Burn the Qu'ran Day

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Religious leaders speak out against International Burn a Quran Day – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs

Response so far to an event billed as a Gathering for Peace, Understanding and Hope has been "overwhelmingly positive," a minister in Gainesville, Florida, told CNN on Monday. The event is planned in response to a local church's International Burn a Quran Day.

As part of the Gainesville Interfaith Forum - made up of Christians, Muslims, Jews and Hindus - Trinity United Methodist Church will host the event September 10, the night before the planned burning of the Quran.

The nondenominational Dove World Outreach Center said it will host the Quran-burning event on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks. The group said it will 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.

"Our hope is that we'll have a thousand people here and there will be 20 people [at the Quran-burning]," Trinity's senior minister Dan Johnson said Monday. Johnson predicted the event would be "multicultural and multifaith." He said he hoped it would inspire a number of people to sign up for the city's interfaith forum. "One member told me after church Sunday that they've never been as proud to be a member of this church as they are now," Johnson said.

In a note posted on his church's website last week, Johnson invited all residents of Gainesville to the counterevent. "We feel compelled to raise our voices to proclaim that the action the Dove World Outreach Center is proposing is absolutely wrong and counter to the life and teaching of the Jesus whom we
love, follow and call savior and Lord."

Wednesday, the city of Gainesville denied a burn permit to the center, said Bob Woods, City of Gainesville spokesman. "It was a question of public safety," said Woods. "The Gainesville Fire Department has notified the center through a letter," he said.

But that isn't stopping the church. The Gainesville Sun reported that, in an e-mail newsletter sent out Wednesday, the church announced: "City of Gainesville denies burn permit - BUT WE WILL STILL BURN KORANS."

Gene Prince, the interim chief of Gainesville Fire Rescue, told the Sun on Wednesday that under the city's fire prevention ordinance, an open burning of books is not allowed. He said if the church goes ahead with its plan, it will be fined. And the church's intentions aren't the issue. "It wouldn't matter what the book is they're burning," Deputy Chief Tim Hayes told the Sun.

"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," Dove World Outreach Center Pastor Terry Jones
told CNN's Rick Sanchez last month.

Jones wrote a book titled "Islam is of the Devil," and the church sells coffee mugs and shirts featuring the phrase. On the church's website, a section lists "Ten Reasons to Burn a Koran." 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.
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jesus christ, born the qu'ran day???

Thats some weak minded anti american bullshit right there.
 
conv3rsion said:
jesus christ, born the qu'ran day???

Thats some weak minded anti american bullshit right there.
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Maybe it'll look something like this, just maybe more redneck looking?

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This sounds more like a Westboro Baptist Church plan, looks like their going to have to kick things up a notch to match this backwards idea.
 
inb4 muslims get trolled into a freedoms double standard argument. "oh so you claim freedom on the mosque but are against our freedoms to burn paper hmmm???"
 
Unarmed Gunman said:
Freedom is a motherfucker isn't it?
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they should have the right to burn whatever books they want (normal fire laws permitting), and we can have the right to think they are childish backwards retards intent on promoting violence.

I would never support then not having the freedom of expression, regardless of who it pisses off. The fact that they are using that right to preach a message against freedom of religion is what is anti-american, not the exercising of their other rights.

This thread goes at least 5 pages, guaranteed.
 
conv3rsion said:
they should have the right to burn whatever books they want (normal fire laws permitting), and we can have the right to think they are childish backwards retards intent on promoting violence.

I would never support then not having the freedom of expression, regardless of who it pisses off. The fact that they are using that right to preach a message against freedom of religion is what is anti-american, not the exercising of their other rights.

This thread goes at least 5 pages, guaranteed.
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Agreed on all counts. Though the same could be said for Muslims being allowed the right to practice their religion, even though their religion goes against the very rights that allow them to practice it. Double-edged sword all around.
 
Shiiiiiot.. I'll line up the bible, the koran, and origin of species and take a piss on all of em.

I'll do the same to all flags. This sorta shit should be our civic duty. Let freedom ring bitches.

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They better be ready to do or die cause no defense they or anyone who does such a thing will have will be enough to protect them in this life and the judgment hereafter

May Allah have mercy on them for their sins and ignorance

Before haters gonna hate - Jesus spoke Aramaic and in that language the word for God Was Allah so there should be no reason Cristians are afraid to say Allah as their prophet himself did so - and so did all those before him - look it up if you don't believe me
 
Unarmed Gunman said:
Agreed on all counts. Though the same could be said for Muslims being allowed the right to practice their religion, even though their religion goes against the very rights that allow them to practice it. Double-edged sword all around.
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What I love about America is that from birth we are told about our freedoms and most of us hold them above nearly all other things in our world.

For example, many people honestly would die to protect someone's right to say something they completely disagree with (our soliders for example). Thats how important these freedoms are to us.
 
nanexo said:
Before haters gonna hate - Jesus spoke Aramaic and in that language the word for God Was Allah so there should be no reason Cristians are afraid to say Allah as their prophet himself did so - and so did all those before him - look it up if you don't believe me
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honest question, assuming there is one, do you really think the creator of the universe has a preference in how people refer to it?
 
Whatever! this is the kind of "freedom" that offends people so greatly they will start wars is just pain stupid - I mean WTF - provoke aprox 1.5 billion people in this world and then defend it with the so called freedom rights?

That so called freedom that subtracts freedom from others will be the downfall of America

Freedom is not everything it is actually a very dangerous commodity

honest question, assuming there is one, do you really think the creator of the universe has a preference in how people refer to it?
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Dont ask dumb Questions - How can I answer this Id have to ask Him in order to get an answer and then come back to you and write in this thread lmfao? My point was only that the one revered by all Christians - Jesus - referred to God as Allah - and that if you are truly Christian ( coming from the derivative of the name Jesus Christ) You cant but follow suit and any who do not are plainly ignorant.

Assuming the axiom that God brought forward the bible/Gospel and made the languages as was told in the description of the destruction of the Tower of Babel then yes God did have a preference.
 
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