Church to Burn Copies of Koran to Mark
9/11
By staff writers
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26080.htm
August 04, 2010 "News.com.au"
-- A FLORIDA church was yesterday promoting an event where it will burn copies
of the Koran to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the
U.S.
In the announcement on its Facebook page, The Dove World Outreach Center of
Gainesville, Florida, asked other religious groups to join in standing "against
the evil of Islam. Islam is of the devil!"
The Facebook event has received more than 1,500 "Like" recommendations by users,
but had also been attacked with a number of threatening messages posted on the
page and corresponding anti-Islam rants.
The church's pastor, Terry Jones - who has written a book
titled "Islam is of The Devil" and sells T-shirts bearing the same message -
defended the controversial event.
"Islam and Sharia law was responsible for 9/11," Jones told Agence France-Presse.
"We will burn Korans because we think it's time for Christians, for churches,
for politicians to stand up and say no; Islam and Sharia law is not welcome in
the U.S.
"We've got many death threats from jihad groups, but we cannot react by fear and
we cannot compromise our beliefs. Somebody must stand up."
The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) called for the church to cancel
the event, The Christian Post reported.
"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.'"
Mainstream Muslim groups also denounced the move and lamented the sentiments
promoted by the Gainesville church.
"Unfortunately in [Florida] and nationwide, Islamophobia are actually on the
rise," Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) spokesman Ramsey Kilic told
AFP.
"I'm more afraid of those who have anti-Muslim sentiments and may think this is
a legitimate action and may want to attack a mosque or attack a Muslim on the
street," he added.
However, Kilic said, "we are not taking any action to avoid this... we don't
want to give attention to this, because that's what they want."
Besides the Koran burning ceremony, the Dove World Outreach Center also plans an
anti-homosexual event August 2 outside Gainesville's City Hall. The "No Homo
Mayor Protest" targets the city's first openly gay mayor, Craig Lowe.
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On Sept. 11, 2010, members of the Dove World Outreach Center -- a non-denominational Christian church of dubious credibility in Gainesville, Florida -- plan to burn copies of the Koran in a public ceremony billed as a memorial for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
"Uh, what?" you may be asking. How about we let Dove World pastor Wayne Sapp explain it:
"Why would we burn the Koran?" he says in a video the church posted to YouTube last week. "The Koran, the holy book of Islam? Because we're Christian."
Prior to the whole book burning scheme, Dove World Outreach Center was best known for using the slogan "Islam Is Of The Devil," which it has plastered across its website and in large signs outside the church's headquarters. Sapp says in the video that Islam's devilishness is why the Koran must burn.
"Being Christian does not mean you go to church. Being Christian does not mean you believe in God. Being Christian means you are Christ-like, or at least attempting to go in that direction," he says. "And Jesus, the Christ, he was sent -- he appeared -- to destroy the works of the Devil. So that's what we're gonna do."
Sapp then proceeds to put his money where his mouth is and sparks up a copy of the Koran, spraying lighter fluid on it as it catches fire.
Point proven, or something.
Dove World Outreach Center, Florida, Religion, Wayne Sapp
Watch the videos and those of Zakariyya Boutros (Egyptian Coptic) on the same link
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