Pastor weighing plans to burn Qurans amid U.S. warnings
 

(CNN) -- The pastor of a Florida church planning to burn Qurans told CNN Tuesday while the congregation plans to go through with the action to protest the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States by al Qaeda, the church is "weighing" its intentions.

Terry Jones, pastor of Dove World Outreach Church in Gainesville, Florida, who was interviewed on CNN's "American Morning, said the congregation is taking seriously the warning from the U.S. military that the act could cause problems for American troops.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/09/07...ex.html?hpt=T2





Note:September 7, 2010 Updated 1415 GMT

What they should have done instead of spending money on copies of the Quran and Bic lighters was going out into his community using the money for something more purposeful....like feeding those in need.

Kind of ironic...World Outreach Church....yeah sure...:shifty:

I'm not impressed by the World Outreach Church's actions but as an exercise of rights it is no more dispicable than building a mosque close to ground zero.

Also I am of the opinion that this will not place US troops or US citizensin in any more danger than they are already exposed to, exhibited by the multiple deaths by airplanes as bombs, beheadings, and explosive attacks.

I dont get what they plan to accomplish by doing this other than pepole getting pissed off.

Kind of like the Mosque at ground zero.

Both are stupid ideas.

This.

Again, there is ZERO question that they are protected in their right to burn any book they like—by the same Amendment that protects the mosque-builder near the World Trade Center site. The question was never one of legality, but propriety. The difference is funny, actually. The mosque builder claimed it was a positive thing to build the mosque there—and it's not positive. The church nuts could only want to burn the koran to be offensive.

I can see good reason to burn some korans—simply to demonstrate that it is no different than any other book. It may be destroyed, and doing so is a protected right. How about burning it along with some bibles—heck, throw in some Richard Dawkins to make the fundies happy. The purpose would be freedom of expression, not anythign else.

I don't agree with the premise of the following. but I do like the way he wrote his position.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9...ont-Burn-Books

While I like how he felt, I still believe that people do have the right to burn books they own. Americans have the freedom to do many stupid and irrational things. While I find the idea of burning books stupid and irrational and abhorrent, I will support stupid and irrational people burning books that they own.

In the America I love, even the stupid people have rights. :yep:

That pretty much sums up my view on First Amendment rights.

I think the man SkyBird has posted often on this subject. He is correct.

I had trouble even reading that screed.

Bookstores have some period when they celebrate "banned books." Least they do here. My brother in law used to do the windows for the store he worked in to pay his way through college.

The United States doesn't ban books. True. That would be against the First Amendment. The government shall not...

The people, OTOH, they can do whatever the hell they feel like.

He seems to miss the point that those are not people, they are States. A government burning books is entirely different than people burning books. A state compels people to burn books (or not own them) on pain of death or loss of liberty. That's all the difference in the world.

Wonder how the kos people reacted to the artistic equivalent of burning the koran—putting a cross in a jar of piss, for example? I'd be interested to know, since the left can always be counted on to defend first principles for Islam, but never for the religion they really hate, Christianity.

Note I have no dog in the fight, being an atheist.

I'll bring the marshmellows.......

I'd imagine the burning ink would give them a bad taste :)

Maybe they could burn eco-korans made with soy ink?

Yea, you are proberly right, I will just stay home. LOL Proberly a good idea too as I would not be a bit surprised if a group of radical muslims show up with bombs and machine guns.....:o

I'd be very surprised if that happened.

Yeah, so unlikely as to be nearly absurd.

That said, people getting killed elsewhere (out of US) because of it? Not unlikely at all.

I would agree that this would be extreemly likely. Not a good time to go hiking on the Pakistani border.

I know it wont happen, but if it did, lets say, I will never doubt anything "couldn't" happen after 9-11. :know:

Oddly enough, they usually kill each other. Or their neighbors, anyway.

All we hear from terror-associated groups like CAIR is to worry about "islamophobia" or mistreatment of muslims. They slaughter Americans wholesale on 9-11, and what happens? Pogroms? Nope, nothing. Imams get invited to the WH to lead prayers. Meanwhile, cartoons are published, and they riot and kill back home.

Bottom line is that the worst anti-muslim in the West is only likely to engage in rhetoric, not violence---or even threats of violence. The same cannot be said in reverse, where freedom of expression--in free countries--gets people murdered (Theo van Gogh, for example, or fatwas against Rushdie).

These church members better be careful because they might lose their heads over this. Look at the crazy guy who stabbed a Muslim cab driver over the building of the Mosque. And that was only one crazy guy, think of all the radical Muslims who might snap.

And perhaps it would not just the Americans that would be in most and immediate danger.
We've got a lot of those radicals Muslim here with their organizations that I guess would love to burn some bibles or even some church buildings, the authorities are being soft with these radicals though many moderates condemn them through the media.

Whether or not the burning is "right" aside, the fact that it would indeed incite many in the Muslim world to violence is the overarching problem here.