There should be a tag team match in Madison Square to settle it. Rev. Wright and the Imam vs. Rev. Jones and Chuck Norris.
“but that’s the world we live in right now”
No the world we live in now is one where muslims can do no wrong no matter how savage and despicable they behave and Americans only have constitutional rights if Muslims allow them to.
The only thing more sickening than the liberals and muslims playing this game is that some rinoconservatives, who you would have thought would have known better, have joined in.
The question that needs to be addressed is why would something so innocuous as a Pastor of a Church of 50 followers burning a book create such a world wide stir and evoke threats against the entire non-Muslim world?
I think the problem is not Pastor Jones, but Islam. If Pastor Jones had threated to burn any other book ever printed, nobody would care. The fact that he wants to burn a single copy of the Koran makes everyone on the planet uneasy.
One man. One Book. One World in crisis.
This is an interesting question because the media certainly liked to hype this fellow up & publicize his attempted promotional stunt.
I really believe Rev. Jones was only trying to bring to light the double standards afforded to Muslims as opposed to Christians. This may have been a very bad idea but he has shed some new light on how things work (It certainly opened my eyes) in regard to Christian religious freedom as opposed to Muslim religious freedom. Rev. Jones was more than ready to call off the quran burning if the Mosque was moved. I did not see the same flexibility from the Imam. In fact, he seems to have dug his heels in. This speaks volumes to me.
This guy is a nobody. I have been in Bible Study classes for “25 to 35-year-old married couples with kids” with more than 50 people.
I think the event is a mistake ... but the Muslim world is reacting more strongly to 50 people in Florida than they reacted to the thousands of Palestinians dancing in the streets on 9/11.
Get some perspective here. There are individual churches in this country with thousands, or tens-of-thousands, of members. Come back to me when one of THEM holds such an event.
SnakeDoc
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same . . ."What part of that oath is in the least bit ambiguous? The military is sworn to uphold the Constitution and if I am not mistaken, that would include the First Amendment right of this jerk to burn the Koran.
The controversy over the ground zero mosque highlighted Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a Muslim cleric who seems insensitive to the feelings of Americans regarding the Sept. 11 attacks.”
Insensitive huh, Mona, pull your head out of your backside. Rauf has repeatedly parrotted the jihadi line whether it concerns Muslim sensitivites in Malaysia due to certain churches using the term Allah, culpability for 9/11, threats over the proposed moving of the GZM, his inability to label Hamas as terrorist and the list goes on. This guy may not have strapped a bomb vest on, but it’s clear he supports those who do.
So I guess now being a terrorist or sympathizer means your just insensitive to American’s feelings.
Many in this country have simply lost the will to confront evil.
The lunatics know they can control us through fear, so there is nothing surprising about their response to burning the unholy Korans, or building the monument to the terrorists at ground zero. We have become a nation of kowtowed, trembling neurotics who deserve to live in fear. Terry Jones is a kook, but not nearly as big a kook as the kooks who are panicked over his kookiness. ...If our labors to befriend the Muslim world can be destabilized by a fringe preacher burning a Koran, we’ve failed, and should immediately start looking for a better way to communicate with the Islamic crazies.
I wonder why our country is in a position that allows Sharia Law to trump the Constitution? Here we have a General of the formerly great USA deferring to Sharia Law. How did we get ourselves into this position?
Nobody in authority condemns the burning of bibles, destruction of Christian churches, and the killing of Christians and Jews for that matter.
The US mass media deserve some blame for this, but the real problem is the Arab media. Al-Arabiya TV was making this a big story back in July, and other muslim media ran with it, and there were already protests in Afghanistan and Indonesia before the story broke big here.
Petreus decided to comment on the story when asked by the WSJ reporter, and the US media took it and ran with it.
He is doing exactly what needed to be done. Showing the whole world and America especially just how one-sided and evil the Islamists are. No Christian would ever threaten to kill people if a Bible is burned, not one.
Even those who agree with Pastor Jones are trying to cover themselves with the Islamists when they use that phrasing.