Pastor Jones’ planned torching of Qurans is Asking For Trouble!

I think this is a pretty ridiculous plan. What cause will be served by aggravating an already touchy situation? Some Muslims will probably take Pastor Jones’ planned torching of Qurans on Sept. 11 as a reason to retaliate. I think most right-thinking Americans agree that he should be stopped from doing such a thing
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Let's hope the world sees the fool in Pastor Terry Jones
SentinelSource.com |SENTINEL EDITORIAL

"From a certain angle, Terry Jones, the fundamentalist Christian preacher with the handlebar mustache, bears an uncanny resemblance to a man of the same name whose job was to behave like an idiot on TV. The comedian Terry Jones was a fixture on the Monty Python show whose humor would likely fly over the head of Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., who’s intent on burning a pile of Muslim holy books.

The problem, as noted in this space about a month ago, is that some Muslims may take Pastor Jones’ planned torching of Qurans on Sept. 11 as a useful tool in stirring up the same radical behavior that he decries; they present the 58-year-old prelate as a spokesman for American values — an ambition that’s being helped along by a few unbalanced Americans who are actually praising the pastor’s cause.

Which is? Pastor Jones says he wants to “send a message to radical Islam.” When pressed to explain just what that message might be, he’s said that Americans don’t want sharia law and sharia courts in their country. Most Americans, and probably most Muslims, would be surprised to hear that junking the current U.S. judicial system for traditional Islamic law was even being considered.

Read on . . .