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Pastor Terry Jones Says Afghan U.N. Violence 'Proves My Point'
ABC News ^ | April 1, 2011 | NICK SCHIFRIN, AGHA ALEEM, LEE FERRAN and MATT GUTMAN

Posted on 04/01/2011 5:09:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who oversaw the burning of a Koran last month, said he did not feel responsible for the violent protest at a United Nations compound in Afghanistan today that left at least 11 dead. Instead, he said the violence proved his point.

"We wanted to raise awareness of this dangerous religion and dangerous element," Jones said. "I think [today's attack] proves that there is a radical element of Islam."

As for the 11 dead, which included seven U.N. staffers and guards, Jones told "Nightline" anchor Bill Weir, "We do not feel responsible, no."

The deaths followed a protest march in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif today against the Koran burning. Jones supervised while another pastor, Wayne Sapp, soaked the Koran in kerosene and burned it.

"We decided to put the Koran on trail," he told Weir. "I was the judge but I did not determine the verdict. I was just a type of referee so that people got their time to defend or condemn the Koran."

Jones said that a "jury" of people from all over Florida debated the radicalism of Islam, and the "Koran was found guilty."

"If the Koran was found guilty then there were four forms of punishment: burning, shredding, grounding, a firing squad," he said. "The one that the people chose was burning. That is why the Koran was burned after it was found guilty."

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Florida; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; afghanistan; and; andheisright; attentionwhores; bookburning; dwo; firstamendment; florida; heisright; idiot; kenyanbornmuzzie; mosqueandstate; pravdamedia; waronterror; westboro
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To: arkady_renko

“The lead story on Google News screams all about the Pastor. The Pastor, as if he’s a serial killer!”

He’s a murderer. This scumbag did this knowing people would die...but he didn’t care, not if he could get some ink.

It would be a real shame if his building got burnt down.
/sarcasm


21 posted on 04/01/2011 6:09:49 PM PDT by Valin
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To: mewykwistmas
Unless the Afghan government executes the imam that started the riot, there is no purpose for us to stay in Afghanistan. Withdraw our troops .
22 posted on 04/01/2011 6:19:45 PM PDT by omegadawn (qualified)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Here come the boys from the South: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHibGC21VpQ&skipcontrinter=1


23 posted on 04/01/2011 6:22:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: omegadawn

The value of a Bible is much higher than 10 damned souls.

Even to this agnostic.


24 posted on 04/01/2011 6:23:06 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 799 of our national holiday from reality. - It's 3 AM, where is the 'president'?)
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To: arkady_renko
If I hadn't read it elsewhere earlier, I would not be aware that the frickin religion of peace zealots IN THE SAME COUNTRY THAT U.S. TROOPS ARE DYING IN sawed the heads off of two innocent UN workers there!

You're right. The US lamestream media are hiding the fact that at least two UN workers, most likely Europeans, were BEHEADED.

I am noticing other extreme political correctness in the reporting of this story.

Each time it is mentioned on ABC radio news, the newsreader carefully begins the story with "The demonstration began peacefully, but...."

ABC is trying to make it sound as if the demonstrators were nice decent fellas .... but some nasty men with knives just happened to show up and ruin the Kumbayah.

25 posted on 04/01/2011 6:23:37 PM PDT by shhrubbery!
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To: null and void

True , but the muslims make do with burning Bibles until they get a chance to burn churchs and kill Christians.


26 posted on 04/01/2011 6:28:10 PM PDT by omegadawn (qualified)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; a fool in paradise

A friend of mine is a Baptist minister and he has been talking online with a Saudi convert for the past several years. The man is hoping to get out of the country soon, for he is afraid his family might be growing suspicious and would either turn him over to the religious police or deal with him themselves, and he wouldn’t survive either encounter.


27 posted on 04/01/2011 6:38:10 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Democrats: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.")
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To: JimSEA

Why dont you come and visit me then and I’ll burn the Koran publically for you and we will see how quick you can take away my right to free speech with your pansy threat of violence.

You want Americans to be afraid of upsetting radical Islamists because they do not accept free speech?

Instead of displaying anger for these evil terrorist scum you instead want to squelch free speech with threats of violence?

I doubt that anyone with the type of fear you display will do much if face to face.

Yea let’s see our own troops target Americans for acts of free speech based upon your logic. For years upon years I have seen the left-wing give moral support to our enemy and claim that we have to support them and now you here at FR want to call for anyone burning a Koran in protest to be assualted by our troops? How many of the left-wing human shields and other left-wingers who supported the enemy got assaulted?

Pathetic!


28 posted on 04/01/2011 6:45:43 PM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: JimSEA; Valin

Bumping both of your posts.


29 posted on 04/01/2011 6:46:48 PM PDT by prairiebreeze ("We need to be in it to win it, and if there's doubt we need to get out". -- Palin on Libya.)
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To: TheBigIf

How is this different than yelling “FIRE!” in a crowded theater?


30 posted on 04/01/2011 6:50:23 PM PDT by prairiebreeze ("We need to be in it to win it, and if there's doubt we need to get out". -- Palin on Libya.)
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To: omegadawn

I’m not faulting your reasoning, only the quantity of the retribution. 10:1? Nah, maybe 1,000:1 or even higher?


31 posted on 04/01/2011 6:50:23 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 799 of our national holiday from reality. - It's 3 AM, where is the 'president'?)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
He should have beheaded the quran ala Nick Berg.
32 posted on 04/01/2011 6:50:43 PM PDT by BufordP ("Drink me if you can't take a joke." -- Kool-aid)
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To: prairiebreeze

Because their is no crowded theater at all. It is instead a terrorist movement that seeks to take away our rights.

That is a BIG difference that obviously you fail to see.


33 posted on 04/01/2011 6:52:56 PM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: omegadawn

See tagline.


34 posted on 04/01/2011 6:55:14 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: shhrubbery!

“You’re right. The US lamestream media are hiding the fact that at least two UN workers, most likely Europeans, were BEHEADED.”

They don’t want to make the crowd seem as extremists :)

In all seriousness, if we had no US soldiers in the ground, it would be totally different. But if this spreads, and it will, many 19 year old soldiers will pay with their lives. So the “preacher” had the right to do it, but...


35 posted on 04/01/2011 6:59:33 PM PDT by mewykwistmas (We can either have a free market economy or socialism, TARPers, GM and GE can't have it both ways.)
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To: mewykwistmas

Well not too long back I read about how young girls were not able to go out in public in certain parts of France without being beaten and raped unless they wore the burka.

Of course they had a right to go out without a burka but.....

Then of course there freedom of expression might upset the radical Islamists so I guess they shouldn’t do it.

Maybe we should go beat the crap out of anyone who trys to stand up for these girls. They may cause the radical Islamists to get upset and murder.


36 posted on 04/01/2011 7:05:10 PM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: Valin; JimSEA
I would think about visiting Pastor Jones on my return and kicking the sh!t out of this attention whore This scumbag did this knowing people would die...but he didn’t care, not if he could get some ink. It would be a real shame if his building got burnt down.

So what you're both suggesting is that we appease the rabid Islamist murderers.

And when do we get to stop appeasing them?

You know, it doesn't take a Koran burning to set off these cretins. A Danish cartoonist had to audacity to draw a cartoon with an imaginary Mohammad in it. PEOPLE WERE KILLED in the riots over ... a cartoon.

37 posted on 04/01/2011 7:06:57 PM PDT by shhrubbery!
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Sounds like some Muzzies need anger management classes.
38 posted on 04/01/2011 7:09:46 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: shhrubbery!; Valin; JimSEA

Both Valin and JimSEA suggested far more than just appeasing radical Islamists. They both suggested punishing anyone who dares not toe that line.

It is a not a shame if he gets burned down to the ground or beaten for his freedom of speech seemed to be the suggestion.

Pathetic!


39 posted on 04/01/2011 7:16:10 PM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: TheBigIf

I don’t hold the pastor to nearly the same level of blame as the killers or those that incited the mob. Yet, I can’t hold him blameless either.

Must sleep on the story and discussion, but this just hasn’t set right with me since reading it this afternoon.


40 posted on 04/01/2011 7:20:05 PM PDT by prairiebreeze ("We need to be in it to win it, and if there's doubt we need to get out". -- Palin on Libya.)
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