Pastor Terry Jones is still planning to burn Korans on September 11th but there’s opposition coming from within Christendom.
The National Association of Evangelicals has condemned plans by a Florida church to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
“The proposed burning of Qurans would be profoundly offensive to Muslims worldwide, just as Christians would be insulted by the burning of Bibles,” the NAE said in a Thursday (July 29) statement.
“Such an act would escalate tensions between members of the two faiths in the United States and around the world.”
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“The proposed burning of Qu’rans would be profoundly offensive to Muslims worldwide, just as Christians would be insulted by the burning of Bibles. Such an act would escalate tensions between members of the two faiths in the United States and around the world.”
“We have to recognize that fighting fire with fire only builds a bigger fire,” said Joel Hunter, Senior Pastor of Northland, A Church Distributed, in Orlando, Fla., and member of the NAE Board of Directors. “Love is the water that will eventually quench the destruction.”
I’m pretty sure that saying you’re not going to burn a Koran after you’ve already threatened to do so isn’t the same thing as spreading love… but good for the NAE for coming out against this.
Now, do they also support the building of a mosque near Ground Zero…? Because then, they’d just be messing with all the negative stereotypes I have about them, and that wouldn’t be very nice of them at all.
(Thanks to Claudia for the link!)
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