Florida church may not burn Qurans, but Kansas church says it will - guess which one?

[catlover79]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/325068

By Brad Knickerbocker – Fri Sep 10, 4:50 pm ET

Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., may have “suspended” plans to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of 9/11. But the controversial Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., says it will burn the Quran. In fact, it already has.

The Westboro Baptist Church (which has been disavowed by all Baptist conventions and associations) is led by the Rev. Fred Phelps, and most followers are members of his extended family.

The church is best known for its controversial protests at the funerals of US soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan as well as at the funerals of those who have died from conditions medically attributed to AIDS. A central point in the church’s protests is that Americans are being punished because the US tolerates homosexuality.

State and federal laws have been passed keeping such church picketers several hundred feet away from funerals. Motorcycle clubs and others have protested the Westboro protesters by gathering around military funeral sites with American flags. Military families have tried to sue Westboro on the grounds that protests featuring highly offensive signs (“Thank God for dead soldiers”) are not constitutionally-protected speech. In March, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal from the father of a Marine killed in Iraq.

Westboro’s attitude toward Islam (as well as toward Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants, Mormons, and other religions) is similarly harsh. Phelps has described the Quran as a “300-page work of Satanic fiction.”

Although the church burned a Quran in Washington in 2008, it did not get much media attention. On its web site Friday, the church called Pastor Jones in Gainesville a “false prophet … bullied by sissy, intolerant rebels worldwide into cancelling plans to burn that blasphemous idol called the Koran.”

Westboro also declared that it “will burn the Koran and the doomed American flag at 12:00 p.m. on September 11, 2010 at Westboro Baptist Church.”

Meanwhile, in the latest development in Jones’s off-again-on-again pledge to burn copies of the Islamic holy book at his small central Florida church, he says he’s going to New York Saturday to meet with Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Sufi Muslim imam leading the effort to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque near the World Trade Center site known as “ground zero” for the terrorist attack nine years ago.

But Mr. Rauf says there’s no such scheduled meeting with Jones.

"I am prepared to consider meeting with anyone who is seriously committed to pursuing peace,” he said in a statement Friday. But, he added, “We have no such meeting planned at this time.”

And just to make it clear about the proposed Islamic center near ground zero, he said, “Our plans for the community center have not changed.”

Earlier, Rauf had suggested that he might not have chosen that location if he'd known what trouble it would cause but that to change now would play into the hands of Islamic radicals. But he’s also made it clear that he would not be pressured by threats.

[ABlairican Pie]

No surprise there.

I'm still wondering why the Obama administration and the lamestream media have seen fit to focus so much attention on this lunatic pastor Terry Jones and his crackpot plans (currently on hold, allegedly) to burn the Quran when his classroom-sized church is merely a blip on the radar of churches in this country. If he didn't get so much attention, would they still do it?

Even his own daughter has come out and called him psychotic.

[OH Nuts!]

Both that FLA and Phelps are hatemongers...and cowards. If they're so hot sh*t intent on buring a Quran let them go to Iran and do it. Interesting how the FLA pastor backed down when he found out about all the death threats against him.

And besides being outright incendiary, such book burnings are irresponsible and DANGEROUS to our fighting (young) men and woman oveseas. These two pastors are a disgrace to our country.

[catlover79]

^ Rich, I couldn't have said it any better myself. They give TRUE Christians a bad name!!!

[MrCleveland]

I also won't be surprised that Westboro Baptist has slandered Catholics!

[PlayOn]

Does anybody know if they did it? I haven;t heard anything, so I'm guessing not.
I love my pastor. He spoke a little about this on Sunday and was against it, as was the whole congregation. You don't see those Christians on CNN. Only the ones with a few screws lose.

[ABlairican Pie]

Originally Posted by PlayOn

Does anybody know if they did it? I haven;t heard anything, so I'm guessing not.
I love my pastor. He spoke a little about this on Sunday and was against it, as was the whole congregation. You don't see those Christians on CNN. Only the ones with a few screws lose.

I remember in 1984, Christian new wave artist Steve Taylor wrote a song called "Meat the Press" where he said, A Christian can't get equal time/unless he's a loony committing a crime!

[catlover79]

Originally Posted by ABlairican Pie

I remember in 1984, Christian new wave artist Steve Taylor wrote a song called "Meat the Press" where he said, A Christian can't get equal time/unless he's a loony committing a crime!

Sad but true!!!

[ABlairican Pie]

The title "Meat the Press" was spelled that way intentionally, btw.


I bet Michael Moore dreams about meat. Acres and acres of yummy, red meat. His arteries are crying out for it. MMMMMMmmmmmm, meat.


Broccoli and oatmeal would be to him what a crucifix and holy water would be to a vampire.

[catlover79]

^ Not to mention garlic.

[spunkygirl]

What the heck does burning that solve? NOTHING. It just creates more problems.

[catlover79]

Originally Posted by Dragonflies

What the heck does burning that solve? NOTHING. It just creates more problems.

I think you just said it all!!

[ABlairican Pie]

I don't believe in burning the Quran. I don't believe in censorship, it doesn't solve anything. I understand people's frustrations about this, but being destructive toward a text other people find sacred to them doesn't help.
I think we should read it and try to understand it--in order to answer them with the truth about Christ and God's forgiveness.


Oh wait--Christ--woops, that's politically incorrect.

[catlover79]

^ I agree!!!!

[PlayOn]

thanks for the heads up about the song, Captain ABlairican. I'll have to listen to it. Maybe even use it in my siggy. So true.