Church plans Quran-burning event on 9/11

[Kofu]

A related story to that of anti-mosque protest:

(CNN) -- In protest of what it calls a religion "of the devil," a nondenominational church in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an "International Burn a Quran Day" on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.

The Dove World Outreach Center says it is hosting the event to remember 9/11 victims and take a stand against Islam. With promotions on its website and Facebook page, it invites Christians to burn the Muslim holy book at the church from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

"We believe that Islam is of the devil, that it's causing billions of people to go to hell, it is a deceptive religion, it is a violent religion and that is proven many, many times," Pastor Terry Jones told CNN's Rick Sanchez earlier this week.

Jones wrote a book titled "Islam is of the Devil," and the church sells coffee mugs and shirts featuring the phrase.

Muslims and many other Christians -- including some evangelicals -- are fighting the initiative.

The church launched a YouTube channel to disseminate its messages.

"I mean ask yourself, have you ever really seen a really happy Muslim? As they're on the way to Mecca? As they gather together in the mosque on the floor? Does it look like a real religion of joy?" Jones asks in one of his YouTube posts.

"No, to me it looks like a religion of the devil."

The Islamic advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations called on Muslims and others to host "Share the Quran" dinners to educate the public during the monthlong fast of Ramadan beginning in August. In a news release, the group announced a campaign to give out 100,000 copies of the Quran to local, state and national leaders.

"American Muslims and other people of conscience should support positive educational efforts to prevent the spread of Islamophobia," said CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper in the release.

The National Association of Evangelicals, the nation's largest umbrella evangelical group, issued a statement urging the church to cancel the event, warning it could cause worldwide tension between the two religions.

"The NAE calls on its members to cultivate relationships of trust and respect with our neighbors of other faiths. God created human beings in his image, and therefore all should be treated with dignity and respect," it said in the statement.

Dove's Facebook page, set up for the September event, has more than 1,600 fans.

"Eternal fire is the only destination the Quran can lead people to, so we want to put the Quran in it's [sic] place -- the fire!" the page says.

But another Facebook group with more than 3,100 fans says it stands "against the disrespect and intolerance that these people have for the Muslim people" and encourages people to report Dove's page to Facebook.

Targeting another group it calls "godless," the Dove center is also hosting a protest against Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe, who is openly gay, on Monday at Gainesville's City Hall. The group previously fought -- unsuccessfully -- to derail Lowe's election campaign.

"We protest sexual perversion because the Bible protests it. ... What is acceptable to today's leadership becomes acceptable to tomorrow's society," the church says in its blog entry about the event.

Lowe and other government figures and media outlets received e-mails from the church about the event, The Gainesville Sun reported. Lowe isn't concerned with Monday's event.

"I've got other things to do," he said, The Sun reports.

On the outreach center's front lawn, alongside a sign reading "Aug. 2 Protest, No Homo Mayor, City Hall," stands not just one, but three signs bearing the slogan "Islam is of the Devil."

One of the signs -- one reading "Islam" on one side, "Devil" on the other -- was vandalized. On its blog last week, the church said the sign will be replaced.

"This is private property and vandalism is a crime here in America," the blog says. "In Islam, many actions that we consider to be crimes are encouraged, condoned or sheltered under Islamic teaching and practice, though. Another reason to burn a Quran."

I just... I... no.

 

[deepseadiva]

I kept wanting to quote pieces of the article and just add "lol", but I kept finding one after another after another.

lol

 

[Mr.Freeman]

Yeah, go America.

Spread that Muslim intolerance like there's no tomorrow!

 

[Kofu]

The guy is horribly intolerant.
As are his followers.
And ignorant.

 

[Jam Stunna]

My question is: why does the news media feel compelled to give every crackpot in America a microphone? Are we not better served if this ***-backwards church went about it's insanity in complete obscurity?

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

My question is: why does the news media feel compelled to give every crackpot in America a microphone? Are we not better served if this ***-backwards church went about it's insanity in complete obscurity?

The media has always fed off of sensationalism and making the average American feel better about himself / herself by showcasing inappropriate radicals so that the populace can sit home and think, "I'm smart and accepting because I'm not like that" or "Look how irrational those people are, I sure am a reasonable individual."

 

[Life]

^Ratings are more important than news, dontcha know? /ninja'd

My (politically incorrect?) take: I don't have a problem with most Muslims. Let them do their thing. I do have a problem with people who fly planes into buildings, whether it's "for Islam" or for any other reason. This church appears to have the two confused. /sigh

 

[El Nino]

My question is: why does the news media feel compelled to give every crackpot in America a microphone? Are we not better served if this ***-backwards church went about it's insanity in complete obscurity?

We would be better served, yes.

But then again, fail blog is popular for a reason.

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

We would be better served, yes. But then again, fail blog is popular for a reason.

El Nino. Don't you enjoy how the news explains all scientific discoveries in accurate detail?

 

[Mota]

I'm not religious at all, but this is just ridiculous.

I blame the media, as always lol

 

[UberMario]

I can understand having a grudge against it due to 9/11, but this is going WAY overboard.

 

[Geist]

I hardcore facepalmed.
bleeding nose brb

 

[Fuelbi]

 

[Niiro]

This is just....depressing =/

 

[El Nino]

El Nino. Don't you enjoy how the news explains all scientific discoveries in accurate detail?

You mean like this?
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=280915

 

[Dre89]

This guy is ignorant, but what's just as ignorant are the people who see this in the media, and assume all religions and theists are like this.

Just curious, what Church is he from?

He seems like a tradiitonal fideist, so I'm guessing he's not Catholic.

 

[Lore]

This guy is ignorant, but what's just as ignorant are the people who see this in the media, and assume all religions and theists are like this.

Just curious, what Church is he from?

He seems like a tradiitonal fideist, so I'm guessing he's not Catholic.

Agreed. :/

He's non-denominational.

My church (baptist) actually semi-supports this, and that makes me sad. I would stop going to it, but my mom works there.

 

[#HBC | Dark Horse]

Remind me, why aren't this people in a mental warden?


Hold on, i'll hire some fideist to bomb the white house. Then let's see what they're saying

 

[Dragoon Fighter]

Remind me, why aren't this people in a mental warden?

Blind Hitler level hatred does not equal insane. I do see were you are coming from and do agree with you.

 

[TigerWoods]

My question is: why does the news media feel compelled to give every crackpot in America a microphone? Are we not better served if this ***-backwards church went about it's insanity in complete obscurity?

Yeah we'd probably be better off not hearing about him, though...

Isn't it possible that giving this guy a microphone would enlighten people to evils like this which still exist?

Maybe I'm just a bit too optomistic about the morals of the American people though...

Whether or not what I said is correct... I still do not like the news station's intentions in publishing this article >_>

 

[-Jumpman-]

Let's have a Bible burning day the next day. :D For as all of you know, many of the stories in the quran are derived from the bible.

 

[Mr.Freeman]

It wouldn't make us any different from these people who burn the Quran.

Notice: not every Christian burns Qurans, or victimizes others for different beliefs. Like how not every Muslim has a bomb strapped on them, or ram jets into buildings.

 

[-Jumpman-]

Religion is terrible regardless of people burning the quran.

 

[Lore]

Notice: not every Christian burns Qurans, or victimizes others for different beliefs. Like how not every Muslim has a bomb strapped on them, or ram jets into buildings.

^This.

Religion is terrible regardless of people burning the quran.

I love people who make broad, offensive statements without giving any reasons whatsoever. ^_^

 

[Mr.Freeman]

Religion is terrible regardless of people burning the quran.

Uhhh, right...whatever.

Don't know what that has to do with this. Somebody else tell him he's ignorant.

 

[Luigitoilet]

Religion is terrible regardless of people burning the quran.

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

You mean like this?
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=280915

I really didn't follow that news story. I apologize. I was thinking more about the synthesized yeast cell that everyone was making big news about as being the first completely synthesized cell. When really, any scientist could have done it if they wasted enough time trying to find each restriction marker, applying endonuclease, and then running continuous blot tests.

 

[El Nino]

I was thinking more about the synthesized yeast cell that everyone was making big news about as being the first completely synthesized cell.

I take it you mean this:
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748703559004575256470152341984.html

The language used in that article alone bothers me. But I do like how everything that happens in the field of biotechnology is a reason to bring up Modern Prometheus.

In comparison, the more level-headed reporting of:
http://www.newscientist.com/article...eation-birth-of-the-first-synthetic-cell.html

When really, any scientist could have done it if they wasted enough time trying to find each restriction marker, applying endonuclease, and then running continuous blot tests.

That's what grunts are for. Keeps the new grads employed.

 

[1048576]

I go to University of Florida, and these people are being loud and boisterous every day as I walk through the main plaza on the way to class. I'm absolutely certain the world would be better off without such people.

Send the Dove World Outreach Center an email http://www.doveworld.org/contact

 

[TigerWoods]

Religion is terrible regardless of people burning the quran.

Not every atheist insults other people for being religious... should be added to the list of misconceptions... xD

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

In comparison, the more level-headed reporting of:
http://www.newscientist.com/article...eation-birth-of-the-first-synthetic-cell.html

Venter's work was a proof of principle, but future synthetic cells could be used to create drugs, biofuels and other useful products. He is collaborating with Exxon Mobil to produce biofuels from algae and with Novartis to create vaccines.

This is why people make a big deal out of aspartame when they discover that its production is aided by genetically modified E. Coli. They fail to realize that "synthetic" cells are already used in hundreds of products. Unless Ewen is being particular in the sense that "synthetic" can only apply to to an organism who has had its genetic code completely redone by oligo (dT) primers and is a complete cDNA transcript of the original. Again the definition won't have a scientific explanation because most people wouldn't understand anything past the four basic nucleotides: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. Scientific news is never written for the sake of reporting news about science, but for regular people to have mistaken conceptions and beliefs about science based off of rudimentary knowledge and personal opinion. I apologize for derailing this thread but I find the news to be extremely vexing whenever a "scientific breakthrough" is discovered and I'm given a scientific article that is neither science or article.

 

[-Jumpman-]

I never insulting anyone for being religious lol. And if arguments are actually needed to convince anyone religious has had terrible consequences someone hasn't been going to school.

 

[Mr.Freeman]

Do you mean anyone or anything? Because you didn't word what you said right.

 

[BBQTV]

great just what we need fuel for the fire

 

[Budget Player Cadet_]

Organized Religion is terrible regardless

Fix'd


Regarding this article... Well, it's their right to do this. There's nothing we can do to stop them, but **** if it isn't just flat out coming out and saying, "I'm an islamophobic douchebag."

 

[Kole]

Hey let's all have a Bible burning day because of he Crusades

 

[Budget Player Cadet_]

Might as well, right?

 

[Omnicron's Baklava Enterprises]

This is why I don't particularly like other Christians.

They tend to be ignorant and condemn other religions because of what they did.

Acceptance is just a hopeless dream I guess.

 

[Crimson King]

They are pretty evil if they go through with this. Islamic extremists have killed for much less, so I think this church is trying to stir the hornet's nest.

If people die from this, that pastor should be charged with negligence.

 

[Jonas]

Why do people still think we live in the middle age?