Church plans to burn Quran on 9/11
The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville is hosting "International Burn a Quran Day" on the 9th anniversary of September 11th!
The Church and its senior pastor Terry Jones says that Islam is "a violent and oppressive religion that is trying to mascarade itself as a religion of peace, seeking to deceive our society." He believes that all non-violent, non-oppressive religions celebrate peace by burning the holy books of other churches (sic).
The protest comes about a year after the Church put up a crude "Islam is of the Devil" sign out front. Incidently, Jones has written an entire book of the same name which includes ten handy reasons why it's totally cool to burn Korans.
The church has set up a Facebook page for the group, which for has already attracted a number of comments posting anti-semitic images.
While Jones mainly seems to be set on hating on Muslim, he occasionally finds time to hate gays too. Gainesville recently elected openly gay politician Craig Lowe as Mayor, and of course Dove World campaigned hard against him. On his inauguration day they'll be hosting a "No Homo Mayor" protest at city hall.
As for the Quran burning, we just have to wonder if Sarah Palin will ask peace-seeking Christians to "refudiate" the protest, as it's unnecessary provocation that stabs hearts or will this be the beginning of a new unrest in the country!
The Church and its senior pastor Terry Jones says that Islam is "a violent and oppressive religion that is trying to mascarade itself as a religion of peace, seeking to deceive our society." He believes that all non-violent, non-oppressive religions celebrate peace by burning the holy books of other churches (sic).
The protest comes about a year after the Church put up a crude "Islam is of the Devil" sign out front. Incidently, Jones has written an entire book of the same name which includes ten handy reasons why it's totally cool to burn Korans.
The church has set up a Facebook page for the group, which for has already attracted a number of comments posting anti-semitic images.
While Jones mainly seems to be set on hating on Muslim, he occasionally finds time to hate gays too. Gainesville recently elected openly gay politician Craig Lowe as Mayor, and of course Dove World campaigned hard against him. On his inauguration day they'll be hosting a "No Homo Mayor" protest at city hall.
As for the Quran burning, we just have to wonder if Sarah Palin will ask peace-seeking Christians to "refudiate" the protest, as it's unnecessary provocation that stabs hearts or will this be the beginning of a new unrest in the country!
