The Dove World Outreach Center, AKA the "Quran Burning Church," has been booted off the Web. At least two accounts attributed to the church, hosted by Rackspace, a web hosting service based in Texas, have been booted off the Internet.
However, while Dove World says this is a violation of their right to free speech, RackSpace says that the issue for them is contractual, not freedom of speech. Rackspace said that the church violated the "hate-speech provision of our acceptable-use policy."
That statement came from Rackspace spokesman Dan Goodgame, who added that "This is not a constitutional issue. This is a contract issue." Reportedly, Dove World had until midnight Wednesday night to find another host or remove its content, and as they did not, Rackspace shut them down.
The two sites in question were the Dove World site itself, as well as a site dedicated to a book by the pastor of the church, Terry Jones, called IslamIsOfTheDevil.com. While both sites are currently down, there are cached versions available that can be viewed.
The furor around the church, at least this time, is a "Burn a Koran Day" even that Jones and the church have planned for Saturday, Sept. 11, which would be the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Many have warned Jones that such an act would endanger troops overseas. The Vatican said that burning the Quran would be an "outrageous and grave gesture."
Even GOP pundit Sarah Palin spoke against the burning of the Quran, saying on Facebook that:
I would hope that Pastor Terry Jones and his supporters will consider the ramifications of their planned book-burning event. It will feed the fire of caustic rhetoric and appear as nothing more than mean-spirited religious intolerance. Don’t feed that fire. If your ultimate point is to prove that the Christian teachings of mercy, justice, freedom, and equality provide the foundation on which our country stands, then your tactic to prove this point is totally counter-productive.
According to Gainesville mayor Craig Lowe, on an interview with NPR, Dove World's permit to burn the Quran was denied. Gene Prince, the interim chief of Gainesville Fire Rescue, said earlier that under the city’s fire prevention ordinance, an open burning of books is not allowed.
Update: Jones has agreed to cancel the burning, as reported by AP. AP says that he did that in a tit-for-tat move, where the Islamic cultural center in New York City, also the center of a firestorm, would be moved. The AP said that was unconfirmed; meanwhile the New York Times said that Jones would meet with the imam involved in the center, also noting the agreement.
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I think we are becoming a nation of politically-correct dhimmis. I don't agree with what this guy is doing, but we do have a 1st Amendment. Or, rather, we used to have a 1st Amendment.
He used his 1st ammendment rights. No one is stopping him from saying what he wants, in fact he's received a lot of media attention allowing the whole world to hear what what he wants to say. If the website had in the contract that the site was not to be used for hate speech, then they had the right to refuse service. He is welcome to find someone else to host his hate speech, no one is stopping him. People speaking out against him isn't an invasion of his 1st ammendment rights. The government putting him in jail for what he said would be, but that's not going to happen. We all have the right to say whatever we want, and everyone else has the right to disagree with us. None of that has changed.
This is not a tech article and should be under news
Rubber meets the road when free enterprise is involved. An interesting take on this story. Very well done.
I think its a shame that the dove outreach center even allow this " pastor" to represent them. This man is a disgrace to all Christians. This is a hate crime against Islam , I am so ashamed to call this man an American ......what a man of god.... hahhhh yea right. A pastor would never do a hate crime like this, and for anyone of you that go to his church.......run, run as fast as you can because you are with a false prophet .this man makes Americans n Christians look horrible. I know I will be praying for this so called pastor, I hope and pray that god speaks to you and touches your heart.....
terry jones is crazy,damn,shit,pig and fucking guy in the world
Capture anything you like but first answer this:
WHO WROTE KORAN?
a.= The Koran says a Christian wrote the Koran for Mohammad .....for cash!!
so, why in hell are you peddling a fake book and religion?
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