Posted on 09/08/2010 5:27:57 PM PDT by mnehring
LAKE JACKSON, Texas - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Congressman Ron Paul today issued the following statement about a Florida pastor's plan to ban copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
"A professed Christian pastor in Gainesville, Florida, Terry Jones, plans to burn copies of the Quran on 9/11. He indicts all Islam for 9/11 and argues that it is a hate-driven religion. He's convinced he's on God's side even though he is getting little support from other Christians, who believe that Jesus is the Prince of Peace.....
...our policies of torture, targeted assassination, invasion of Muslim countries and unintended infliction of civilian casualties in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan are also provocative. Pictures of victims of torture as well as innocent people killed by drones and stray bombs are every bit as bad as burning the Quran.
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He is pro-life. You disagree about his vote I presume on something or other.
I’m using the accepted definition of pro-life, which is anti Roe v Wade.
Pro lifers disagree on various issues.
You’d like Rand’s positions.
Limited government conservatives.
I see you completely missed the point. I don’t think it is a good idea either, mostly because I think it is a publicity stunt by these people.
The point is Paul claims the problem isn’t the book burning but our own military and we caused the terrorism.
Once again, Fraud Paul finds a way to blame the US.
Phelps is saying that if Jones backs out of this Koran burning he'll do it ~ AGAIN!
He burned a Koran in 2008 and nobody noticed apparently.
This nexus suggests that rather than becoming "less popular" the Phelps crowd have metastasized and acquired yet another congregation.
They'll hear about this in about a million years.
BTW, it is not in the mullahs' interest that the people they suck the life out of know that Korans may be burned with impunity.
They have those poor people believing it is a magic talisman that will protect them against harm, heal the sick, pay the bills, and solve all their personal interrelationship problems. It is a physical manifestation of the concept described as "Jesus" in "Jesus Can Work It Out".
If you don't know the song check
There are an awful lot of people out there into Liturgical Religion and they fail to see the attractiveness of something like a Shouting Church, or a major talisman like the Koran, or prayer wheels, or the penetrating beat of the drums across vast wilderness of the sub-arctic, or the construction of commemorative mosques on top of the graves of the enemy.
These things have tremendous power over the minds of men ~ (personally I much prefer "Jesus Can Work It Out" and I use that only as a reminder of what non-liturgical services can do).
I’m beginning to think he’s insane.
I may have understated the case.
I’ll bet he can weave a mean basket, though.
LOL!
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