While visiting the website, I sent an email to Jones - pointing out something which he may not have been aware of. As I told him, translated versions of the Qur'an (or Koran, as he puts it) are not considered to be the Qur'an by devote Muslims. An English translation, for example, is not the Qur'an ..... that book would be referred to as "the meaning of the Qur'an". For it to be considered authentic, the book must be written in Arabic. I explained to Dr. Jones, that should he wish to actually burn a Qur'an, he must use a copy written in Arabic.
I have no idea what, if any, reaction Jones had to this tidbit.
I went back to the Dove World Outreach Center website this morning only to find that the website is down.
Did it crash? Was it hacked or did Jones and his group take the site down intentionally? I doubt if Jones had anything to do with the removal of his website. He obviously likes the attention he's getting.
President Obama - who is not a Muslim, by the way - has now come out against the planned burning.
In an interview with George Stephanopoulos, Mr Obama called Jones' "stunt" a "recruitment bonanza" for al-Qaeda. Obama went on the say that, should Jones carry out his threat, it would endanger American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as innocent individuals in Pakistan. Obama worries that this could increase the recruitment of individuals who are willing to blow themselves up in American or European cities. The President said that Jones is engaging in a destructive act.
How can this be? We all know that Islam is a Religion of Peace. Is the President suggesting that Muslims would kill innocent people because of the actions of another individual? I do not recall Obama, or Hillary Clinton or Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaking out so forcefully when P.Z.Myers (a professor at the University of Minnesota Morris) pledged to desecrate the Eucharist. Are they telling us that Muslims would react more violently than Catholics would under these circumstances?
Tell me it ain't so.
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Once again we see the hypocricy in the so-called tolerent left. Christians must tolreate being abused, their sacred symbols etc being desecrated, yet desecrating the Qur'an is wrong. Why aren't the lefties telling the Muslims to suck it up like they told us to?
Rhetorical question, we know the answer. & you pointed it out. The fact is, Christianity is the true religion of peace. Christians didn't riot or kill people because someone did what Myers threatened or used dung for a painting of Mary or put a crucifix in a jar of urine. But draw a cartoon of Mohamed or this & what is the reaction.
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