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This is NOT freedom of religion. It is oppression. To begin Jones is not a recognized pastor of any major faith. His designation as pastor is legal, not ordained. So, in fact, his ? church ? is actually a protest movement. He hides behind the 'church' designation to allow himself and his parishioners escapes from the law and litigation. That is not a church, it is abuse of the rights afforded Americans in the USA Constitution.
Jones is yelling fire where there is no fire. He is creating hate. Hate speech is not free either. If someone states, "I will kill (a person's name)," as in a fit of passion, that is considered serious enough to find itself into a court of law in many states. If a person forces another into suicide that will be prosecuted. So, this disaster of the abuse of American law called Terry Jones should be in prison.
Friday 1 April 2011 11:54 EDT
....Provincial police (click title to entry - thank you) spokesman Sherjan Durrani said the demonstrators poured out of mosques in the city in the early afternoon, shortly after Friday prayers where worshippers had been angered by reports that a Florida pastor had burned a copy of the Qur'an.
Last year Terry Jones, a US fundamentalist Christian leader, did threaten to burn copies of the Muslim holy book. He backed down after warnings that Islamic opinion around the world could be inflamed and the lives of US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq endangered.
But on 21 March Wayne Sapp set light to a Qur'an with Jones standing by.
Durrani said that while most protesters were peaceful, others were seeking targets to attack, including shops and the UN compound.
Whatever the final death toll, the incident is seen as a disaster for the UN, coming just over a week after the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, announced that Mazar-e-Sharif would be one of the first areas of the wartorn country to be transferred from Nato to Afghan government security control....
Today Jones racked up another one; this time it is the USA and the United Nations that is the subject of rage due to an irreverent American.
J. Christopher Stevens, U.S. Ambassador to Libya, who was killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, eastern Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012. (State Department)
Today Jones racked up another one; this time it is the USA and the United Nations that is the subject of rage due to an irreverent American.
(CBS/AP) Libyan officials said Wednesday that U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens was among four Americans killed in an attack by Muslim protesters on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi the previous evening.
"I do condemn the cowardly act of attacking the US consulate and the killing of Mr Stevens and the other diplomats," Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur said on his Twitter account. "Amb. Stevens was a friend of Libya and we are shocked at the attacks on the U.S. consulate."
Abushagur said in a subsequent tweet: "I condemn these barbaric acts in the strongest possible terms. This is an attack on America, Libya and free people everywhere."
Only one death had been verified Tuesday night by U.S. officials, and the State Department had yet to confirm Stevens' death or the two others first reported Wednesday morning by the Reuters news agency. CBS News is seeking confirmation from U.S. officials.
The U.S. Embassy in Libya, in the capital city of Tripoli, would say Wednesday only that officials were still gathering information on the attack in Benghazi, which an official called an "intense battle".
Wanis al-Sharef, an Interior Ministry official in Benghazi, said a total of four Americans were killed when the angry mob, which gathered to protest a U.S.-made film that ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad, fired guns and burned down the U.S. consulate in Benghazi....
This is what leadership has come to, Twitter accounts, to influence the mob. I think societies are back to the Greek Colosseum.
In the military, the USA would not tolerate burning of a Quran because a soldier has power over others through munitions. We later saw that when another stalked a family residence in Afghanistan killing innocent people helpless to protect themselves. Terry Jones should not be allowed to continue his hate speech, especially when a video can impose this response. He needs to be prosecuted.
His complete hate of the Muslim faith is clearly illustrated by the burning of the holy book. So, now he is evangelizing his hate on video.
Hate is oppression. Hate is intended to suppress freedom.
It is time to call it as it is rather than as some would like to think of such expression of hate.
I have no doubt the political right wing will defend his practices as necessary and part of the First Amendment. Let them. Let them garner all the support for hate they want. They will be viewed as what they really are, political mainstays of Republican power sought after for votes. They taint the American landscape with hate and are pandered to by the political right wing.
It is time to end the hate speech of Terry Jones. The translation of his actions into actual deaths abroad is confirmed. He is killing people. In Rwanda that type of hate went to the World Courts. Using media to propagate hate is documented and people are jailed when it leads to deaths. It is time to hold him responsible.
In the military, the USA would not tolerate burning of a Quran because a soldier has power over others through munitions. We later saw that when another stalked a family residence in Afghanistan killing innocent people helpless to protect themselves. Terry Jones should not be allowed to continue his hate speech, especially when a video can impose this response. He needs to be prosecuted.
His complete hate of the Muslim faith is clearly illustrated by the burning of the holy book. So, now he is evangelizing his hate on video.
Hate is oppression. Hate is intended to suppress freedom.
It is time to call it as it is rather than as some would like to think of such expression of hate.
I have no doubt the political right wing will defend his practices as necessary and part of the First Amendment. Let them. Let them garner all the support for hate they want. They will be viewed as what they really are, political mainstays of Republican power sought after for votes. They taint the American landscape with hate and are pandered to by the political right wing.
It is time to end the hate speech of Terry Jones. The translation of his actions into actual deaths abroad is confirmed. He is killing people. In Rwanda that type of hate went to the World Courts. Using media to propagate hate is documented and people are jailed when it leads to deaths. It is time to hold him responsible.
