Posted on 05/28/2005 8:44:25 AM PDT by Asphalt
More than 300 Muslim protestors set fire to a wooden cross outside the American Embassy in London last Friday 20th May.
The crowd, led by Omar Bakri Muhammad and Yassar al-Siri, were protesting against the alleged desecration of a Qur’an by American military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. This followed claims by Newsweek magazine that a copy of the Qur’an had been put down a toilet. American and British flags were also burnt, and the protestors chanted calls for violence against the US and UK. Amongst the protestors were about 50 women, some of whom had brought their children.
At the time this protest took place, Newsweek had retracted their story about the alleged incident in Guantanamo Bay. Yet the cross-burning still took place, and has caused little interest in the British media.
Riots in Afghanistan about the same issue had already caused the deaths of 16 people.
OH, YEAH! This did not make NEWSWEAK.
As hard is this is to say, let them burn it.
They do not harm the West or the Christian faith, which will endure and triumph despite actions like this.
They only harm is to Muslims themselves.
Uh huh.
Anyone know where I can find a toilet large enough to really flush that Koran?
Those people are positively nuts. Down with Islam.
That's true and I agree, but they should make an equaly big deal out of this as they did burning the quaran (not kill people) why is it that no one hears about this?
Because Christians don't go on murderous rampages at the drop of a hat.
"why is it that no one hears about this?"
Because the cross is a sign of Christianity. Everyone knows that Christianity is the evil oppressing conqueror and Islam is the religion of peace. (sarcasm off)
Did BrydDroppings lend them some white sheets? It makes cross burning so much more dramatic.
May 26, 2005
DURHAM, N.C. Officials in Durham, North Carolina, are investigating the burning of three large crosses in a span of just over an hour last night. [snip]
Nobody is hearing about how one of the terrorists in custody has actually RECANTED his story either.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1411353/posts
Did anyone hear this in any of the alphabet stations?
I am astonished at the continual covering of the butt of the Muslims, why is that?
Cross burning? Now what other group do I know about that is known to do that?
Page-by-page, it might make great "outhouse reading."
:)
Oh, you mean it's only a hate crime when directed at the racial proletariat?
I guess two wrongs do indeed make a right.
This shows the stark contrast between Christianity and Islam. Christianity is a faith based upon love, forgiveness and compassion whereas Islam is a faith based upon hate, revenge and violence. I believe that God has called us to save the body of Islam by converting it rather than killing it.
What? You didn't see the scores of Christian mobs taking to the streets in a blood-soaked rampage?
Oh wait, that never happened.
Actually, in a way, I'm glad to see them burn a cross because it highlights to the world the radically different way from muslims that Christians act in the face of desecration of their religious symbols. Christians are civilized and rational, muslims are barbaric and insane.
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