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So, I'm sure you're all aware of the recent goings-on in Afghanistan in response to the burning of the Koran by Pastor Terry Jones.

To sum up, Jones staged a mock trial where the Koran was found guilty of murder and rape and sentenced to incineration. In response protests erupted in Kandahar, and innocents were killed.

I've read enough about Terry Jones to know he is a simple minded and thoroughly ignorant man. It is amazing to me that such a figure can stir up the kinds of protests we've seen half-way across the world. I mean, he is not someone to be taken seriously. But as foolish as Jones is, the reaction in Afghanistan has been disproportionate to put it mildly.

The UN's chief envoy to Afghanistan has this to say:
""I don't think we should be blaming any Afghan, We should be blaming the person who produced the news - the one who burned the Koran. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from offending culture, religion, traditions."

There is a lot wrong with this statement. The actions of this small-minded pastor were deplorable, to be sure, but it is Afghans who bear the responsibility for these murders. What is more, anyone who agrees with the envoy - that the blame rests solely on Jones - is a part of the problem. Without condemnation from within, and without honest reflection, this sort of heinous aggression is encouraged.

Now, his definition of free speech is another thing, and probably indicates a significant and permanent(?) divide between the West and the Middle-East. Whatever the form of free speech born from the Arab Spring, I think it is safe to say that there will always be limitations with respect to religious mockery.

Given this, I think the onus falls on us to practice respect, or at least refrain from commenting as a general rule. But, it also falls upon the Muslim world* to try and understand that when one of us dissents from the general rule, the whole of us are not thereby implicated; nor should these dissenters be expected to be made an example of or prosecuted in any way by our governments.

Thoughts?



*I say "Muslim world" here loosely, knowing that they are not a homogeneous group.
 
I think that freedom of speech absolutely encompasses offence to cultural norms, religious beliefs, and received traditions. I think that is a powerful tool for social change. I don't think burning a koran in the name of religious sectarianism serves any of those purposes but it should still be protected speech.

As far as responsibility goes I think that demagogues who move the ignorant to violence bear the most responsibility. At the same time it's probably asking too much for religious leaders to consistently preach dignified restraint whenever the opportunity to consolidate power with a two minute hate comes up.
 
Pastor Jones has also stated, "It is definitely a consideration to stage a trial on the life of Mohammed in the future,".
 
I've read enough about Terry Jones to know he is a simple minded and thoroughly ignorant man. It is amazing to me that such a figure can stir up the kinds of protests we've seen half-way across the world. I mean, he is not someone to be taken seriously.

I think in the way that he is ignorant, you have to accept that so are the people who partook in the violence. You are probably talking about uneducated men who have no concept or understanding of free speech, of western culture, of the insignificance of Terry Jones. They are simple folk who have likely never gotten the chance to participate in any sort of critical thinking and so when they are fed hatred and misinformation from some imam and they take his word to be the absolute truth it is not altogether surprising.
 
from the WSJ
"We cannot see the difference between that man in Florida and the American soldiers here," said Karimullah, a 25-year-old religious student who, like many Afghans, goes by one name and took part in Sunday's Kandahar protests. "They are killing our people here while in the US they burn the Holy Quran. America just wants to humiliate the Muslim world."
I tend to assume that way of thinking about it is pretty characteristic among these protesters. I don't disagree with the philosophical points about not implicating the whole in the actions of a few (although, why are we in Afghanistan then?) or the importance of the right to desecrate religious symbols in an open society. But there may be a certain absurdity in unproblematically applying those principles to this situation, as if their absolute sanctity were so self-evident, regardless of context, as to make this response incomprehensible. To be honest, I think I might be more appalled by Jones than by them, in that I find their readiness to vengeance easier to understand than his haughty, contemptuous indifference to the potential consequences. I understand (and condemn) a siege mentality in Kandahar, but I don't understand it in Gainesville. What is at stake for Jones here, really?
 
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I don't know why we are in Afghanistan anymore, to tell you the truth. But, I saw an interesting debate on Al-Jazeera today between an American and a British political analyst, and a Prince so-and-so in Kabul. Please forgive me, I do not remember their names!

What was interesting was that the American and British commentators were very critical of continued troop presence in Afghanistan, whereas the Afghan prince (really sorry for not remembering) was arguing for the presence of coalition forces in Afghanistan. And he made an well-informed and passionate case for it. I realize that this man was probably well educated and not exemplar of those who are protesting, but - to me- it seems to indicate that amongst Afghan intellectuals and elite, there are at least a few who fully support this war.

On the street, however, it seems to be an issue of dignity, as it so often is. I think the young man's words in yolland's quote - regarding Muslim humiliation - is telling.

I take anitram's point about the lack of education amongst these protesters, and it makes me wonder what plans, if any, are in place to develop the Afghan education system. I think much of the reason why we are still there is to nation build, and education seem paramount in so many ways.
 
what's the difference between free speech and hate speech?

are there no laws against hate speech in the US??

in France there are laws against incitement to racial hatred which includes hate speech against religious beliefs etc... people like Jones would be prosecuted in France for sure!
 
No, we have no hate speech laws, because of the First Amendment and its interpretation. There is a concept of incitement, but the threat of violence must be imminent (e.g. if Jones had urged attendees to go burn down the mosque down the street). There can be hate speech policies in the workplace, but not in the public sphere.
 
Hitchens had a pretty good talk on why hate speech should be legal.

His main point was that by criminalizing such speech we may be denying ourselves a real learning experience. We are forced to research and learn about the things we take for granted.

onegoodmove: Free Speech

sorry to those who dislike Hitchens; he is not always enjoyable to listen to. But I think you'll find this more palatable.

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he does go off on one of his patented anti-religious tirades in the second half. Just so you know.
 
The UN's chief envoy to Afghanistan has this to say:
""I don't think we should be blaming any Afghan, We should be blaming the person who produced the news - the one who burned the Koran. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from offending culture, religion, traditions."

There is a lot wrong with this statement. The actions of this small-minded pastor were deplorable, to be sure, but it is Afghans who bear the responsibility for these murders. What is more, anyone who agrees with the envoy - that the blame rests solely on Jones - is a part of the problem.

~Basstrap



I agree.

Are we ready to live in a culture that restricts speech because it might offend a religion or a tradition?

I am a Christian, but I would never want to go along with a law that would restrict your freedom to slam my faith or any faith or tradition.


If we are, we are on very dangerous and scary grounds.
 
If we are, we are on very dangerous and scary grounds.

and people like Jones are not dangerous and scary?

fwiw, that doesn't seem to be the case here in France - it is more about trying to encourage mutual respect and equality of faiths

sure, people have their own private views, but in the public domain it's a big no no...

"words" are taken very seriously in French law, surely you would understand that Iron Horse, i mean, the Bible lays great emphasis on not just actions but the power of words also, no? :wave:

as a non-French person, i've found it really interesting learning about this, since moving here... words and speech are a huge part of French law, i mean, for instance, you have to be quite respectful of how you talk about others in public, like you can't for example go round in public saying someone is "crazy" as that would be "undermining their person", but you could describe them as being "psychologically fragile" for instance... and in public arguments you wouldn't say "you bitch!" because that would be verbally insulting someone in a public place, but you could get around this by saying "what bitchiness!" for instance, thereby insulting the action and not the person lol i find it fascinating!
 
The murders seem so disproportionate to the act that I can't help but think some other inane shit might have set them off as well had Terry Jones' church never acted.
 
What Terry Jones did is wrong...PERIOD.

He and his simple-minded followers seem to be unable to deferentiate between the Islamic religion on the whole and the actions of a few barbaric terrorists.

I've stated over and over again that it is not Islam in itself that is the problem - it is those who twist the teachings of the Koran to suit their own evil purposes.

What Terry Jones did was grandstand in the worst way possible and I don't believe for a second that he didn't think that his actions would have severe and deadly consequences. I would even go so far to say that those 30 subsequent deaths (as unjustified as they were) are definitely on his hands.

People need to understand that you cannot condemm an entire religion just for the actions of a few fanatics.

And I don't think this action should be protected by the first amendment just like I don't think that killing someone with a gun should be protected under the second amendment - just because you have the right to bear arms doesn't mean you have the right to shoot someone and just because you have the right to voice your opposition to a different religion doesn't mean you can defile the artifacts of the other religion.
 
In America, organized religions could not exist if hate speech was outlawed.

yeah it's scary... last night on British tv, there was a program on Louis Theroux (i love him! lol) with "America's Most Hated Family" (the Phelps) and i found it sooooooooo hard to watch it made me so angry! i haven't come across anything as extreme as that over here... sure i've had many run-ins with completely bonkers and off-the-wall pentecostals in my dim and distant past who were quite extreme in their beliefs, and a friend who lost family members to a sect, but this hate speech is on a different level altogether... i can't believe there are no laws against it in the US... for me, in France, i find it incredibly shocking...
 
it is not just Phelps and his group

many if not most of the 'so called' main stream religions are opposed to 'hate speech' laws

Couched in language that prohibits "hate crimes" motivated by the victim's race, color, or religion is more language that prosecutes violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is where pastors are at risk.

King says, "If a pastor stands up and [preaches] on the Biblical position on homosexuality, he could be charged under the hate speech legislation. If you speak against Islam from a Biblical perspective, you can be charged."

Similar legislation already has been approved in Canada and Australia. King says a pastor in Australia was arrested. "He was changed under their hate speech laws by Muslims for holding a conference about Islam and for largely reading from the Koran and passages from the Bible about how to come to God." He spent hundreds of thousands of dollars defending himself.

Hate speech legislation in the U.S.? Christians at risk
 
Canada does have legislation against hate propaganda in its criminal code, but it's made very easy for smooth talkers to get off the hook. Also, if one can reasonably show that your hate is religiously inspired, you get a pass. (as you can imagine, there are not many convictions under this section):

(3) No person shall be convicted of an offence under subsection (2)

(a) if he establishes that the statements communicated were true;
(b) if, in good faith, he expressed or attempted to establish by argument an opinion on a religious subject;
(c) if the statements were relevant to any subject of public interest, the discussion of which was for the public benefit, and if on reasonable grounds he believed them to be true; or
(d) if, in good faith, he intended to point out, for the purpose of removal, matters producing or tending to produce feelings of hatred toward an identifiable group in Canada.
 
I see no great divide between those who would be compelled to kill Westerners because of a burned book half a world away, and those compelled to kill Westerners for their secular democracy. This sounds like a handy pretext for anti-Western resentment, and why negotiating with the maniacally irrational would be unproductive.
 
on "Face the Nation," April 3

Bob Schieffer: General Petraues today condemned the actions of this Florida preacher who burned the Koran...Is there anything that actually can be done along this line?

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): You know, I wish we could find some way to hold people accountable. Free speech is a great idea, but we’re in a war. During World War II you had limits on what you could say if it would inspire the enemy...anytime we can push back here in America against actions like this that put our troops at risk we ought to do it. So I look forward to working with Sen. Kerry and Reid and others to condemn this, condemn violence all over the world based in the name of religion. But General [David] Petraeus understands better than anybody else in America what happens when something like this is done in our country and he was right to condemn it and I think Congress would be right to reinforce what General Petraeus said.
When a war is leading us to contemplate this kind of abdication of principle then perhaps it's time for us to abandon it.
 
Christian Science Monitor, April 4
Much of the support stems from the inability of many [Afghans] to contextualize the March 20 Quran burning. A translator who works for a fellow journalist here in Kabul did not know that Florida pastor Terry Jones was the same person who threatened to burn the Quran last September. This led to the perception that many Americans share his beliefs, even if he heads a small church of about 30 people who have so little support that they’ve had to sell their furniture on eBay to stay afloat. Mr. Jones is now trying to sell the church property.

In a place like Afghanistan, where the vast majority of the populace is illiterate and many lack regular access to reliable news outlets, perception and rumors often become more important than facts. Now that the story of the Quran burning has spread, it almost does not matter how strongly US officials--from President Barack Obama to Gen. David Petraeus--condemn Jones’s actions. The damage has been done.

After almost 10 years of foreign troops and international aid groups, the Taliban is still a serious threat and it’s difficult to see what tens of billions of dollars of foreign aid money has bought for the country. Patience is wearing thin among many Afghans, and incidents like the Quran burning provide a vehicle for their growing anger.
 
Christian Post, April 23
Terry Jones, infamous for burning a Quran in Florida, was jailed for a brief time on Friday, preventing him from protesting in front of a mosque in Dearborn, Michigan, as he had planned. He and fellow preacher Wayne Sapp had refused to pay a $1 peace bond set by Judge Mark Somers after a jury determined that his planned Good Friday protest would lead to violence. The two were released hours later after paying the $1.

Jones' demonstration was scheduled to take place Friday evening in front of what he says is America's largest mosque, the Islamic Center of America. He announced that he, along with a handful of others, would be protesting against "jihad, sharia, and the radicalization of Moslems in America."
"Our commitment to the Constitution is unwavering, not merely convenient, which makes your hyperbole about Sharia Law being practiced in the courts or civil law of Dearborn nonsensical," [Dearborn mayor John O'Reilly] stated in a letter Wednesday. "So, you are coming to protest against an imaginary threat that doesn’t exist in our community." He went further to denounce his actions as "twisted paranoia."

...O'Reilly said the city would not prevent Jones from expressing his free speech but instructed him to carry out his protest in "Permit Free Zones"--one of which included City Hall. Jones was denied a permit to protest in front of the mosque for "public safety reasons," according to city spokeswoman Mary Laundroche...Wayne County prosecutors, who asked for a bond of $45,000, argued that the protest would disturb the peace and pose a risk to the community's security. According to Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad, at least four serious threats of violence were made. They also contended that given it was Good Friday and there are Christian churches adjacent to the mosque, the protest would limit pedestrian access or add to traffic congestion.

Though disagreeing with Jones’ views, some have criticized the city, arguing that the government cannot order him to pay in order to express his First Amendment rights. "This is a complete abuse of the court process, and all those involved should be ashamed," Rana Elmir of the ACLU Michigan office told the Detroit Free Press. "The prosecutor's office and the Dearborn court turned the First Amendment on its head. What happened today should never have happened."
Dawud Walid, the Michigan director for CAIR, had been warning on the news for several days that preventing the protest would likely backfire, provoking Jones to sue the county and to challenge the order by attempting to protest again at the mosque. Looks like he was right, as Jones is now vowing to do both. Both Walid and the mosque's imam also expressed concerns that, in citing "public safety issues" as a reason for preventing Jones' protest (and thereby also the planned, far larger interfaith counter-protest), the city might wind up reinforcing stereotypes that Muslims can't be trusted to protest peacefully. I think they should've let him protest, but perhaps made him wait until next weekend when there wouldn't be Holy Week-related traffic complications (shouldn't a pastor have more important things to do with his time on Good Friday, anyway)?

Kind of surprised they didn't cite this in their "public safety" argument, though:

Detroit Free Press, April 22
Controversial Pastor Terry Jones accidentally fired his .40-caliber handgun while he was at a Southfield television studio Thursday night, according to police.The outspoken pastor, 59, of Gainesville, FL, was getting in the passenger side of his car at 11:10 pm after an interview when the Taurus handgun went off, sending a bullet into the floorboard, Southfield Police Lt. Nick Loussia said today. "Officers heard a gunshot, approached the vehicle, asked Mr. Jones if he was OK," Loussia said. Jones and the driver were in the parking lot of Fox2 studios on West 9 Mile. "He was, and they also observed he had a gun in his hand."

Officers took the gun, and also found another gun near the 42-year-old driver, a man from Florida traveling with Jones. Both men were carrying valid Florida concealed weapon licenses, which are recognized in Michigan, Loussia said. "Based on the facts of the investigation it did not appear a crime had been committed," Loussia said, explaining that officers returned the weapons and sent the men on their way. He did not know the type of weapon carried by the driver.

As he entered a Dearborn courtroom this morning, Jones told reporters that he had been up since 4:30 a.m. and firing his gun was "an accident."
Jones was invited to Dearborn by a local branch of a national militia group which calls itself "The Order of the Dragon." Hilarious; bunch of rednecks comparing themselves to a medieval order of knights fighting the Ottomans. Only in America...
 
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by Asra Nomani (Daily Beast), Feb. 22
In the pre-dawn darkness Tuesday morning, I watched US Gen. John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force, as he issued a contrite apology for the burning of Qurans in northern Afghanistan at Bagram airfield. It had all the cultural sensitivies of a man schooled in the honor-shame culture of Afghanistan, Allen saying, "To the noble people of Afghanistan, salam-alai-kum," ("peace be upon you") the "tan" of "Afghanistan" pronounced with a deliberate short "a" sound, not like the long sound in "tan" leather. "I assure you, I promise you, this was not intentional in any way. And I offer my sincere apologies for any offense this may have caused," he said. "My apologies to the president of Afghanistan. My apologies to the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. And most importantly, my apologies to the noble people of Afghanistan." I felt uncomfortable just listening to him bend over backwards doing cultural sensitivity gymnastics. He went on to thank "the local Afghan people" who saved the Qurans, ending in Pashto with manana tashakor, or "thank you very much."

Meanwhile, outside Bagram, a crowd of the "noble" people threw rocks and set an Afghan police booth on fire. Reuters later reported that shots were fired into Koran-burning protests in Kabul, wounding several people. On the second day of protests, the Washington Post reported that Afghan officials said at least three people were killed after police opened fire on protests in Parwan province, where Bagram is located, to disperse thousands of anti-American demonstrators.

Watching the video of the apology and the protests, I just thought: how unfortunate. In the West, we bend over backwards to express cultural sensitivities that the most hardened of Muslim militants or the most ordinary of Muslims don't even practice. When militants firebomb mosques and plant suicide bombers in mosque congregations, they don't apologize for the Qurans that burn and smolder in the aftermath of their attacks. When I was on the pilgrimage in Mecca in early 2003, my family and I were on the top floor of the sacred mosque, where Qurans were scattered on the floor, offending some but not causing a riot.

Like the video of the Marines urinating on the bodies of slain Afghans, this isn't a debate about moral equivalence. Ten years into the war in Afghanistan, it's shortsighted (to put it nicely) for American soldiers, to be burning Qurans. But on the flip side, just like a lot of other misguided honors that Muslims are trying to protect in our community, from wounds dating back to the days of colonialism and harkening into the modern day with protections over the national sovereignty of Pakistan during the Osama bin Laden raid, we, as Muslims, go too far protecting our perceived "honor" at the expense of common sense. No book, while sacred, is equivalent to human life. In April 2011, demonstrators stormed the United Nations compound in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, killing 12 people, after a copy of the Quran was burned in Florida.
In our Muslim community, we're taught to handle the Quran respectfully—put the Quran on the highest shelf in the room, wrap it in cloth to protect it from dust, and do a ritual washing, called wudu, before we touch it. Hardliners go further. The Internet is filled with all sorts of rulebooks and folklore, like at a conservative Muslim website that even pushes the idea that "non-Muslims" can't touch the Quran. Another site says it's a "great sin" to enter a lavoratory with a Quran. Yet another conservative website declares that we can't "stop reciting when one yawns, for when reciting, one is addressing one's Lord in intimate conversation, while yawning is from the Devil." On a deeper level, I believe that we, as Muslims, have to change our relationship with the "sacred text" and make it something that we study, think about and critically examine—not "honor" with such blind reverence that we lose our sense of common sense and rationality. In Islam, we're taught to reject idolatry. Just as some in the Christian faith struggle with "Bibliolatry," or the worship of the Bible, I would argue that, in our Muslim faith, we face a similar struggle with "Quranolatry," a virtual idol worship of the Quran.

I learned this when I visited the pioneering Muslim feminist scholar Fatima Mernissi in Rabat, Morocco, some years ago. The pages on her Quran were dog-eared, and she read it without covering her hair or doing wudu, the traditions I was taught I had to do whenever I opened the Quran. "To me, the Quran is a research book," Mernissi said, respectfully. Her easy access to the Quran challenged my other-worldly relationship with the Quran, and, in a very magical way, she liberated me from relating to the book as if it was beyond my capacity for research and ijtihad, or critical thinking. Later, in the women's balcony at my mosque in my hometown of Morgantown, WV, I was intellectually liberated by pioneering modern-day Quranic scholars and their re-reads of the Quran. I read scholar Amina Wadud's book, "Quran and Woman: Re-reading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective," and scholar Asma Barlas' book, "Believing Women: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Quran." They challenged an even more sacred notion about the Quran that is most unsettling and disturbing, but also very much a part of the problematic relationship we, Muslims, too often have with the Quran: that we can't question how we read the Quran. In fact, I learned, we can, and indeed we had to do just that if we were going to see a progressive interpretation of Islam express itself in the 21st century. Something tells me their books weren't available at the detainee library at Bagram.

...In handling the Quran as I did, some—such as the "noble" men pelting rocks at Bagram—would say that I dishonored the Quran. But I arrived back home safely, as did my Quran. I penned this column, my Quran beside me, and I emerge now from my seat to tuck the Quran back into my bookshelf, not on the highest shelf, but—more significantly to me—within arm's reach.
I agree with her sentiments here, but I have to wonder if her eloquent and thoughtful case for a contemporary ijtihad isn't a lost cause with regard to the people whose actions inspired it. (Nomani is an Indian-American Muslim who often reports from South Asia; in fact, Danny Pearl and his wife were staying with her in Karachi when he was abducted and murdered back in 2002.) Does a space even exist in their culture within which the critical theological scholarship that she's arguing for would make sense? And if it doesn't, what else would need to change first in order for one to be opened up?

Lately there's been a rash of articles in Western media about baad, the traditional Pashtun practice of "resolving" a dispute between families by forcing a girl from the accused family into marriage with a man from the accusing family. (The practice remains common in Afghanistan, and to some extent in Pashtun tribal areas of Pakistan as well.) Over and over in these articles, the girls and/or their relatives express the same sentiment: We're not happy with these arrangements either, but it's the only way to secure justice and prevent further vengeance; when we try taking matters to the local official courts (as opposed to the tribal councils), nothing at all happens unless you've got money for bribes, plus if the judge turns out to be a relative of someone friendly with either family involved (as he often does) there'll be no pretense of balance at all. And the reason this happens is that the official courts aren't reflective of or grounded in the surrounding culture; most judges are in it for the money and the connections, and haven't been steeped in any sort of public service ethos or civic awareness as we'd understand that. Likewise, in a country where less than a third of men (let alone women) have any education whatsoever, and the goal of education isn't cultivating original critical thought but rather the preservation of an ever-fragile basic social stability--what kind of space can there be for critical analysis of the most esteemed text of all? I'm a firm believer in the power of the human longing for justice to transform repression into renaissance, but how that happens is always informed by circumstances endemic to that place and time, not someone else's place and time.
 
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When militants firebomb mosques and plant suicide bombers in mosque congregations, they don't apologize for the Qurans that burn and smolder in the aftermath of their attacks.

That would be my first point but then again I'm an infidel.
 
Egyptian protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo on Tuesday and pulled down the American flag during a protest over what they said was a film being produced in the United States that insulted Prophet Mohammad, witnesses said.

In place of the U.S. flag, the protesters tried to raise a black flag with the words "There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger", a Reuters reporter said.

Once the U.S. flag was hauled down, protesters tore it up, with some showing off small pieces to television cameras. Then others burned remains.

"This movie must be banned immediately and an apology should be made ... This is a disgrace," said 19-year-old, Ismail Mahmoud, a member of the so-called "ultras" soccer supporters who played a big role in the uprising that brought down Hosni Mubarak last year.

Many Muslims consider any depiction of the Prophet to be offensive.

Mahmoud called on President Mohamed Mursi, Egypt's first civilian president and an Islamist, to take action. Many others were supporters of Islamist groups.

About 20 people stood on top of the embassy wall in central Cairo, where about 2,000 protesters had gathered.

"There is no god but Allah, Mohammad is Allah's messenger. We will sacrifice ourselves for you, Allah's messenger," they chanted, with many waving religious flags.

However, according to the website www.standupamerianow.org, the Christian Pastor Terry Jones, who angered Muslims by burning a copy of the Koran, was due to take part in an event on Tuesday called "International Judge Mohammad Day" in Florida in which it would symbolically put the Prophet on trial and play it out live over the Internet.

Egypt Protesters Attack U.S. Embassy In Cairo
 
Seems as though Muslims are a very sensitive bunch!!!!

And way to keep making this dumbass pastor's ego keep growing and growing.

He knows by doing this he's going to create a reaction. Yet those other dumbasses over in the middle east keep falling for it.

I get that your prophet is sacred to you, but seriously get a grip and learn to ignore those who rile you up!

And what kind of a person is this christian pastor for doing this? Does he not realize that innocent people are going to get hurt, or even killed because of his actions? Doesn't seem like something Jesus would approve of.
 
Seems as though Muslims are a very sensitive bunch!!!!

And way to keep making this dumbass pastor's ego keep growing and growing.

He knows by doing this he's going to create a reaction. Yet those other dumbasses over in the middle east keep falling for it.

I get that your prophet is sacred to you, but seriously get a grip and learn to ignore those who rile you up!

And what kind of a person is this christian pastor for doing this? Does he not realize that innocent people are going to get hurt, or even killed because of his actions?

I really don't want to defend this guy but no one will be killed or hurt because of his actions.
 
I'm not going to put the full blame on this guy, but he stirred up a hornets nest and now we have a US Ambassador killed because of protests. Why were they protesting? Because of Terry Jones.

He has every right to say what he wants, but he also knows this is exactly the reaction that was going to happen.

How about we send Terry over to the middle east so he can explain his positions on Islam?
 
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