Good News of the Day: Pastor Terry Jones calls off controversial “International Burn a Koran Day,” remains a grade-A douche while doing so.
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SWEET!
But wait… the article linked to says:
Terry Jones said he was calling off the event after the group behind a planned Islamic centre near Ground Zero in New York agreed to relocate it.
But the cultural centre’s organisers said they had no plans to move it.
Is he just a loon??? Did he imagine the folks behind the “Ground Zero Mosque” (aka a Muslim community center 2 block from GZ) called him and said they’d cave?
He does believe in God and that burning the Koran was a good idea in the first place, so it’s hard to figure out where he draws the line between fantasy and reality.
Either way, it’s a shame he didn’t see/can’t admit the error of his ways—the idea that burning someone else’s holy book is a kind of harassment and a clear form of intolerance doesn’t seem to be an idea he can grasp. There’s no “negotiating intolerance.”
Building a mosque right on Ground Zero isn’t an affront to Christianity, it’s just insensitive to some of the 911 families. Declaring a day “International Burn a Koran Day” is an affront—not just all Muslims, but to all religiously tolerant people.
People are such idiots.
