I have been bothered by the Quran burning stories and related articles recently. But not in the same way that it seems like all the public figures have been. Something just wasn’t right in the way it was covered and how the comparisons were made between “the Bible burning and christian’s reaction” and “the sugestion of Quran burning and muslim reactions”. Then I read this article this morning.
This article sums up my feelings and what we are really facing here. It is an extreme double standard overlayed with extreme deception. We are told up is down and down is up. Our world is spiraling out of control and most don’t even know it. We are losing a silent creeping war that we don’t even acknowledge that we are fighting, the “don’t offend” war.
This quote sums it up best:
The AFA issues analysis director believes the whole incident illustrates the difference between Christianity and Islam. “When these Bibles were burned [in May 2009], the Christian community did not riot in the streets; we did not threaten violence against anyone,” he points out. “[But] when even the threat of Qurans being burned takes place, it’s like we’re dealing with Armageddon [or] with World War III.”
Fischer adds that Christianity is a religion of peace, but Islam is a religion of war and violence.
Another good example of this is an article I saw yesterday: City Council Meetings to Begin with Muslim Prayers. It is not the fact that they are opening the meetings with muslim prayers, it is the reasoning they gave.
They stated that they would be opening all of their September council meetings with muslim prayers as “an act of solidarity” due to the recent anti-muslim rallies. Excuse me, but did I warp into another alternate universe?
It was America that was attacked by muslims on 9/11, nine years ago. And the protests are due to the insensitivity of the muslims trying to build an 11-story mosque a block from ground zero. Shouldn’t it be the muslims we are asking to be sensitive to our citizens feelings and not the other way around? Up is down and down is up!
We live in an hypocritical society these days. The deception is so overwhelming and hypocrisy so thick you can not see the Truth!
We must turn back to God for the Truth.
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Holy book burnings spark hypocrisy
A pro-family organization says it’s hypocritical for high-ranking officials in the Pentagon to condemn a Florida church’s plans to burn Qurans when U.S. military personnel burned Bibles last year in Afghanistan.
Pastor Terry Jones told reporters outside his church in Gainesville Wednesday afternoon that he remains unconvinced that “backing down is the right thing” to do regarding the planned burning of Qurans on Saturday. That protest has drawn objection from Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. and NATO commander, who says images of burning Qurans will be used by extremists to inflame public opinion and incite worldwide violence. (See earlier story)
Earlier today on ABC’s Good Morning America, President Barack Obama criticized the event, calling it a “stunt” and warning it could become “a recruitment bonanza for al-Qaeda.” Other notable Obama administration officials, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have also condemned the planned Quran burning.
But Bryan Fischer, director of issues analysis at the American Family Association (AFA), thinks it is the height of hypocrisy for the U.S. government to condemn the church, considering the fact that the U.S. military incinerated Bibles that were sent to Afghanistan in May 2009.
“There’s really a staggering level of hypocrisy and double standard here for the military to burn the Holy Bible and then complain when a pastor’s going to do the same thing to the Quran,” Fischer contends. “You know, if the military was going to be fair here and even-handed, they would count up the number of Holy Bibles that they incinerated in Afghanistan, and then they would allow Reverend Jones to burn the same number of Qurans.”
The AFA issues analysis director believes the whole incident illustrates the difference between Christianity and Islam. “When these Bibles were burned [in May 2009], the Christian community did not riot in the streets; we did not threaten violence against anyone,” he points out. “[But] when even the threat of Qurans being burned takes place, it’s like we’re dealing with Armageddon [or] with World War III.”
Fischer adds that Christianity is a religion of peace, but Islam is a religion of war and violence.
In a OneNewsNow poll conducted in May 2009, more than 60 percent of respondents said — in reaction to the decision by the U.S. military to destroy the Bibles — that “if it had been the Quran, this never would have happened.”
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