Westboro Baptist Church to burn Qurans if Dove doesn't

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By Chad Smith
Staff writer

Published: Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 2:42 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 5:20 p.m.

Westboro Baptist Church, the small Topeka, Kan., church that pickets funerals of American soldiers to spread its message that God is punishing the country for being tolerant of homosexuals, has vowed to hold a Quran burning if Gainesville's Dove World Outreach Center calls its off.

Source: http://www.ocala.com/article/20100909/ARTICLES/100909743/-1/news?Title=Westboro-Baptish-Church-to-burn-Qurans-if-Dove-doesn-t


More nutjobs to the rescue...

[Shami-Amourae]

From 2008:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N8_MYw13Ws

...They already did it before!
;D

[ximmy]

It has to be done!!! :P

[Phoenix]

More nutjobs to the rescue...


"We are a 'religion of peace,' and if you do not agree, we will KILL you!"

"Nutjobs" describes all your Mooslim friends around the world preaching violence and killing because some little church wants to burn their unholy book.

[Apparition]

More nutjobs to the rescue...


"We are a 'religion of peace,' and if you do not agree, we will KILL you!"

"Nutjobs" describes all your Mooslim friends around the world preaching violence and killing because some little church wants to burn their unholy book.


From my perspective, both the extremist Muslims as well as the Westboro Baptist Church clergy are nutjobs trying to incite anger for mostly pointless reasons.

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From my perspective, both the extremist Muslims as well as the Westboro Baptist Church clergy are nutjobs trying to incite anger for mostly pointless reasons.
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Agreed.

Your comments coincide with my perspective as well.

[platinumdude]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/10/3008109.htm

Koran burning may be on again

The pastor of a tiny Florida church has threatened to rethink his decision to abandon plans for a weekend Koran-burning event.

Hours after calling off the much-criticised ceremony to mark the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Pastor Terry Jones backtracked and said it had merely been suspended.

"Right now we are just putting a temporary hold upon our planned event," he said.

The Dove World Outreach Centre pastor had earlier said his change of heart over the event was in exchange for a deal to relocate a controversial mosque project near Ground Zero in New York.

But the alleged deal was thrown into confusion when the imam leading the project for the Islamic cultural centre in New York, Feisal Abdul Rauf, quickly denied any such agreement.

Pastor Jones claimed to have won assurances from an Orlando imam acting as a go-between, Mohammed Musri, that Iman Rauf was willing to do a deal and would meet him in New York on Saturday to discuss it.

"We put a suspension on it because right now we are actually really disappointed and very shocked because if this turns out to be true, he [Imam Musri] very clearly lied to us," Pastor Jones said later after Imam Rauf's denial.

"We would be forced to rethink our decision, because we cancelled it based upon his word.

"I understand he [Imam Musri] is now going around saying that he did not say that."


Ugh, he might as well do it and get it over with so that the media can later focus its attention on sensationalizing some other pointless events.


Yeah, these two threads were similar I moved my original post to the other thread.

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More nutjobs to the rescue...


"We are a 'religion of peace,' and if you do not agree, we will KILL you!"

"Nutjobs" describes all your Mooslim friends around the world preaching violence and killing because some little church wants to burn their unholy book.


I will have to agree with you Phoenix, do any of you on this board think because some Muslim's in another country burned the Bible, would cause any of this backlash?

[Phoenix]

extremist Muslims


No, Quran-correct / Quran-faithful Muslims. Not "extremist."

[madfranks]

extremist Muslims


No, Quran-correct / Quran-faithful Muslims. Not "extremist."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_A._Gabriel

In his first book, Against the Tides in the Middle East: The true story of Mustafa, former teacher of Islamic history (1997) Gabriel (writing as "Mustafa") tells of his birth on 30 December, 1957 to Muslim parents in the region of upper Egypt known as Al Saeed. His parents, wealthy owners of a clothing factory, and six brothers and one sister were all devout Muslims. Early fears by relatives that Mustafa would grow up a Christian because he had been breast fed by a Christian woman resulted in him being given a thorough Islamic education.

Mustafa grew up immersed in Islamic culture and was sent to Al Azhar school at the age of six. By the time he was twelve years old he had memorized the Qur'an completely.[1] After graduating from Al-Azhar University with a Master's degree for his thesis on The reign of the heir over the Islamic kingdom in the period of Ammaweya in 1990 he was subsequently offered a position as a lecturer at the university.[2] During his research, which involved travel to Eastern and Western countries, Mustafa had become more distant from Islam, finding its history, 'from its commencement to date, to be filled with violence and bloodshed without any worthwhile ideology or sense of decency. I asked myself "What religion would condone such destruction of human life?" Based on that, I began to see that the Muslim people and their leaders were perpetrators of violence."'[3] On hearing that Mustafa had "forsaken Islamic teachings" the authorities of Al Azhar expelled him from the University on 17 December, 1991 and asked for him to be released from the post of Imam in the mosque of Amas Ebn Malek in Giza city. The Egyptian secret police then seized Mustafa and placed him in a cell without food and water for three days, after which he was tortured and interrogated for four days before being transferred to Calipha prison in Cairo and released without charge a week later. Following these events Mustafa lost his faith and went to work as a sales director in his father's factory, but after a year of reflection on religious texts and discussions with a Christian woman, he "gave his heart to Jesus".[4]

On 4 August, 1994 Mustafa was sent by his father to South Africa to establish connections in the clothing materials business. In Durban he met a Christian family from India with whom he stayed for three days and lived a Christian life for the first time, before returning to Cairo. For about ten days Mustafa wore a Christian crucifix around his neck before his father noticed it and demanded an explanation. Mustafa explained: 'I received Jesus Christ as my God and Saviour, and I pray for you and the rest of my family to also accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour'.[5] Mustafa writes that his father collapsed, but on recovering cried out to his other sons 'Your brother is a convert! I must kill him today!'. Mustafa escaped to his sister's house and on 28 August, 1994 left on a journey through Northern Egypt, Libya, Chad and Cameroon, finally stopping in the Congo, where he was struck down by malaria. Following a "miraculous recovery from certain death" Mustafa left the hospital after five days "to tell the people everywhere what Jesus did" for him in Africa.[6]