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Florida Pastor Defends Koran Burning Plan

Fox News ^ | August 13, 2010 | Staff

Posted on by lbryce

A Florida pastor is speaking out in defense of his congregations controversial plan to burn copies of Koran on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, MyFoxOrlando.com reported.

"Things like 9-11, Fort Hood, and the honor killings... these are possibly not isolated incidents," Dove World Outreach Center pastor Terry Jones said. "These are things that, if we don't stand up now, they can increase."

The Gainesville, Fla. church made headlines worldwide in July when it announced the plans on its Facebook page.

The event had received thousands of "Like" recommendations by users of the social networking site, but had also been attacked with a number of threatening messages posted on the page and received corresponding anti-Islam rants.

Jones  who has written a book titled "Islam is of The Devil" and sells T-shirts bearing the same message  says his life is being threatened after getting international attention for his plans.

"We have thought about it," the pastor said, "about the danger in holding the controversial event, and we realize that whenever we made this step, that this kind of thing could happen. But we feel it's that important, and the times call for some kind of radical measure in standing up.



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The Koran was repeatedly disparaged, disgraced, flushed down the toilets at Guantanamo....by the prisoners themselves, as a way of bringing attention to themselves. Not a sound was heard from the Islamic World. But why is it that all Bibles found in the course of a cursory airport baggage search are confiscated, burned inside of mosques in the Arab World and not a word in protest is ever heard? No tolerance for the intolerant.The Koran was repeatedly disparaged, disgraced, flushed down the toilets at Guantanamo....by the prisoners themselves, as a way of bringing attention to themselves. Not a sound was heard from the Islamic World. But why is it that all Bibles found in the course of a cursory airport baggage search are confiscated, burned inside of mosques in the Arab World and not a word in protest is ever heard? I believe if not a majority at least a substanital number of Americans would agree with what the pastor has to say,plans on doing on 9/11 and I applaud, salute, support his efforts wholeheartedly.What is not at all grasped by the dementedly misguided liberal mindset is that it's one thing to compete along philosophical lines, freedom, democracy,capitalism versus every other lesser forms of economic, societal structure that have come and gone, the prospect of compromise, accomodation was always a possibility, nothing inherently in dogmatic violation. But with these people, there can never be compromise, acommodation, because there can never be a compromise when it involves their God, their destiny as they believe it to be, their eternal afterlife.



To: lbryce

I’m in! I will find a free copy somewhere and BURN IT as well. Let’s all go visit our local terrorist training camps... what do they call those buildings? Masks? Something like that anyway... But get a free copy and then BURN them.



by 2 posted onby RachelFaith (2010 is going to be a 100 seat Tsunami - Unless the GOP Senate ruins it all...)

To: lbryce

Personally, i’d like to see the Qurans soaked in liquifed pig fat, then lit ablaze. Let’s give that pornography the respect it desrerves.



To: RachelFaith

ZHell, I’ll even buy a copy so I can burn it!



To: chris37

if you can burn the flag or the bible, you can do the same with the koran



To: lbryce

What a waste of perfectly good toilet paper.



To: 4rcane

Your logic is impeccable, irrefutable. I love it! :-)



by 7 posted onby lbryce (Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)

To: lbryce

Good to see people standing up and getting real about Islam. Of course the church will be slammed by the Islamophilia crowd.....but this church is doing something a lot of others should be doing...getting real about Islam



by 8 posted onby UCFRoadWarrior (JD for Senate ..... jdforsenate.com. You either voting for JD, or voting for the Liberal...)

To: lbryce





by 9 posted onby MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)

To: lbryce

It’s an evil book, full of evil and hatred.



To: lbryce

WORKS FOR ME!



by 11 posted onby Dick Bachert (The upcoming election is the most important in our lifetimes!!! BE THERE!!!!!!!)

To: lbryce

great. islam for stooges meets christianity for stooges.



To: lbryce

Count me in!



by 13 posted onby pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)

To: lbryce

What? Burn a book which demands “true believers” murder, steal, enslave, mutilate, practice pedophilia and engage in atrocities of every known flavor??? Gee...how insensitive!!



To: lbryce

Lol, I read that as Korean first.



by 15 posted onby correctthought (Hippies, want to change the world, but all they ever do is smoke pot and smell bad)

To: lbryce

Can I use a Mexican flag for kindling?



To: lbryce

As a matter of free speech, I say burn away. But I don’t think a Christian Pastor should be leading his congregation in such an activity.



To: the invisib1e hand

Yeah...but for the most of us... (saying it almost lamentfully as you've implied) they're our stooges. (Chrisianity, is) ;-(



by 18 posted onby lbryce (Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)

To: the invisib1e hand

“great. islam for stooges meets christianity for stooges.” Yea, something like that....hehe



by 19 posted onby DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)

To: dfwgator

Absolutely. Starting fires can be hazardous this time of year, but hanging them in national park outhouses would be a public service. Save the taxpayer a buck or two as well. Islam giving back to the community. Win-win, as they say.



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