Threw together a quick political cartoon about Pastor Terry Jones’ “International Burn-a-Koran Day” and the lunacy about it.
Pastor Terry Jones Burn-a-Koran Day Political Cartoon
Since Pastor Terry Jones announced the “International Burn-a-Koran Day” that it has attracted a lot of media attention. I don’t blame the media, a religious lunatic saying he will burn copies of the Koran on 9/11 the 9th anniversary of one of the largest and most disastrous terrorist attacks in history.
Pastor Terry Jones justifies his religious intolerance by claiming it is to fight terrorism, it sounds more like a stunt to infuriate the Muslim community.
Doing the book burning on 9/11 is more insulting and humiliating to both British and American citizens then to the Muslim community a lot of people lost loved ones in the terror attacks on September 11th and they have moved on, for him to burn Koran’s on that day is not honouring the people who lost their lives and putting a sour taste on a day of remembrance.
But whether he should or shouldn’t be stopped from burning the Koran is another issue.
Wouldn’t it be infringing on his rights to stop him from in a way protesting something that wrong or right he strongly believes in. But letting him continue to breed religious intolerance doesn’t that do more harm than the upheaval of the church and the backlash from radical Muslim groups who have already said they are planning to burn American flags outside of the US embassy in protest. There has already been 3 Afghan deaths in Afghanistan.
There is also a mistake from the media, giving someone like Pastor Terry Jones so much international media attention.
Even though people like Terry Jones need to be turned into a public examples and make him in some way a laughing stock.
We also need to ignore his actions and give him the message that we do not care and it is just him and his ‘followers’ to burn some books and be ignored and given nothing in the form of attention, all this coverage has also brought out more religious zealots and xenophobes that want to burn Koran’s with him, in a way giving him benefit and making his ideals seem more agreeable because more people have turned up to that stunt.
What never makes any sense is the argument posed by people like Pastor Terry Jones. They say they are doing this kind of action because they are ‘fighting’ terrorism. But their method to fight extremism by being extremist, for example burning Koran’s.
Pastor Terry Jones in a fox interview said “We’re against a radical element of Islam even moderate Muslims should be on our side” burning their Koran, their holy book!.
Please Feel Free to post a comment and get on with the debate.
Artist/Author: Caleb Law age: 13
We should burn Pastor Terry Jones on a big bonfire of Christian Bibles for what he’s done to Christian/Muslim relations.
He puts our brave troops at risk in foreign countries by inciting religious hatred towards Muslims which as is seen by recent events in Afghanistan.
Muslims in countries like Afghanistan are like children with weapons, you don’t poke them to provoke a response and act surprised when someone gets killed.
Burn Pastor Terry Jones at the Stake
Yes. Terry Jones has every right to practice his freedom of speech and burn Korans.
If Muslims don’t like it they should not live in the USA where there is freedom of speech.
“Read” was the first word that was revealed from God to His Last messenger: “Mohamed”. The “God’s Order” was: “Read” not “Burn”. Quran’s revelation starts by this order: “Read.” All Muslims in the world are faithfully and wisely fulfilling this order at least five times every day. However, they “Read” Quran and “Read” the signs of God in the universe in every moment. This Book is the Mercy of God that enlightens and Guides their life.
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Surely this Quran guides (to a life) which is most upright (the straightest or the most stable),
As a miraculous piece of Heavenly source that was revealed in the dawn of human’s civilization, it yields not only aesthetic contentment but provides also the whole philosophic and scientific truth. It is a valuable tool to the lexicographer seeking to the scientist probing for clues concerning the existence of God, to a man seeking the evidence of the Day of Resurrection, to understanding the logic of human’s life, the constitution of good and evil, love and hate, happiness and misery, success and failure, mercy and cruelty, peace and war and all the life’s concepts as ordained by God for the whole mankind, and to the theologian who regards the Quran as the ultimate unchallengeable recourse for all religious knowledge.
Most of the verses of Quran have scientific logic and are based on modern scientific knowledge. No contradictions or conflicts have been found between Quran and modern sciences. There are many verses that newly interpreted according to discoveries of modern sciences. As examples it is possible to read the start of creation[21.30], the spherical shape of the earth [39:5], the stages of embryo growth in the womb [39:12-16], expansion of the universe [51:47], Big Bang [21:30] and Big Crunch [21:104] theories, the balanced cycles of the elements on the earth [15-19], the photosynthesis processes in the plants [36:80], the formation of clouds [24:43], the water as the liquid of life[21.31], the water cycle[9:35], and the wind functions[30:48, 15:22], and many others as can be seen in [www.harunyahya.com]. Similarly, there are several verses in the Quran which some geographers [30:3], historicists [28:38], geologists [35:27, 78:7], astronomers [6:97, 25:61] and psychologists [13:28] have interpreted as being compatible also with their modern discoveries.
Accordingly, Quran had initiated the Islamic Golden Age. The Golden Age of Islam characterizes a period in world history and human development. This period was guided by the faithful reading and understanding of Quran and it is traditionally dated from the mid-8th century to the mid-16th century just after the end of Mohammad’s mission. During this period Muslim scientists, artists, engineers, scholars, poets, philosophers, geographers and traders in the Islamic world “Read” and performed according to the spirit of Quran in their contribution to science, agriculture, economics, industry, law, literature, navigation, philosophy, sociology, and technology. Muslims founded new branches of sciences as Chemistry, Algebra, Light, Algorithms, Pharmacology, etc. Scientists as Fielding H. Garrison wrote in the History of Science: Arabs were the originators not only of algebra, chemistry, and geology, but of many of the so-called improvements or refinements of civilization, such as street lamps, window-panes, firework, stringed instruments, cultivated fruits, perfumes, spices, etc. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy_and_chemistry_in_medieval_Islam].
Muslims added also glorified inventions and innovations in different branches of science as Navigation, technology, industry, economics, etc. Howard R. Turner wrote: “Muslim artists and scientists, princes and laborers together made a unique culture that has directly and indirectly influenced societies on every continent.” Such History is recorded and is summarized in this site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
Andalusia was one of the routes of Islamic civilization to Europe and to the whole world. Records of such statement are summarized in this site: .
An Islamic Comment on a Reverend’s Crime against Quran (Koran): READ NOT BURN
If Muslims wish other people to respect to what is sacred to them, then they must show the same respect to what is sacred to other people.
However, in recent years this has not been the case.
In the 1990’s, against world-wide protests, the taliban destroyed ancient, sacred Buddhist statues.
Muslims world wide find it perfectly acceptable to burn the flags of other nations, both in their own, and even in those other countries.
I fully accept that the people who do this do not speak for the whole of the Muslim population, but Pastor Terry Jones doesn’t speak for the whole of the West, or all Christians.
The Qu’ran speaks of peace and tolerance. And it is only through tolerance of other people’s beliefs that we can have peace.
I condemn the deliberate provocation of publicly destroying that which others hold sacred, whoever is doing it, for whatever reason.
Qu'ran Speaks of Peace and Tolerance
Dear Sir Muslims are not responsible for Such action of Taliban. We consider them as unfair Muslims. But we respect your beliefs as a condition to be true Muslims. In Quran; it is stated in the introduction of the first Sura of Quran We should belief equally in all messengers of God: Moses, Jesus. Mohamed, Abraham, Jacob, Ismael, etc.
Taliban are not straight Muslim