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PASTOR TERRY JONES: 'BURN!'

DECEASED U.N. WORKER: 'I HATE WHEN THE RANTINGS

OF A LUNATIC ARE INTERPRETED LITERALLY!'

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Rzeczpospolita, Poland

Muslims Must Condemn Murder of U.N. Workers

 

"The U.N. workers were murdered by real live Muslims, and they are obviously the guiltiest ones. Unfortunately, no one is hearing a resounding condemnation from the Islamic world for the killing of innocent people to avenge someone else's burning of their holy book."

 

By Jerzy Haszczyński

                                    

 

Translated By Halszka Czarnocka

 

April 3, 2011

 

Poland - Rceczpospolita - Original Article (Polish)

On March 20, a single copy of the Quran was burned in Florida, and on April 1st in Afghanistan, the killing of foreign United Nations workers began.

 

This makes us acutely aware that we live in a world where the irresponsible act of a backcountry American pastor can incite murderous rage in a crowd 7,500 miles away, on another continent and in another civilization. A representative of a minuscule U.S. community can imperil hundreds of people who Muslims identify more-or-less (rather less) with the civilization represented by that pastor.

 

The pastor's sole aim was to provoke. He knew perfectly well what the reaction of far away Muslims would be. He knew people might die. He declared that he was acting in defense of persecuted Christians in the Islamic countries, but in fact, he exposed them to even greater persecution.

 

The interest with which the media treated this local preacher's previous provocation, i.e., his unfulfilled promise to burn a Quran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, was also likely a factor. There is perhaps no other pastor in America whom the most important politicians, including President Obama, would implore to refrain from some act. This has resulted in a spiral of madness.   

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The pastor not only provoked a wave of murders in Afghanistan, but also considerably damaged the debate about Islam. He has provided arguments to frightened Westerners who prefer to say nothing and know nothing about Muslims, so as not to be exposed to the anger of Islam's radical representatives. By criticizing certain phenomena taking place within Muslim communities, both in the Islamic world and the West, the pastor put the weight of his own responsibility on every politician, journalist or writer who is against burning the Quran. Now everyone will think many times over before speaking out for fear of endangering people on humanitarian missions in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

 

The U.N. workers were murdered by real live Muslims, and they are obviously the guiltiest ones. Unfortunately, no one is hearing a resounding condemnation from the Islamic world for the killing of innocent people to avenge someone else's burning of their holy book. This, too, will make the debate with Muslims far more difficult.

 

SEE ALSO ON THIS:

Frontier Post, Pakistan: Message to America: This isn't Really About Pastor Jones

Asia Times, Hong Kong: True Spark of Protests: Possible U.S. Release of Taliban

Daily Jang, Pakistan: Afghan Security Situation Worsens After Quran Burning

The Star, South Africa: South African Muslims Prevent a 'Bible Bonfire'

Sotal Iraq, Iraq: Muslim Clerics Must 'Render Unto Caesar What is Caesar's'

Jakarta Post, Indonesia: The Ground Zero Mosque, Jewish People and Indonesia

News, Switzerland: Moderates in 'Radical Headlock' Over 'Ground Zero Mosque'

La Nacion, Chile: Extremists and the Media Put World on a Hair Trigger

Folha, Brazil: Xenophobia is Again in Fashion Around the World

Financial Times Deutschland: West Must Halt Downward Slide Since 9-11

El Mercurio, Spain: The 'Neo-Nazi' Campaign Against President Obama

El Mundo, Spain: Beck and Palin Search for Mythical 'Paradise Lost'

Der Standard, Austria: In Despair Over Democracy - Both America's and Ours

National Post, Canada: U.S. Democracy Suffers 'Death By Talk-Show Host'

La Jornada, Mexico: Beck and the New U.S.-Right: 'Like a Horror Movie'

Iraq News Agency, Iraq: Sarah Palin: The 'Seductress' of the American Election

Die Tageszeitung, Germany: Let's Punish Pastor Jones By Looking Away

Folha, Brazil: Pastor Jones Takes Journalists for a Ride

Der Spiegel, Germany: Daughter of Terry Jones Asks Dad: 'Papa, Don't Do It'

Der Spiegel, Germany: Jones Condemned By His Ex-Church in Germany

Telegraph, U.K.: Can One Idiot Really 'Threaten World Peace'?

Telegraph, U.K.: 9/11 Quran Burning: What U.S Law Says

Daily Star, Lebanon: Quran Burning a Threat to America and the World

Rheinischer Merkur, Germany: Cordoba House: Let it Be a Triumph of Tolerance

ABC, Spain: Cordoba House: The 'Impossible Mosque'

ABC, Spain: The Mosque Near Ground Zero: A Case of Insensitivity

La Opinion de Zemora, Spain: Cordoba House and 'Hussein of Yankeeland'

Guardian Unlimited, U.K.: The Poison Behind the Ground Zero Mosque Furore

The Telegraph, U.K.: The Depressing Debacle of 'Ground Zero Mosque'

BBC News, U.K.: Mosque Dispute Exposes Obama on Two Sides

 

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[Posted by WORLDMEETS.US April 6, 6:51pm]