Messages of intolerance and discrimination are polluting public discourse as the 9/11 anniversary approaches. Human Righs First reports that the "Ground Zero Mosque" debate trivializes the real tragedy of 9/11 and uses it as an excuse for bigotry. It also distracts from the new false flag, the Gulf of Mexico operation in which people at Ground Zero cry out for compassionate national support.
A small group in Florida is supporting a "Burn a Koran" event on September 11th "sponsored by a church, of all places," says Human Rights First.
The Florida church has posted on their website "10 Reasons to Burn a Koran."
"Human Rights First is working with an interfaith movement to affirm religious solidarity and tolerance," the group reports today.
"Unfortunately, the 'Burn a Koran' day is still dominating media coverage both at home and abroad.
"Help us push back. Send us your top reason NOT to burn a Koran—we'll select the top 10 answers, post them on our website and online to make sure the other side is heard in this debate."
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Burn the Koran? Burn every book written to pay homage to the unseen,uneffective
so called God supposedly to protect and cherish us.
The bigots reading and proclaiming the truth's have caused more mayhem,murderous wars and just plain stupidity for no more reason then to be fed and watered without having to work for a living.
How a thinking person can possibly believe in the crap that contradicts itself ever other sentence is beyond belief.
The whole mass of humanity is kept in slavery because of BELIEF!
Wake up! and use the brains you got to see!
We are the only animal willing to serve a deity that has no visible presence because
some clever dick decided that he was sick of working to get the necessities of life.
for the last 6000 years we have suffered its effects.
BURN THE LOT before we get saddled with the next prophet proclaiming he had a dream
given by God and hoilding us to ransom!
The issue is the bigotry that incites people to burn Qurans and not "burning every book written to pay homage to the unseen,uneffective so called God supposedly to protect and cherish us...".
You are confused and overcome by your own intolerance of other people's faiths. You also dismiss the racist bigotry being propagated by zionists, fringe Christian groups and fascist America against a minority that practices a particular religion as being unimportant compared to your amorphous and generalised opinion.
BURN!!!
Well they say history repeats itself and now look we have another stupid old man ready to start a war.
I seriously hope the feds step in and stop this not job before thousands (more) young people have to lose their lives because of a STUPID OLD MAN.
Many of this country's people are as desperate for education as developing countries. There just as scary and they don't even know it.
I fully agree with "anonimous", it is appaling to find a sign of the so-called church of scientology which has led it's members to bankrupt and suicide. But the worst of all, Islam is anything but a religion, it's a political systems based on threat, murder and crimes ever since the beginning. Mohamed was cruel, pedophile, violent and manipulator, nothing has changed ever since. Muslims are brainwashed so as to refer to a 1400 year-old "religion". What do they do today ? create industry ? freedom ? happiness ? they stone to death, hang, imprison whoever does not structly obey the rules of the chariah. They burn american and other flags and we should accept that ? they put a constant pressure on the western world to impose their traditions and dehumanize men and women. They hate women and give them less freedom that a domestic animal. They burn bibles and torahs and we should remain silent. No way. The free world has been waiting long enough, it's time to stand up and show them we are fed up. Keep standing and kick them out of Europe and America. Look at the most recent pressure the Hamas has put in Gaza : separation of sexes in schools, obligation for girls to hide their hair, even non-muslims. You call that religion ? I don't. Look at Sakineh in Iran who has been sentenced to stoning for "illegal sex", think of all the christians and animists still being castrated in Sudan. You call that a religion ? I don't. 9 years after we have 3000 reasons to burn kurans and kick out the invaders. Our freedom is at this price.
Burn this satanic book. Excellent move by peace lovers.
Your worried about a book being burned. While moslems rape, kill and enslave Christians in Africa. Get real!
I have many freinds from Africa. None have mentioned anything like this. If this was true it would be all over the news channels as they're always looking at ways to have a go at Muslims but obviously just another lie.
Is there a reason you neglected to mention the US sanctioned, funded and armed assault on the Palestinian state, or the illegal occupations and illegal use of depleted uranium in Iraq and Afahanistan, just for starters? Or is it only Christians you care about? Are all people equally human, and equally entitled to human rights? And you attack the title of the article, said title was quite effective in getting you here, do you take the title so seriously, or are you being, um, let's be generous and say disingenuous? How about the way our troops behave, or does that not count? How about you get real?
My wife is an African and we have 3 lovely children.
I am a Muslim and she is a Christian, get that ?
The Koran is similar to Mein Kampf in that it lays out instructions to kill. In this case, infidels. That's us. I think Islam should be regarded more as a cult. If you choose not to believe that they will do what their book tells them to do, that's your opinion.
You simply cannot argue with this kind of ignorance. You need to pay less attention to what other people are reading and pick up a book yourself. Start with "One Fish, Two Fish", or maybe "Green Eggs and Ham".
i guess I should say that I have not read the Koran. If I am mistaken, let me know. But it is not my opinion alone.
My freind how can you comment on something you've never read? More importantly, ask yourself why people are trying to make you hate other people. Muslims revere Jesus just like Christians. The Koran has a whole chapter dedicated to the life of Mary, mother of Jesus, the bible barely mentions her. If a priest is telling you to burn the Koran then he doesn't know whats inside. There's a clip on youtube called something like "how christians used to pray" or similar. Have a look.
I strongly suggest you refrain from spouting zionist propaganda until you have read the Quran. Muslims are instructed to kill non believers who wage war on them. NOWHERE does it say to kill unless attacked. A lot of verses are taken out of context so one needs to be familiar with the whole in order to understand.
Well, I HAVE read what Schopenhauer called "this wretched book," the Koran, and there are some eminently burn-worthy pages in it, I can assure you. For a brief assay of some of the more incendiary ones, let me refer you to Geert Wilders' short film "Fitna," which is widely accessible on the internet. As for reasons NOT to burn it: some innocents may experience serious blowback from outraged Muslims elsewhere in the world. Why provoke them?
Ever read the old testament? Yahweh! Nice chap.
As far as I'm concerned, Burn the Quran Day is nothing but a big tempure tantrum by some faithless people who have no strength. A bunch of three year olds who are losing faith in their own weak religion, and becoming desperate. It exposes the envy of the Church and makes us even more proud to be Muslim. I may write a book exposing the church for what it realy is- a bunch of faithless heathens who won't burn the satanic bible, but they'll burn the Quran. And I pray that Allah burn every member of the Florida in Hell, along with their church of satan comrads who they obviously support.
You are not helping your cause. Indeed, you merely play into the hands of this "Satan" that you appear to denounce. It is this kind of ignorant belligerance and condescending self-righteousness that only serves to further the goals of darkness. We are all HUMAN. We are all in this TOGETHER. If we cannot realize that and start working with each other in peace and goodwill, we shall ALL perish. God will not save you because you "chose the right book to believe in". If you believe that, you're no better than the Talmudic Zionists...
@Anonymous: Everything you just said was irrelevant to my statement. At least prove me wrong if you're going to oppose my view. Or consider the facts I said to be true. Let me help you understand where I'm comming from:
1. Islamic Victory means that our very presence and population explosion on earth has the demons to come out of hiding. Not out of the closet, but out of the church.
2. Florida Christians have a history of burning things out of fear- they used to burn Black people. Rembember Rosewood?
3. Muslims have commited Quran to memory. If you burned every Quran on earth, the Quran will still exist in the hearts and minds of Muslims. Within a short period the Quran will reappear in writting. So burning the Quran is a vain passtime.
4. Uthman, the 3rd Muslim Khalifah, burned several copies of the Quran during his rule. So the shock value of such a thing was exhausted 1,400 years ago.
5. The Church of Satan, Temple of Set, etc, are products of this so-called Christian country. If the Christians were allied with Christ and not satan, they would burn the satanic bible, not the Quran which has beautiful verses about Jesus (AS). When they burn the Quran they will be burning the names of Jesus, Moses, David, Noah, Solomon, Mary, Abraham, etc.- these names are obviously more offensive to Christians than anything written in the Satanic Bible.
6. Allah is sufficient to support His own cause. Whoever Allah guides, none can misguide. And whoever Allah does not guide, none can guide.
Besides, the Florida Church leader looks like a human devil. So to hell with him and his blind followers. And to Hell with anyone who supports them.
For those of you who believe its correct to burn Quran over some kill verses that you take out of context, then you should burn the bible which is saturated with kill verses.
Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
Kill Witches
You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17 NAB)
Kill Homosexuals
"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
Death for Hitting Dad
Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)
Death for Cursing Parents
1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)
2) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
Death for Adultery
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
Death for Fornication
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
Kill Nonbelievers
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
There are way too many bible kill verses to post here. But these should be suffificient to expose the hypocricy of church people (ant-christ). If you really practice what you preach, then you'll burn the bible immediately and condemn the church for establishing a tradition of homosexual child rape in America.
And what about that perverted baby-raping Mohammed you think so highly of?
Of course everything you have written is either a distortion or completely out of context. This list of inaccuracies often pedalled by zionists and swallowed by insouciant American dumbdumbs is meant to deceive those not familiar with Islam.
By making your comment to people who have read the Quran and Hadith, you come across as a primitive buffoon; the perfect ugly American.
These same zionists that feed you hate memes are often Talmudists that curse Jesus to be boiled is a cauldron full of semen and faeces in Hell.
It's worth noting that all your so-called Biblical "kill verses" hail from the Old Testament (Torah) with the exception of the last, which in fact is not an exhortation to kill at all, but merely a recounted fact of history. Inference: you couldn't get any dirt on the Christian Scripture so you thought you'd toss this meaningless quote in just to mislead people. As for the Pentateuch passages, they are effectively dead letters rather than "kill verses" insofar as they've not been acted upon for centuries, (millennia in the case of the Jews). Nice try, CDB!
It looks like the moslems are going to start killing, raping, and/or enslaving in Florida(See last comment).
Terry Jones works for Jewry.
He should be burning the Jewish Talmud but would never insult his masters and bite the hand that feeds him......
Jewish TALMUD:
"All Gentile Children are Animals"-Yebamoth 98a
Jesus was born a Bastard and his mother, Mary, was a Whore (Mishna Yebamoth 4,13
A girl of the age of 3 may be Violated... (Niddah 44b)
"When a Jew murders a gentile there will be no death penalty. What he steals, he may keep." --Sanhedrin 57a
Death of Gentiles by Beheading is recommended (Pesachim, 49b)
Baba Kamma 113a. Jews may use lies ("subterfuges") to circumvent a Gentile.
Just how many non-moslems do you see killing, raping and/or enslaving in the name of religion. It is not what the Bible or koran says that should worry anyone. It is the believers in said books that one should watch. moslems are in arrested development.
You're right. Makes you wonder why the media only have negative stories about Muslims. Why do the media want you to hate a religion? Whats the agenda. I read somewhere that in the U.S. a person is murdered every minute. A woman is raped every six minutes and we won't even mention slavery. I dont think you can put that down to muslims.
send a muslim into the fire with every koran. get rid of them all now.
Fitting name, ignorant child.
Do you know what that mean praying five times a day? indoctrination, brain wash Take your Koran and get out where you are coming from. Your intentions are well known. Koran and Bible don't come from God, but made to control people
If you own a TV you have no right to speak.
So if you pray 5 times a day, i.e ask god for good health, to look after your family, thank him for looking after you etc that means you're brain washed then? what a braindead moron you are.
It is what they would like to do to you with their stupid, primitive so called religion.
I am always surprised by those religion-hating bigots who claim how many murders and wars and how much enslavement has occurred because of religion. It is a specious point to make. Often they go as far as to suggest there will be peace and harmony, but for the ignorance of religion.
You are MISINFORMED or willfully blind by your bigotry to the real facts: Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, and Kim Yong Il and other Agnostic and Atheistic governments are responsible for the largest and most recent acts of inhumanity. Under Stalin's atheistic government alone, as many as 40 million were killed or enslaved and worked to death, many of them Christians. Atheism and Agnosticism are greater threats to peace, freedom, and humanity than any religion today. Those are the facts.
WELL SAID.
And where are your fine examples now? And how many followers do they still have? Mohammed deserves no better.
You are the example Toxick. You who wanted to burn people with their religious books (as you stated above) are the new Hitlers of this world and proved the point made above. A religion hating bigot.
It is simply because its a Holy book just like Bible from one GOD. So don`t burn yourself.
One fifth of Earth's population (about 1.57 billion people) call themselves Muslim. God forbid you talk to one of them to see what they really think. Of course, it appears you already know what's on the mind of every last one...
If I were in an Islamic country and decided to burn the
Christian Bible then it would constitute an act of sacrilege.
If that Islamic country were Saudi Arabia then my head would
be forfeit.
In any other Islamic country I would expect to go to the
slammers for a long time indeed probably with about
80 whips thrown in for good measure..
The penalty I would receive would not be just for show
or whether or nott it is covered in the news.
It is as simple as that with our Muslim brethren.
Thank you for this wonderful insight.
Thank you. Seems our "Christian" neighbors have forgotten "What ye do to the least of my brothers" - not that Muslims are lesser in any way - but are persecuted as such was the pirit of the text it seems. Anyway, I apologize for the media/Disinformation campaign against your faith and people and for all the Americans who have bought it hook, line and sinker. Time for people to gatheer and learn from each other - go for best practices. As a human race - we have far greater challenges and need to combine resource instea of letting the NWO divide and conquer more easily.
By that logic, we should have a Burn a Talmud day too since Israel has been nothing but a detriment to our country for many years getting us into needless wars and siphoning money when we should be helping our own people and economy first! Israel first? That's fine for people in Israel, but here in the U.S. we need to put AMERICA FIRST!
EXACTLY. You are all being DUPED. Islam is NOT the enemy.
Burn the Talmud instead - it's a book filled with hate of all non-jews
Hi,
Does this ayates mean we have to kill and do whatever is evil ?
O you humans! surely We have created you of a male and a female, and made you tribes and families that you may know each other; surely the most honorable of you with Allah is the one among you most careful (of his duty); surely Allah is Knowing, Aware. Quran 49.13
O you who believe! Be upright for Allah, bearers of witness with justice, and let not hatred of a people incite you not to act equitably; act equitably, that is nearer to piety, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah; surely Allah is Aware of what you do. Quran 5.8
Allah does not forbid you respecting those who have not made war against you on account of (your) religion, and have not driven you forth from your homes, that you show them kindness and deal with them justly; surely Allah loves the doers of justice. Quran 60.8
Best regards.
Hi,
Does this ayates mean we have to kill and do whatever is evil ?
O you humans! surely We have created you of a male and a female, and made you tribes and families that you may know each other; surely the most honorable of you with Allah is the one among you most careful (of his duty); surely Allah is Knowing, Aware. Quran 49.13
O you who believe! Be upright for Allah, bearers of witness with justice, and let not hatred of a people incite you not to act equitably; act equitably, that is nearer to piety, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah; surely Allah is Aware of what you do. Quran 5.8
Allah does not forbid you respecting those who have not made war against you on account of (your) religion, and have not driven you forth from your homes, that you show them kindness and deal with them justly; surely Allah loves the doers of justice. Quran 60.8
Best regards.
All 3 semitic religeons are simply screenplays written afew hundreds years later simply to brainwash & enslave humans. Unfortunately, the damage is so deep that is unlikely to undo, and the sheeple walks to slaughter house every day. So sad.
Bravo! Finally - truth is written.
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