Today, I bought another Quran.
I already have two of them. Translated by different people. They’re heavily underlined, highlighted, annotated (defaced some may say) just like my copies of the Jewish and Christian scriptures.
I’ve studied them all in quests for understanding that have serves as the backbones of three novels — Daughter of God, Perfect Killer and an almost-completed (and so-far-untitled) work. That study has also helped me — a fairly heretical Protestant — to understand my own faith.
But why yet another Quran?
Because the same evil irrationality that has hijacked most of Islam outside of the United States has possessed Terry Jones — a Florida religious cleric — who says he wants to burn copies of the Quran.
I bought another Quran today as a preemptive strike against Jones’s sectarian bigotry. For, regardless of whether he ever sets match to a Quran, he has burned goodwill and torched the efforts of rational, earnest people who have made an effort to bridge the religious divide.
When the Quran I bought today arrives, I’ll donate it to a friend or a local church or synagogue and urge its careful reading. I will do this because a thoughtful reading of the Quran and the Jewish and Christian scriptures will reveal frighteningly similar tales of death, destruction, murder, mayhem and mutilation committed in the name of Allah, God, or Yahweh.
While today we hear most about the Quran’s admonitions to “slay the infidels wherever you will find them,” Islam has nothing close to a monopoly on scripturally sanctioned violence against people of differing faiths: The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition and Israelite extermination of Canaanites and others come to mind.
I’m not going to buy a Kuran or any other religious text. I believe I’m tiring of all things religious. I do believe this pastor in Florida has balls bigger than most I know.
#97 You retract the universality of your statement, good. Lets talk about nuts, progressives like the Unibomber, inspired by al gore, who also inspired the Discovery Channel murderer..
Or what all the other progressive nuts who believe infants are a plague on the planet, and are trying to poison our environment to kill us all off.
Why is it these are never discussed by you?
Hitler, Stalin, Mao, were progressives…they killed millions…what voices were they following…
Do we hear you discuss these left loons, no…
You generalize one nut case, whom now you admit Christians reject as one of the own, and label everyone who believes in God a nut case.
Its you progressives who endanger our freedoms, who believe us too stupid to realize how good your lunatic entitlement programs are, and will, like Mao, blame us for their failure…and like Mao, begin killing us to excuse the failure of your nutty programs.
That’s why the first thing you progressives seek to do, is destroy freedom of speech…
http://infowars.com/obama-information-czar-calls-for-banning-free-speech/
I can only hope this November we clean enough of you statists out of government so we begin diminishing your numbers in public education, and stop the propaganda destroying us from within.
One nutty pastor doesn’t destroy this country, the nut cases running it do.
That guy’s a hero. Ever hear of smoking out the enemy? The very first post here nailed it. Is America to not defend HIM? People can burn anything they want in protest as long as they have purchased the copy. It’s the most brilliant piece of work what he’s done. He may be THE person who actually brings peace to this situation. Thank God for the his courage to go beyond most of America’s fear and taking on the bullies. No one else has so brilliantly. Oh they go in their with their bombs and artillary but this, this is brilliant..
Islamist terrorists and right-wing, fundamentalist religious nuts (same difference)
LOL. Really. lperdue you are such a loser.
Alfred, you just took Awake to task for (allegedly) making sweeping and unfair generalizations. Here you go doing the same thing.
Mao’s Cultural Revolution was about purging Liberal elements from the government that he feared would try to introduce Capitalism. Mao was for returning to the ideals of the Communist Chinese revoulution.
Hitler condemned Liberalism just as he condemned Communism.
You cant just slap a liberal label on anything you don’t like. The world is rarely so easily categorized.
You know, I heard of a famous Liberal once. He had some new and unconventional ideas, said some of the old traditions were out of date and unnecessary. Even though they crucified him for his radical beliefs, he changed the world with his ideas of brotherhood and compassion. Perhaps you’ve heard of him?
‘Hitler condemned Liberalism’
At that time, liberalism was still associated with less government.
Let’s do some holy math.
The Pope thinks you’re nuts.
The President thinks you’re nuts.
The Rabbis think you’re nuts.
The Imams think you’re nuts.
The parents of troops think you’re nuts.
98% of the world thinks you’re nuts…
But that neuron in your brain keeps pinging “I’m a sign from God?”
Did it ever occur to you that you might be just nuts?
Well the imam building the Ground Zero mosque says blocking it will hurt national security. Burning the Korans will hurt national security.
How about the pastor say he will burn them outside the mosque?
107 No, it just means the others are nuts. $10.00 for whoever burns off that damn mustache.
#102 Alfred-
Please give us an unbiased secondary source for the information that you provide in your link, since the last thing that you can call “Infowars” is unbiased.
My guess ids that you can’t because the quotes presented are completely out of context, by an individual that self-describes himself as a “paleoconservative’, and whose main gig is as a radio commentator specializing in promoting conspiracy theories.
In other words, as reliable as and believable as a Fox News commentary (basically worthless drivel).
So the FBI visited him before he cancelled his plans. Is everyone here OK with this?