jews and Islamic people and used the Christian Bible as justification. The fact that neither our President nor our government can force them not to do such things speaks of the limits placed on them by our Constitution, which prohibits them from acting dictatorially, as so many Middle Eastern governments can and do. Is that one reason so many people come here: in hopes of freedom and a chance to find prosperity? Would anyone here wish to give up what our ancestors gave us and submit to a dictatorial government, or will we stand up for our principles?
Samy,
So, speak out against the book burning, explain WHY it offends you and why these "Christians" are hillbilly bumpkins. You have a right to your beliefs just as they have a right to theirs. Be convincing. Make better arguments than they do. And you will have shown yourself both to be a good Muslim and a good American. But if you respond in violence, and try to silence those who disagree with you, then you are incompatible with America. In America people are free to say things that offend others --- that is the essence of freedom. If all offensive speech were outlawed -- then nobody would be saying anything! Be a good Muslim, like the fine author Hosseini, author of the Kite Runner, who wrote the most beautiful book I have ever read in the English language. Be a good Muslim, and practice your freedom of speech. And, encourage your Muslim friends to do likewise. The actions of a few extremists should not lead us all to violence.
yeah ill be a good muslim i just want to say its not ok to do anything violent
i know that moslems did wrong things (twin towers,or burning american flags... ) and thats not ok - thats a very bad thing
but NOBODY should do anything violent its not ok to burn the kuran but the things that this musliman people in afghnistan are doing isnt ok to and if they burn the kuran they will do something back and then its going to end in a war and i dont want this to happen .. !
This country is suppose to be free. they can kill are people on are own ground,then tell us what we can do and not do.this pastor my be wrong but in these country he has the right to do that. Muslims donen't run these country we do.Maybe the Muslims should stop telling all the other country's what they can do.They burn are flag they kill are people an we are not to do anything. It is time, we as a country stand up for the rights that are for fathers died for to give us this freedom an are young boys are dieing for now. We went to war for oil, why can't we fight for or freedom once more.because if you stop the pastor from doing what he want's to do then we lost are freedom.
your god is in your heart not in a book you ass holes.ITS just a book,he is not beheading some ones father or son. Maybe we should play by thier rules!
The over reaction of something rather meaningless by the Muslims speak loudly for their so-called religion of peace. I'm sure the guy in Florida putting on the little event had no idea of the ruckus that has resulted. Unwittingly, he has caused these raving lunatics to show their true colors - - and it's bad. Not saying that the preacher should do such a thing, but the world needs to be watching with both eyes fully open.
I think this should be a case of, "You can't hate our lunatic, only we can hate our lunatic."
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Let them burn the Quran, after all they are well within their civil rights. WGAF!!