[A-List] Fwd: Church plans Quran-burning event

[Suzanne de Kuyper]

No wonder gay marriages are being supported, the new gay female U.S. Supreme
Court Judge.   Islam as demon is now policy, might as well balance things
out and appear a liberal country as we destroy our Islamists' safety.   Will
lynchings begin again?  A fully armed country has shooting assasinations of
known Muslims in it's future, physical violence against veiled
women?   Forced return of U.S. citizen immigrants to their countries of
origin?  Harassment so businesses are forced to close, people are forced to
leave good jobs too?   These all happened after the wild terrorist
government propaganda after 9/11.  It was criminal propaganda then, it is
criminal propaganda now...but after nine years of it, believed.  Elmer
Gantryism by Government.          Suzanne

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From: Suzanne de Kuyper <suzannedk at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:28 PM
Subject: Fwd: Church plans Quran-burning event
To: "kcourtenay at aol.com" <KCourtenay at aol.com>




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From: Sid Shniad <shniad at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:50 PM
Subject: Church plans Quran-burning event
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/29/florida.burn.quran.day/index.html


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CNN
July 31, 2010
Church plans Quran-burning event
By *Lauren Russell

*

*(CNN)* -- In protest of what it calls a religion "of the devil," a
nondenominational church in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an
"International Burn a Quran Day" on the ninth anniversary of the September
11, 2001, attacks.

The Dove World Outreach Center says it is hosting the event to remember 9/11
victims and take a stand against Islam. With promotions on its website and
Facebook page, it invites Christians to burn the Muslim holy book at the
church from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

"We believe that Islam is of the devil, that it's causing billions of people
to go to hell, it is a deceptive religion, it is a violent religion and that
is proven many, many times," Pastor Terry Jones told CNN's Rick Sanchez
earlier this week.

Jones wrote a book titled "Islam is of the Devil," and the church sells
coffee mugs and shirts featuring the phrase.

Muslims and many other Christians -- including some evangelicals -- are
fighting the initiative.

The church launched a YouTube channel to disseminate its messages.

"I mean ask yourself, have you ever really seen a really happy Muslim? As
they're on the way to Mecca? As they gather together in the mosque on the
floor? Does it look like a real religion of joy?" Jones asks in one of his
YouTube posts.

"No, to me it looks like a religion of the devil."

The Islamic advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations called on
Muslims and others to host "Share the Quran" dinners to educate the public
during the monthlong fast of Ramadan beginning in August. In a news release,
the group announced a campaign to give out 100,000 copies of the Quran to
local, state and national leaders.

"American Muslims and other people of conscience should support positive
educational efforts to prevent the spread of Islamophobia," said CAIR
spokesman Ibrahim Hooper in the release.

The National Association of Evangelicals, the nation's largest umbrella
evangelical group, issued a statement urging the church to cancel the event,
warning it could cause worldwide tension between the two religions.

"The NAE calls on its members to cultivate relationships of trust and
respect with our neighbors of other faiths. God created human beings in his
image, and therefore all should be treated with dignity and respect," it
said in the statement.

Dove's Facebook page, set up for the September event, has more than 1,600
fans.

"Eternal fire is the only destination the Quran can lead people to, so we
want to put the Quran in it's [sic] place -- the fire!" the page says.

But another Facebook group with more than 3,100 fans says it stands "against
the disrespect and intolerance that these people have for the Muslim people"
and encourages people to report Dove's page to Facebook.

Targeting another group it calls "godless," the Dove center is also hosting
a protest against Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe, who is openly gay, on Monday
at Gainesville's City Hall. The group previously fought -- unsuccessfully --
to derail Lowe's election campaign.

"We protest sexual perversion because the Bible protests it. ... What is
acceptable to today's leadership becomes acceptable to tomorrow's society,"
the church says in its blog entry about the event.

Lowe and other government figures and media outlets received e-mails from
the church about the event, The Gainesville Sun reported. Lowe isn't
concerned with Monday's event.

"I've got other things to do," he said, The Sun reports.

On the outreach center's front lawn, alongside a sign reading "Aug. 2
Protest, No Homo Mayor, City Hall," stands not just one, but three signs
bearing the slogan "Islam is of the Devil."

One of the signs -- one reading "Islam" on one side, "Devil" on the other --
was vandalized. On its blog last week, the church said the sign will be
replaced.

"This is private property and vandalism is a crime here in America," the
blog says. "In Islam, many actions that we consider to be crimes are
encouraged, condoned or sheltered under Islamic teaching and practice,
though. Another reason to burn a Quran."
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