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Is This What Jesus Teaches?... I don't Think So...
Posted : 1 Apr, 2011 08:50 PM
Months later, Terry Jones burns a Quran anyway; protests in Afghanistan result in 12 deaths
By Cooper Levey-Baker | 04.01.11 | 2:49 pm | The Florida Independent
The BBC is reporting that an attack on a UN compound in northern Afghanistan has left at least 12 people dead, and that the source of the violence was a protest over the recent burning of a Quran in a Florida church.
From the BBC:
On 20 March, Pastor Wayne Sapp set light to a copy of the Koran at a church in Florida.
The burning took place under the supervision of Terry Jones, another US pastor who last year drew condemnation over his aborted plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Protests were held in several other Afghan cities on Friday � which demonstrators in Herat had called a �day of anger�, Afghanistan�s Noor TV channel reports.
The BBC�s Paul Wood in Kabul says Mazar-e Sharif is known to be a relatively peaceful part of the country, but that the Florida incident will raise questions of whether the city will be able to make the transition from foreign to Afghan security control later this year.
Update:The New York Times has more:
[Lal Mohammad] Ahmadzai, the [Afghan National Police] spokesman, said the demonstrators were angry about the burning of the Koran at the church of Pastor Terry Jones on Mar. 20. Mr. Jones had caused an international uproar by threatening to burn the Koran last year on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and demonstrations at the time led to deaths throughout Afghanistan, but on a small scale. Mr. Jones subsequently had publicly promised not to burn a Koran, but then presided over a mock trial and the burning of the Koran at his small fringe church in Gainesville, Fla.Fran Ingram, an assistant at the Dove World Outreach Center, in Gainesville, Fla., said that the church had burned the Koran after a ceremony on March 20.
�We put the Koran on trial and we did burn it,� she said. Ms. Ingram said she and other church members were no more concerned about their safety than before the burning and the killings of the United Nations workers in Afghanistan. �We have a huge stack of death threats,� she said. �We take precautions. I have a handgun. A lot of us have concealed weapons permits. We�re a small church and we don�t have money to hire security.�
After news of the attack, Mr. Jones, released a statement expressing no regret for the Koran burning. He called the attack on the compound �a very tragic and criminal action� and called on the United States and the United Nations to take action. �The time has come to hold Islam accountable,� he said.
Is This What Jesus Teaches?... I don't Think So...
Posted : 4 Apr, 2011 07:49 AM
Tony, if what Jones did was not an evil act, then what was good about it based on God's principles? ..not your personal opinion and your principles... but God's according to what He says.. And if call what Jones did good then it will agree with what God calls good, and line up with scripture so surely you have a passages to supoort you calling evil good.
God says we are to rightly judge not based on own own opinions but according to His word and His righteousness, and not call good evil, and evil good, right worng and wrong right.. Jones provoked anger and violence and murder of innocent people, because of his own evilness. Again what positive and good did he accomplish? He didn't evne release his own anger, because now he lives in fear of his own life.
So I ask what good did he accomplish by burning the Muslims Quran? I f his act was good and right then what did he accomplish if innocent lives were lost. I'm speaking about behaviing according to what God teaches of Christian values and principles God etches, and how we are not to respond to those who hates us, Not based on your personal opinions and thouht of your own anger or hate for the Muslim.
2sparrow, I've read what I need to know about the Quran, I think you should re-read what God says in the New Testamen and then speak back with me, becasue you sure are not spekaing Christian values or principles God teaches us.
I would have no need to read the entire Quran, as a Christian my focus is on what God hs to say in His Holy Book, and this is where all Christians should have their focus.
We are taught that perecutions will come, and we are taught how to accept such when it does come, but I sure can't find where God says to burn other religions books, and think we have done something great and grand.
Our job is to win souls, and jones/ acts sure does not prove that he sought to win souls for the kingdom, no matter what you and Tony or anyone else has to say.
Again, what was the accomplisment? But ist did reveal Jones evil behavior and his hate for the Muslims, and that he did not have God woking in Him.
I can't believe how you guys can call evil good, and wrong right... oooops, second thought yes I can...
I think you guys have need to spend more time not only reading God's word, but in serious study of God's word of you think what Jones did was pleasing to God. Spend time reading Matthew chapter 5; and Romans chapters 12- 15, which in part says: Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of ALL men. If it is possible, as much as it depends on you live peacefully with ALL men... DO Not be obercome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
BTW, jones' church is up for sale, maybe you guys should help him out to save it, since you support what he did, he's seeking donations. He can't pay the church bills because he has had to hire extra security, and some of his memebrs left. So if what he did was good and supported by God, why is this happening? Y'all make sure you send in your money to help ya' boy out since you think so highly of his actions a being right and good... what craziness. LOL:toomuch::purpleangel:
