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Pastor Terry Jones inspires fear, sadness among local Muslims
Orlando Sentinel ^ | April 5, 2011 | Jeff Kunerth

Posted on 04/06/2011 6:29:24 AM PDT by inflorida

For Imam Muhammad Musri, watching the mobs in Afghanistan incited to violence last Friday by the burning of a Quran by Gainesville Pastor Terry Jones was like a nightmare come true. He feared it, he foresaw it, he felt helpless to prevent it.

This is what Musri thought he had prevented last fall when he persuaded Jones to drop his plans to burn the holy book of Islam on the anniversary of 9/11. Instead, it was just a delayed reaction when angered Afghans overran U.N. offices and killed seven civilians.

"Muslims are outraged, but there is nothing we can do. We fully understand who Terry Jones is. This guy is a nut job," said Musri, president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida.

Orlando's Muslim community felt sadness, helplessness and fear while watching from afar as extremists on both sides, Christian and Islam, put their worst behavior on display to confirm their worst opinions of each other. While Central Florida Muslims felt the Afghan mobs no more represented Islam than Jones represented Christianity, they worried about becoming victims of retaliation by Christian extremists.

"There was a great deal of fear that it might cause a backlash here. There is too much hatred in the air," Musri said.

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: fear; muslims; pastor
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1 posted on 04/06/2011 6:29:30 AM PDT by inflorida
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To: inflorida; tx_eggman

What a coincidence... local Muslims inspire fear, sadness in true Americans.


2 posted on 04/06/2011 6:30:28 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (In 2012 you will awaken from your HOPEnosis and have no recollection of this... "Constitution")
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To: inflorida

“Muslims are outraged but there is nothing we can do”

Except kill innocents, or make excuses for the throwbacks who are doing so


3 posted on 04/06/2011 6:31:47 AM PDT by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: inflorida

“We fully understand who Terry Jones is. This guy is a nut job”

And the murderous Muslims are not?


4 posted on 04/06/2011 6:33:30 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: inflorida
Orlando's Muslim community felt sadness, helplessness and fear

Does this mean you're leaving, never to come back?

5 posted on 04/06/2011 6:34:27 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Imagine.... a world without islam.)
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To: inflorida

When they say “nothing we can do”, they mean that they don’t know of a way to kill Mr. Jones yet.


6 posted on 04/06/2011 6:35:20 AM PDT by Soothesayer (smallpox is not a person)
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To: inflorida
"There was a great deal of fear that it might cause a backlash here. There is too much hatred in the air," Musri said.

El Toro Pooh-Pooh!

7 posted on 04/06/2011 6:37:49 AM PDT by papertyger
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To: inflorida

Its a real shame we don’t have Patton or MacArthur running the show in Afghanistan. They wouldn’t tolerate this kind of nonsense.


8 posted on 04/06/2011 6:38:10 AM PDT by utherdoul
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To: inflorida
We fully understand who Terry Jones is. This guy is a nut job," said Musri

A guy burns a book, and some blood thirsty savages kill people completely unrelated to the event, and Terry Jones is the nut job?

It is hard to assail such ironclad logic. (sarc)
9 posted on 04/06/2011 6:38:10 AM PDT by ZX12R
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To: inflorida

Burning the Koran and Killing 7 people are equal? I don’t think so. While I don’t see any sense in burning the Koran, it no where compares to the reaction of the Muslims.


10 posted on 04/06/2011 6:44:15 AM PDT by sugarbabe
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To: ScottinVA

No-It means they are building a SCUD missile in their basement.


11 posted on 04/06/2011 6:45:13 AM PDT by SMARTY (Conforming to non-conformity is conforming just the same.)
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To: inflorida

What a shame.

Muslims feeling fear.

Too bad.

Complain about your fear and horror to Christians caught behind the satanic walls of any muslim craphole.

muslims don’t like certain aspects of the American experience? Leave! NOW!


12 posted on 04/06/2011 6:45:50 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: inflorida
Ann Barnhardt Burns her koran
13 posted on 04/06/2011 6:47:38 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: inflorida

Taqiyya!


14 posted on 04/06/2011 6:48:15 AM PDT by Dedbone
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To: inflorida

If you’re scared, leave. Book a flight today on a nice, convertible jet.


15 posted on 04/06/2011 6:49:00 AM PDT by RockinRight ([insert tagline here])
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To: SpinnerWebb

bttt


16 posted on 04/06/2011 6:52:40 AM 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: inflorida
they worried about becoming victims of retaliation by Christian extremists.

They have no more to worry about than before it was burned. We do not behave the way they do.

Terry Jones may or may not be a nut job, I don't know him, but burning a book does not make him into anything.

17 posted on 04/06/2011 6:52:59 AM PDT by rightly_dividing (1 Cor. 15: 1-14)
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To: inflorida

The Muslims need to deal with their own and tell them to grow a thicker skin.


18 posted on 04/06/2011 6:53:37 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: inflorida

If Terry Jones is inspiring fear and sadness in the Arab population, then he should be hailed as a true American patriot. We shouldn’t go along with the liberal media and Hussein Osama’s coalition of cronies in denigrating him, but should instead recognize him as a force to scare off potential and actual terrorists living in America. It’s a shame that Jones has to do the work the government should be doing in dealing with Islam.


19 posted on 04/06/2011 6:53:37 AM PDT by Objective Scrutator (Liberals will kill your family if they are keeping a Democrat from a Congressional seat)
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Jones has the ability to make a huge statement on political correctness and the double standard that allows acceptance of anti-Christian works in the US.

He should submerge a Koran in urine and call it “Piss-Koran”. He should then ask for $15,000 for the work from the taxpayer-funded National Endowment for the Arts. If he is refused and attacked for his “bigotry”, he should ask why the work “Piss Christ” got just such a deal from tax payers.


20 posted on 04/06/2011 6:54:04 AM PDT by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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