Posted on 03/28/2011 9:01:50 AM PDT by marshmallow
In Hyderabad and Lahore, a mob of Islamic fundamentalists targeted the Christian places of worship. Desecrated several copies of the Bible. Anti-American slogans and demonstrations in different cities of Pakistan. The extremists pledge more violence, if Washington does not condemn pastor Jones to death. Bishop of Islamabad: the gesture of a "fanatic."
Islamabad (AsiaNews) - Two believers killed, churches attacked, copies of the Bible burned: the Christian community in Pakistan is once again the victim of violence by Islamic fundamentalists, who have targeted places of worship in the country. The extremist violence was triggered by the insane act - repeatedly condemned by Christians in Pakistan and India – of the pastor Wayne Sapp, who last March 20, in Florida burned a Koran under the supervision of the evangelical preacher Terry Jones. The escalating violence has raised alarm over the fate of Asia Bibi, a symbol of the abuses committed in the name of the blasphemy law. The bishop of Islamabad / Rawalpindi defines the US pastor a "fanatic" who encourages followers to a "violent ideology", the consequences of which have an impact "on innocent Christians" across the world.
On March 25, a mob of Islamic extremists attacked a Pentecostal church in Hyderabad, killing two Christians and burning some copies of the Bible. Eyewitnesses said that the fundamentalists stormed the place of worship looking to set it on fire, but a group of believers defended the church. Security forces have fled the scene, leaving those present at the mercy of the crowd. The attackers hurled anti-Christian slogans and a feeling of anger toward the religious minority has spread. in the city The pastor of the church reports that "despite the condemnation of the burning of the Koran" the community "has come under attack because they think that we are linked to the........"
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This is why we need a MUSLIM FREE AMERICA.
WE LEARNED ALL WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ISLAM ON 9-11.
Those bastards would use any excuse to attack. They are nothing but cowards.
A Koran is burned in Florida and a church burns in Pakistan—the Muslim Butterfly Effect.
Sounds like The Chicago Way, as explained by Sean Connery (and Barack Obama).
While I don’t condone Koran burning in general, this does show the vast difference between Islam and Christianity. You certainly would not see this kind of violent reaction if someone were to desecrate a bible (and they have).
I have always wondered why Islamists give a blind eye to the filth in Hollywood. I’m sure that once Khaliforniastan is engulfed into the caliphate (if it were to happen), Hollywood will be the first to be torched.
Who gets to condemn them to death?
The Muzzies were burning churches long before the koran was burned in Florida.
To say the churches were burned because of it is b.s.
Alrightee then...
Burning a book is "insane" ... murdering two people and burning down buildings is a natural reaction (albeit "extreme") that was "triggered" (ergo, justifiable) by this "insane act".
Burning a book might be thrown into the category of wasting money (said book could have been used to prop up the short leg on a table, or other useful purposes) ... but hardly "insane".
"But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also."
"But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one . . . The disciples said, 'See, Lord, here are two swords.' 'That is enough,' he replied."
I would say that it is the season to buy a sword, and no longer the season to turn the other cheek. It's one thing to allow anger to dissipate without escalating a conflict, as Jesus commands in Matthew 5. It's an entirely different thing to allow God's word to be attacked and His people to be killed in a mass genocide, a continuation of a long-standing war of ignorance and evil against civilization and good. Luke 22 strikes me as the more appropriate verse for this time in our history. [Note: I don't consider myself the final authority on this question or on scriptural interpretation. Once we get a Christian and an American in our White House, I hope she (he?) will pray and will follow guidance from the Holy Spirit on this question. It's just that I expect the answer to be less gentle than the popular reading of Christ's message.]
All of this shows America’s grand strategic shortsightedness in going after Al Qaeda in Afghanistan after 9-11, and begging Afghanis to like us while showering them with cash and stories of the nobility of democracy, instead of green-lighting India to bulldoze Pakistan and Afghanistan both, which India was champing at the bit to do. I knew we were in trouble when Bush started bombarding the U.S. airwaves with “Islam means peace” and “I’m an American!” propaganda, though.
And their excuse for all the other Christian churches they have burned and all the other Christians they have killed is??????
how can they have so many members in a religion as hate-filled and violent as this?
Dispicable.
Read it as well. Very interesting. Try the Assassin series by Robert Ferrigno next. Scary stuff...
Will do!
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