Spreading Terrorism One Burnt Quran at a Time: How American Christian Fanatics Fan

Spreading Terrorism One Burnt Quran at a Time: How American Christian Fanatics Fan

By mikelong


Beware...the "Doctor" is in......

Which is about as good as going to see Doctor Strangelove...
His prescription: in injection of bigotry and hate

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Before I read the news article (cited at bottom) concerning "Dr." Terry Jones, I decided to go to the source. The Dove World Outreach Center has an official website at doveworld.org.

After reaching this destination I clicked on the prompt link to another doveworld.org page entitled "Ten Reasons to Burn a Koran".

I was intrigued.

On this page the author goes on to justify, at least in his or her own mind, how a book sacred to over a billion people worldwide, and many, many Americans, should be burned..

Reason number 2 states that "The Koran does not have an eternal origin. It is not recorded in heaven...."

I rolled my eyes....

"It's writings are human in origin..."

Now the inevitable face-palm....

Somewhere, I suppose, this Doctor was able to look into "heaven" and read documents of some type. Perhaps he has an extra special search engine via the web.

So this is one reason that the Quran needs to be burned?

Reason number 3 states that "The Koran's teachings includes Arabian idolatry, paganism, rites and rituals. These are demonic, an ongoing satanic stronghold under which Moslems and the world suffer."

I will leave the other 8 reasons that a huge disrespect should be paid towards over a billion people to you the reader, for my purpose is not to discuss the ridiculous, biased, and intolerant expressions of this "church".

Yet, I wish to show how this "p.h.d." mind, or those Mr. Jones sponsors, work to erase the political, social, and economic development/evolution of the Near East, Europe, and Asia, and instead install the standard "false prophet" imagery read in the Book of Revelations.

"By faith and not by sight" comes to an all new meaning here....by faith one must follow the misguided Jones...which means that one has to ignore all the evidence to the contrary....

Now, for the main point at hand...

The article that attracted my original interest was related to a statement released by General Patreus, wherein he specifically identifies Mr. Jones and his "Outreach" center as a threat to the safety of Americans.

People like Mr. Jones (for he is no Doctor in my book) and organizations like Dove World Outreach demonstrate how people around the world can look upon Americans as ignorant, radical, racist, bigoted, and hypocritical.

It is this type of behavior practiced blatantly that makes people around the world, as well as Americans wary of what type of attitudes are brewing under the social crust of tolerance and "political correctness."

While many Christians, including those at the Dove Outreach Center, cry out against the Muslim Community Center expansion project in Manhattan, the story of Mr. Jones' organization and what kind of "outreach" this place does remains seemingly unimportant.... What kinds of ideas are concocted and indoctrinated into young minds through this "outreach" center?

With "outreach" centers like this, it doesn't surprise me that there is so much rumor milling and suspicion concerning the Manhattan center project. Projection of self onto the "other" is a very useful tactic of manipulation.

As Osama bin Laden is used in the U.S. and other majority "Christian" states to stir up anti-Muslim flames that fuel illegal wars and the wholesale death of innocent civillians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. Jones becomes the poster boy for American-Christian imperialism abroad, and makes the seemingly peaceful "Outreach Center" a training ground for Christian radicals bent on destroying Muslims.

Is all this too complex for the "Doctor" or his "outreach" group? Or is he and his group being the "change they want to see?"

This is an ongoing issue that I have with Christian imperialists, meaning those who choose to push their religion on others as opposed to exercising mutual respect. They read the Bible, particularly Revelations, and they brood for religious conflict and war. Instead of getting a real education, and a p.h.d. in a substantial topic people like Jones look to raise their names and financial status in the same way that radical imams in Iran do....through the peddling of fear, false stereotypes, and peer pressure.

While I am a firm advocate of the freedom of speech, I cannot stand for the freedom to blind and handicap people. While they may believe that they are "educating" people, this "ministry" is crippling the ability of people to think with independent and open minds about others they don't understand. This organization makes people not want to understand....

"By faith and not by sight" as the old gospel song goes....

This is an easy mantra to believe and follow when it is the blind leading the blinded....

I look forward, as sadistic as that is, to how this new wrinkle to the "rehonoring of America" plays out.

Will Americans speak out against this obvious symbol of ignorance, intolerance, bigotry, and hatred?

Can we call terrorism where we see it? I can, and I see it being spread at a training camp in Florida.

Can we realize that body counts, in terms of physically killed and wounded, do not define or confine terrorist acts? For, the wounding or death of the "self" and cognitive ability are equal contributors to personal and social hardship and destruction.