The nut-case pastor of a tiny 50-member pseudo-Christian church in Florida, Terry Jones, who plans to burn 200 copies or so of the holy text of Islam, the Quran, may be the cause of a yet-unknown number of American deaths. The pastor and his tiny congregation may be bringers of death and nothing more.
Here is what Mohammad Mukhtar, a Muslim cleric in Afghanistan and a candidate for the Afghan Parliament, had to say: "It is the duty of Muslims to react when their holy book Quran gets burned in public, then there is nothing left. If this happens, I think the first and most important reaction will be that wherever Americans are seen, they will be killed. No matter where they will be in the world they will be killed."
American military commanders in the field usually stay out of domestic politics, but General David Petraeus, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan told the press, "images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan — and around the world — to inflame public opinion and incite violence."
Even the United Nations has taken a stand against Terry Jones and his band of idiots. Staffan de Mistura, director of the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan, expressed concern and outrage "in the strongest possible terms," and added, "If such an abhorrent act were to be implemented, it would only contribute to fueling the arguments of those who are indeed against peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan."
September 11th is not a day for crazy religious fanatics to argue among themselves. Neither is September 11th a day for hatred and killing and rock-throwing. It should be an international day of remembrance and a day of peace. It should be a day when the peoples of the world resolve to stand against terrorism in any form.
Terry Jones is just an uneducated knucklehead who has become an advocate for terror and violence. Jones is a crackpot and he should be summarily ignored by everyone. Maybe he would dry up and blow away.
Jones and his little collection of misfits in Gainsville, Florida are today as much a threat to our national security as Osama bin Laden and they are a more dangerous threat to us than Saddam Hussein ever was.
Crazy Christians are just as dangerous to Americans as crazy Muslims and we have a lot more loose-cannon Christians in this country than Muslims. Some of those traditional-looking back-woods country churches are more dangerous than any mosque in this country.
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