Posted on 03/24/2011 9:37:17 AM PDT by Nachum
Well, Florida pastor Terry Jones has gone and done it. The evangelical minister, who threatened last September 11 to burn a copy of the Koran and then backed down in the face of public pressure, has made good on his incendiary promise. With 30 people present as witnesses, he set fire to a copy of the embattled religious text.
And, as happens in the event of real or imagined slights, the other shoe summarily dropped. No sooner had Jones fired up his Bic than an Islamic “court” in Pakistan found him guilty of the crime of desecrating the religion’s most holy book. The court then issued a fatwa—loosely translated as “death order—against him, as is their wont.
But here is where the story gets interesting. Pakistan’s Jamaat-ud-Dawah, a banned Islamic organization and suspected terrorist group, announced a bounty of 10 crore rupees for anyone who fulfills the fatwa on Jones. In case you’re wondering, that amount is equivalent to around $2.2 million—not exactly chicken feed. What ever happened to 72 virgins?
I became curious about whether this most supernal of religions actually sanctions killings for hire, so I did a little digging and found that indeed it does. One of the most famous examples of a fee-for-service fatwa involved Taslima Nasreen, an exiled Bangladeshi writer, who had been targeted for execution by Indian Muslim scholars. After Juma prayers at the Tipu Sultan mosque in Calcutta, Majidulla Khan Farhad announced “unlimited financial reward” to anybody who would kill the author.
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Ohhhhhhhhh, that kind of stuff could NEVER happen in THIS country. /sarc
The pastor OWNED the book in question I would bet.
This means its his property to burn if he sees fit.
Yes, yes you are!
Meanwhile, I am a Godzilla variant.
Dearest Members of Jamaat-ud-Dawah:
Please send half of the reward for necessary expenses - small bills, US currency. If (I’m sorry, I mean WHEN) the job is completed, I will send for the rest.
They do if they find them. Generally they don’t burn bibles because their countries don’t allow bibles to be in the country. If found on entry, they are confiscated and destroyed.
Those who participate in a fatwa against any American will be judged and punished by God, we will make sure they get to trial, that’s all.
That...that has to be one of the absolutely funniest pictures of a koran I have seen ever. I mean...really...did you do that? ROFL!!!
Where do we go to collect, Abdul? It might just be a charity case.
Multiculturalism: be there or beheaded.
PING!
What we need is 300,000 Americans burning a copy of the Koran everywhere in America.
And then more.
They can’t kill all of us.
And any more Americans killed on our soil by terrorists—Mecca and Medina go.
Allah Fubar!
Let’s ginn up the ante, shall we? I can turn the other butt cheek as well as the next sand flea. Would you like to wipe your ass first?
Please give more detail on this woody allen, jackie mason thing. Are you saying they are under a kill order from Israel? And george soros isn’t? What?
“Family Guy” ... Seth Green ... Cartoon Network
Huh?
How do they destroy the Bibles, burn ‘em?
Well, goose, gander, and all that.
Burning the Koran is the easy way out, better to grind them up and pulp them then recycle the paper for making porno magazines that you then dump out of a plane over mecca.
Would they consider the porno magazines holy as they came from a former koran?
I wonder if Pastor Jones is going to live up to his promise to burn the Talmud next. And if he does, will the Jews put bounty on his head also?
What? Defile my ass with that dirty book? ............... Depends.
The problems with the koran burning and the WTC Mosque
In all this argument of recent days, the most important fact of the matter has been obvious from the start, but is rarely spoken of by the media or the public.
Regarding the Florida koran burning, has anyone stepped back and listened to what people are saying in detail? The first thing a person will hear is how that Pastor has the Constitutional right to do what he is doing.
The next series of statements, however, are always the majority of statements made in these conversations, namely: It is the wrong thing to do, it is inciteful, it is a cult in Florida, muslims will hate us, it will endanger the troops, and, most importantly for this conversation: we are not at war against a religion, but extremists of that religion.
This is important because of the islamic world’s reaction to this Florida Pastor; namely, that the islamic world immediately protested the planned koran burning by condemning the entire country of the United States and marched and chanted promoting our deaths to cries of “DEATH TO AMERICA!”
The response by virtually all American politicians has been an apologetic tone, one where they immediately call for the koran burning to stop, observations that it IS inciteful and that the threats to Americans at home and American Troops abroad are not acceptable and that the safety of the American public are paramount in this case.
Their tone has been to cower in fear at these threats. Not one politician has stepped forward and exclaimed, “Islam is not being attacked by an entire country or an entire religion, Islam is only being attacked by a radical. Islam needs to remember we are not all against Islam and threats to our safety are wrong and inciteful and hate filled.”
Not one. They cower to the islamic world, refuse to hold them to the same standard of behavior as they insist from their own people, refuse to insist that the Pastor in Florida is an anomaly and that the United States is no threat to islam.
What they did was bow in submission to the sensitivities of the islamic world and deny the Florida Pastor his civil rights to speak out like an American.
The islamic world will not notice. They will riot anyways. It is identical to the cartoonists in Denmark. All it took was one cartoonist to make a cartoon of Muhammad and the entire islamic world was in the streets and threatening to kill anyone who makes a cartoon of Muhammad.
Theo Van Gogh made a movie about this islamic submission in Holland, and they killed him for making the movie.
The Florida Koran burning case is quite similar to the Ground Zero mosque case with some significant differences. In Florida, the Pastor must stop his koran burning or there will be violence across the globe, and in fact, even if he does stop, there will be violence across the globe due to him stating he wanted to burn korans. In New York City, the Imam who wants to build a mosque 2 blocks away from Ground Zero, he said on CNN that if we move the mosque or deny it’s construction, there will be violence across the globe.
In both cases, if we do not submit to islamic sensitivities, there will be violence across the globe, in fact, even if we do submit to islamic sensitivities, there will most likely be violence anyways due to the fact that we spoke of those things.
Free speech is threatened in Florida, and a new twist is happening in New York City, something that Israel has seen does not work, and that is LAND FOR PEACE.
The Ground Zero mosque is about LAND FOR PEACE. If we give islam the land to make a mosque, there will be peace. If we do not give islam the land, there will be violence.
Think this through people. In both of these cases, neither has anything to do with the original concerns people expressed. It is solely about whether we submit to islamic sensitivities or have violence.
It is about Islamic blackmail of the United States.
James Bancroft USMC 1977-1981
Nothing will Help Terry Jones cause . Three weeks ago him and a few of his followers threw crosses at a Muslim in prayer, at the White House. This guy is a idiot!!
(Mrs) T
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