Pastor Terry Jones
In
a nicely written article today entitled “Bonfire of the Insanities” the devastatingly astringent Ann Coulter skilfully skewers the hypocrisy of so many of politicians who only days ago were championing the democratic rights of those seeking to cause deep offence, by building an “Islamic centre” and mosque on the site of buildings damaged in the September 11 2001 terrorist attack on Manhattan, but who are now condemning as “dangerous and disrespectful” Florida Pastor Terry Jones's plans to charcoal grill a few copies of the koran this coming Saturday.
Under the fist amendment of the US constitution Pastor Jones has every right to express his views about the Koran, or any other political tome, in any manner he sees fit. That right is vital to the freedom and health of a democracy, and the American people must resist all attempts by the current administration to take it away from the, which it will do if it is given the chance.
As a resident of Britain, a country where free speech is a limited right and any speech which threatens the establishment's plans to impose a multi-racial society on an unwilling population was prohibited over 30 years ago, I am jealous of that first amendment and I urge our trans-Atlantic friends to treasure and protect it.
However, although I doubt he reads this blog, I also urge Pastor Jones to reconsider his ill-conceived plans.
In doing so I am not concerned that this act of book burning is likely to incite Muslims to violence, which is the disingenuous reason given by everyone from the Pope to Barrack Obama via Tony Blair, General Petraeus, Mike the moron Bloomberg and Hillary Clinton. The fact is that whatever we in the west do, Muslims will find an excuse to be incited to violence by it.
There is an endless list of activities that enable us to protect ourselves, our society andor our way of life which we are now warned will “act as a recruiting sergeant for al Quada”. Merely writing books, drawing cartoons or legislating against the wearing of face masks in public places are enough to send the adherents of Islam into a murderous rage and provoke them into acts of violence. Only today, we were told by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf that were he now not to build his provocative Manhattan mosque, that in itself would "provoke militant Muslims".
We can not live our lives in fear of provoking people who will be provoked by whatever we do.
No, I am not suggesting that Pastor Jones rethink his book burning plans for fear of offending the cult of the perpetually offended. Instead I suggest that he rethinks his plans because of the way that the left, and in particular the left wing media will exploit his unwise act and the lies it will enable them to tell.
If that little church in Gainsville so much as burn a single Koran on Saturday, that act will be used to excuse and justify any number of violent atrocities committed by the hate fuelled followers of the bloodstained cult of Islam.
You can be sure that were Islamic fanatics to set off a bomb in the paediatric ward of a hospital in any American or European city, killing and maiming a hundred Western infants, CNN, the BBC, the New York Times, the Guardian and the rest, together with our craven political leaders, would present it as the entirely reasonable response to an act of Islamophobic intolerance.
Pastor Jonse's plans play right into the hands of the apologists for terror, and they will use it to excuse their darlings for whatever horror they commit.
Islam deserves to carry the responsibility for their own bloodthirsty acts. This plan will give them the fig leaf they will use as fake mitigation and the excuse to portray themselves as victims. We must not give them that excuse.
They, not we, must carry the blame for what they do
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Related:
This story didn't seem to make the news earlier this year, certainly there were no reports of Christians threatening to kill anyone over it!!
Hat Tip: Alanorei
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UPDATE:
It seems that Pastor Jones has rethought the idea
