US church to go ahead with Sept. 11 Quran burning

[hani_backup]

I read this article and my mouth dropped.

Apparently "International Burn a Koran Day" is September 11th.

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[shadowspoken.livejournal.com]

Saw it on the news today at lunch, the guy is a friggin' idiot.

[hana-ginkawa.livejournal.com]

It's completely stupid. As if all the world's evils was born from the scripture of the Koran. I've never read it, but neither have they. If they did, though, I'm sure it would be similar in values to their own "word".

People...*shakes head*.

[jenifermichelle.livejournal.com]

While this man is disgusting, I can't say I'm surprised given its coming from Florida. People there are ridiculously racist and, even when presented with the cold hard fact that Islam has the same Judaic roots as Christianity, they will still proudly call it the bastard religion of the terrorists. What's even more sickening about this guy is his role as a community leader, he's teaching his congregation, who surely bring their kids to church too, that such hatred is not just okay, but being actively offensive is the right thing to do. So very, very disgusting.

[talkingdonkey.livejournal.com]

This infuriates me so much. I've been following this story. Clearly this is the best way for peace.

[tothedreamtime.livejournal.com]

I think the most poignant thing about this is that it is an example of meeting ignorance with ignorance. Muslim extremist did something ignorant, so Christian extremists sink to their level and do something also ignorant. With the way it goes, this ignorant act will be countered by extreme Muslims with another ignorant act and it will keep going back and forth. They both have the same God share connections to Judaism, which based itself on the religion of Ur from where Abram/Abraham originated. Muslims also believe that while Jesus is not the son of God, he is a prophet and will return. This issue is a fitting representation of the problems in the Middle East. The US views the region through the glass of Orientalism and this act of ignorance is met with ignorance in return. That is how we arrived at where we are today. I am sick of fundamentalists (including atheists) and individuals/nations who act belligerently. It would be nice to build a rocket and put people like this pastor, bin Laden, Bush, Mullah Omar (If he even exists), Palin, etc... inside and shoot them into space.

[baka-kit.livejournal.com]

It's not so much "International" as it is "Tiny Redneck Town in Florida Koran Burning Day" but these small-minded hatemongers want to convince everyone that they're not backwards remnants from a more bigoted era.

If General Patreas asked them not to do it but they're going ahead despite the risk to the troops, it should show everybody exactly what kind of people they are, and how much concern they don't have for their fellow Americans.

[jixel.livejournal.com]

maybe we could burn bibles on dec 25th