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Pastor Terry– I almost burned a Koran – Jones banned from UK

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From here:

Mr Jones had been originally invited by the English Defence League to attend a Feb 5 rally in Luton, Bedfordshire against the presence of Islam in Britain, but that invitation was withdraw.

Another group, England Is Ours, said on its website that it had invited the pastor to speak at a “series of demonstrations against the expansion of Islam and the construction of Mosques here in the UK” in the second week of February.

A Home Office spokesman said: “The Government opposes extremism in all its forms which is why we have excluded Pastor Terry Jones from the UK.”

In a statement, Mr Jones said: “This ban exemplifies the sabotage of the basic human rights of freedom of speech and freedom of expression. The ban also proves the effectiveness of the threat of militant Islam in the UK as one is not free to travel to the UK due to the speculation of violence.”

A member of his staff at the Dove World Outreach Centre in Gainesville, Florida, US, said a letter from the Home Office had been received by courier on Wednesday informing Mr Jones of the ban. She said the letter mentioned the risk of “disruption”.

Why was Jones actually banned from entering the UK? Because the UK – home of rabid Islamist Anjem Choudary – “opposes extremism in all its forms”? Hardly.

The answer in in the last sentence: craven poltroonery.

Here are some charming examples of how effective the government is in opposing extremism in all its forms when it happens to be Islamic extremism:

So what was burned on September 11th?

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Anjem Choudary, UK Muslim, professional dole recipient and demented Islamist mouthpiece of Islam4UK, burnt a US flag in London to cries of “Burn, burn democracy”, “democracy, go to hell”, “democracy, you will pay”:

Just before September 11th, In Pakistan a Christian man, woman and their four children were burned to death by Islamists.

Various police checkpoints were set on fire by Muslims in Afghanistan.

In Indonesia, a Christian was stabbed in the stomach and a pastor battered with a plank.

On September 11th, 115,000 babies were aborted, many burned alive with salt solution.

Anglican and other Christian leaders – not to mention Obama, less anointed politicians, Vatican officials, UN officials and uncle Tom Cobley and all – wrung their hands and pleaded with would-be Koran burners not to do it, while studiously ignoring all of the above.

Terry Jones did not burn any Korans.

Which just goes to show that it’s easier and more personally satisfying to concentrate on the inconsequential than what really matters and that grovelling to bullies in an attempt to appease them is a complete waste of time.

My CBC tax dollars at work

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In an idle moment this afternoon, I decided to listen to CBC Radio. Since I listened to a live stream on my iPod, the title of the music that was playing was blazoned across the screen: Fuck You by Cee-Lo Green. I have no idea who or what, Cee-Lo Green is, but I can only assume that this was his/her/its way of saying thanks for the tax dollars.

Still, my afternoon radio experience wasn’t a total loss: the news informed me that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has agreed to move his mosque in exchange for a promise from Rev. Terry Jones not to burn 200 Korans. Perhaps Rev. Jones isn’t such a loon after all.

The Koran burning ruse

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Worked.

Rev. Terry Jones has more publicity for his church than he could have imagined in his wildest dreams. Liberals – closet, idiot or otherwise – are exposing themselves by endlessly mouthing deeply embedded clichés. Here are a few samples:

Petraeus – if we upset our enemies they might want to kills us! Remedy here (thanks sda).

Clinton: “regrettable”, “distrustful”, “disgraceful”, “outrageous”, “aberrational” – a red flag to a bull; now I want to burn one.

Peter MacKay: ““This initiative is insulting to Muslims and Canadians of all faiths who understand that freedom of thought and freedom of religion are fundamental to our way of living,” – well, Pete, that remark is insulting to anyone whose brain still functions. Rev. Jones is making a symbolic gesture: he’s not stopping Muslims worshipping whatever they want, nor is he burning every extant Koran. If we really agree with freedom of thought and religion, we should let Rev. Jones burn away shouldn’t we?

On the other side of the spectrum is a more entertaining bon mot from Ann Coulter: “It turns out I’m for it, but mostly because burning Qurans will contribute to global warming”.

Leaving aside the inefficacy of Rev. Jones’ novel outreach technique, if the concern for Koran burning were rooted in anything other than pusillanimity we would have heard a similar outcry against the piss Christ, the dung Madonna and the defacing Bible as Art wouldn’t we? But we didn’t.

Congratulations, Terry, you’ve hit the motherload.

Pastor promotes “Burn the Koran Day”

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Rev. Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Centre, Gainsville, Florida, is celebrating the ninth anniversary of 9/11 by having a “burn the Koran day”:

An American church has been urged to call off a plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks.

Muslim and Christian groups have condemned the protest saying it will only escalate tensions between the two faiths.

But despite death threats to its members, the Florida-based Dove World Outreach Centre has refused to back down.

The controversial church even claims they have received thousands of messages  of support for their stand against what they call an ‘evil religion’.

The church’s pastor Terry Jones has called on other religious groups to join in his ‘International Burn a Koran Day’ on the ninth anniversary of the terror attack on New York city and Washington DC.

‘Islam and Sharia law was responsible for 9/11,’ said Jones.

Unfortunately, even if Rev Jones is correct and Islam is an “evil religion”, his burning of a Koran is more of a political statement – one he has every right to make – than a Christian one: there are no accounts of St. Paul running around burning idols are there? Rev. Jones seems to be at the opposite end of the spectrum to social gospel liberals who concentrate their energy on leftist social programs instead of the Gospel; both have made the Gospel subservient to politics.

Meanwhile, General Petraeus is bleating that Rev. Jones is ruining the war effort – although, since war is usually about killing one’s enemies, I can’t quite see how; perhaps he means the appeasement effort:

KABUL—The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the planned burning of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a small Florida church could put the lives of American troops in danger and damage the war effort.

Gen. David Petraeus said the Taliban would exploit the demonstration for propaganda purposes, drumming up anger toward the U.S. and making it harder for allied troops to carry out their mission of protecting Afghan civilians.

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Afghans are responding by burning effigies of Rev. Jones. So far, General Petraeus has not warned the Afghans that any more effigy burning and Rev. Jones will be driven to burning more Korans – my guess is he won’t.

After reading something like this, I am left with the conclusion that Rev. Jones, while his methods may be counter-productive, has his fundamental premise correct:

Afghanistan’s dirty little secret

Western forces fighting in southern Afghanistan had a problem. Too often, soldiers on patrol passed an older man walking hand-in-hand with a pretty young boy. Their behavior suggested he was not the boy’s father. Then, British soldiers found that young Afghan men were actually trying to “touch and fondle them,” military investigator AnnaMaria Cardinalli told me. “The soldiers didn’t understand.”

All of this was so disconcerting that the Defense Department hired Cardinalli, a social scientist, to examine this mystery. Her report, “Pashtun Sexuality,” startled not even one Afghan. But Western forces were shocked – and repulsed.

For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. Some research suggests that half the Pashtun tribal members in Kandahar and other southern towns are bacha baz, the term for an older man with a boy lover. Literally it means “boy player.” The men like to boast about it.

So, why are American and NATO forces fighting and dying to defend tens of thousands of proud pedophiles, certainly more per capita than any other place on Earth? And how did Afghanistan become the pedophilia capital of Asia?

Sociologists and anthropologists say the problem results from perverse interpretation of Islamic law. Women are simply unapproachable. Afghan men cannot talk to an unrelated woman until after proposing marriage. Before then, they can’t even look at a woman, except perhaps her feet. Otherwise she is covered, head to ankle.

“How can you fall in love if you can’t see her face,” 29-year-old Mohammed Daud told reporters. “We can see the boys, so we can tell which are beautiful.”