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Title: Florida church’s ‘Burn a Koran Day’ brings Islamist threats
Source: Raw Story
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0731/ch ... ondemn-churchs-burn-koran-day/
Published: Aug 1, 2010
Author: Daniel Tencer
Post Date: 2010-08-01 20:14:37 by abraxas
Keywords: None
Views: 10458
Comments: 72

Florida church’s ‘Burn a Koran Day’ brings Islamist threats

By Daniel Tencer Saturday, July 31st, 2010 -- 8:04 pm The controversy over the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan has sparked a wave of anti-Muslim activism among some conservative and religious groups, and nowhere is that more in evidence than in a non-denominational church's plan to hold a "Burn a Koran Day" on the next anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Muslim advocacy groups and evangelical Christian organizations alike have condemned the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, for its plans to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a day for burning Islam's holy book. And at least one jihadist organization has promised revenge if the event goes ahead as planned.

"On September 11th, 2010, from 6pm - 9pm, we will burn the Koran on the property of Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, FL in remembrance of the fallen victims of 9/11 and to stand against the evil of Islam," says the church's Facebook page. "Islam is of the devil!"

The church has drawn condemnation from the National Association of Evangelicals, which said in a statement that "Burn a Koran Day" shows "disrespect for our Muslim neighbors and would exacerbate tensions between Christians and Muslims throughout the world."

“It sounds like the proposed Koran burning is rooted in revenge," NAE President Leith Anderson said. "Yet the Bible says that Christians should ‘make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else’ The church's plans have grabbed the attention of the Islamist movement. Members of the al-Falluja online forum have reportedly promised to "spill rivers of your (American) blood" if the event goes forward.

But the church is holding steadfast in its position.

"We believe that Islam is ... 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.

The church has also stirred controversy with its plans to protest Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe, who is openly gay. And some former church members have accused the leadership of using the church's tax-exempt status for profit.

The Gainesville Sun reported earlier this month:

Former church members who have worshiped under senior pastors Terry and Sylvia Jones are speaking out about what they describe as financial abuses at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville and its sister church in Cologne, Germany, founded by Terry Jones in 1981 and closed in 2008.

By all accounts - the church's Web site, interviews with current and former members and Terry Jones' own description - the church in Gainesville, as was the one in Germany, is structured with a for-profit business operating out of tax-exempt church property, using the unpaid labor of church members to maintain a steady stream of merchandise for sale online.

That structure has raised questions with the Alachua County Property Appraiser's Office, which has said it will investigate the church's tax-exempt status.

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#4. To: abraxas (#0)

"We believe that Islam is ... 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.

If that's true, then their christian "god" is a terrorist more evil than anything Cheney could think of in his wildest torture filled wet dreams. Cheney just killed them. He didn't torture them for all eternity.

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PSUSA  posted on  2010-08-01   20:31:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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He (the Christian God) didn't torture them for all eternity

Do you believe this or do you just want to believe it?

Bill Crowe  posted on  2010-08-02   3:21:14 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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He (the Christian God) didn't torture them for all eternity

Do you believe this or do you just want to believe it?

That's not what I wrote.

This is what I said, referring to cheney:

Cheney just killed them. He didn't torture them for all eternity.

If you're asking me if I believe in "eternal hell", it's not that I don't believe in it. It's that it just isn't in scripture. Where does that word "hell" even come from?

But to each his own. If people want to believe that their god tortures people endlessly, but still loves everyone, that's their business. It's a very popular belief.

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If you're asking me if I believe in "eternal hell", it's not that I don't believe in it. It's that it just isn't in scripture.

But to each his own. If people want to believe that their god tortures people endlessly, but still loves everyone, that's their business. It's a very popular belief.

I don't believe it because it isn't in Scripture. And to me God is love is totally incongruent with the concept of eternal torture. And I know it is widely believed and that's fine with me but I do have real problems of how it is used to try to control people or wish something so severe on someone because they don't believe what the "Christian" said. If any thought is widely believed I question it. I'm cynical of human nature.

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