What Kind of Idiot Would Publicly Burn a Koran on 9/11?
Stupid idea of the Week award to (drumroll, please)…Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center, an evangelical church in Gainesville, Florida. Jones and his 50 members want to commemorate 9/11 by burning a Koran.
Here’s what General David Petraeus had to say about this idiotic idea:
It is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems, not just here, but everywhere in the world we are engaged with the Islamic community…Images of the burning of a Koran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan – and around the world – to inflame public opinion and incite violence. Such images could, in fact, be used as were the photos from [Abu Ghraib]. And this would, again, put our troopers and civilians in jeopardy and undermine our efforts to accomplish the critical mission here in Afghanistan.
The same Washington Post article quotes a statement from the U.S. Embassy:
Americans from all religious and ethnic backgrounds reject the offensive initiative by this small group in Florida. A great number of American voices are protesting the hurtful statements made by this organization. Numerous interfaith and religious groups in America are actively working to counter this kind of ignorance and misinformation that is offensive to so many people in the U.S. and around the world.
To these 50 extremists who falsely call themselves Christian, I’ve got a few other things to say:
Advice to the better selves hiding behind that racist front: don’t do it. You want to do something constructive to commemorate 9/11? How about an interfaith Christian/Muslim/Jewish dialog group?
Reading: What Kind of Idiot Would Publicly Burn a Koran on 9/11? – https://tinyurl.com/2cetmzd
Reading: What Kind of Idiot Would Publicly Burn a Koran on 9/11? – https://tinyurl.com/2cetmzd