Because we live in an age of unreason, where cowardice is called courage.
Posted on 09/11/2010 8:36:50 AM PDT by Qbert
Florida pastor Terry Jones said Saturday that he would never carry out plans to burn copies of the Quran, according to NBC.
Jones had planned to burn the Muslim holy text on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, but now says he’ll never go through with it.
"We will definitely not burn the Quran, no,” he said in an interview with the “Today” show in New York. “Not today, not ever.”
Jones said he would refrain from Quran-burning even if a proposed Islamic community center and mosque is built near Ground Zero, according to NBC. Jones heads a small church in Gainesville called the Dove World Outreach Center.
The pastor’s plan drew warnings from top military officials and President Barack Obama that burning the Quran would endanger the lives of U.S. service members. Obama criticized the plan during a press conference Friday.
“The idea that we would burn the sacred texts of someone else’s religion is contrary to what this country stands for. It’s contrary to what this country, this nation was founded on,” Obama said. “We’ve got an obligation to send a very clear message that this kind of behavior or threats of action put our young men and women in harm’s way. And it’s also the best imaginable recruiting tool for al Qaeda,” he added.
Jones is seeking a meeting with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who heads the Cordoba Initiative that’s proposing the Islamic center, but said nothing has been set up, according to NBC.
Jones told the network that his goal was to “expose” that there is “very dangerous and very radical” element to Islam, and claimed, “we have definitely accomplished that mission.”
It isn’t about the stinkin’ Q(hic)rhan. It’s about power and weakness. The pastor, probably at the behest of the PTB, has shown weakness. I will not be surprised if the “iman” refuses to have anything further to do with him.
The pastor has proven nothing, and the moose limbs have won another one.
JoeProBono has more guts.
I have photos I’m going to post later.
DOes he have a wife and children? If so, no doubt they were threatened with rape and beheadings, the standard response to any slight by the ROP. Why would anybody put their family through that for exercising their freedom of speech, when the highest officials in government have not only NOT promised to defend your rights, as they are constitutionally required to do, but have actively attacked you and called you a troop-killer if you do it?
Chicken shit.
We have basically just told the Muslim world that they could intimidate us.
I so wish that it wasn't this lunatic that brought this fact to light. It wouldn't look like anyone that agreed with him was a bigot.
I do not want islamofascists running my life.
My Constitution does not say you have a right to free speech, as long as it doesn't insult someone else!
yep..
I think the devil spoke right into his ear and promised him something far greater which scared the $h!+ out of him.
WishyWashy..like prez 0b0zo is
Because we live in an age of unreason, where cowardice is called courage.
I wonder what the FBI threatened him with.
Whatever happened, his about-face in exchange for nothing relegates him to the dustbin of history.
He’s living proof that one doesn’t have to believe in God to start a church.
Because the powers that be understand the real, true, destructive power of Islam and Sharia law and it scares them to death.
Probably pictures of him with little boys somewhere.
Being an attention whore does seem to have a downside...
That's about it. As far as Terry Jones is concerned he got his fifteen minutes of fame and kicked up a hornets nest in the process.
Welcome to obama's amerika
F***** fascist dhimmi thugs
Based on his very obvious reversal of direction, one can't help but wonder if that "exposure" was not in the form of a direct threat by muslims (I refuse to capitalize that scumname) against his life or the lives of his family...
It seems Islam has “special rights” over Christianity and Judaism.
I hope and pray now that the U.S. Government has found compassion for religion that we won’t fund Crucifixes in Urine or Mother Mary made out of cow dung. Because we
are supposed to show tolerance for religion.
Maybe since it was funded by the government, that is what makes it OK.
Obviously, Islam is not a Peaceful Religion.
Please ping me when you do. Thanks!
Oh good grief...talk about your overblown sense of self importance.
The 2 attacks on the WTC, the bombing of the USS Cole, the Khobar Towers bombing, the Muslim Psychiatrist killing soldiers at Ft. Hood, The Irving father that killed his 2 daughters, Robert Kennedy, etc., etc., etc., and you think your little publicity stunt helped "expose" radical Islam?
Get over yourself.
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