Let's throw some gas on this fire! "Pastor who burned Koran demands retribution"

[Contrary1]

:crazy: "GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Before a Koran was burned at his modest church here on March 20, the pastor Terry Jones held a self-styled mock trial of the holy book in which he presided from the pulpit as judge. The prosecutor was a Christian who had converted from Islam. An imam from Dallas defended the Koran .

Sitting in judgment was a jury of 12 members of Mr. Jones’s church, the Dove World Outreach Center . After listening to arguments from both sides, the jury pronounced the Koran guilty of five “crimes against humanity,” including the promotion of terrorist acts and “the death, rape and torture of people worldwide whose only crime is not being of the Islamic faith.”

Punishment was determined by the results of an online poll. Besides burning, the options included shredding, drowning and facing a firing squad. Mr. Jones, a nondenominational evangelical pastor, said voters had chosen to set fire to the book, according to a video of the proceedings.

Mr. Jones said in an interview with Agence France-Presse on Friday that he was “devastated” by the killings of 12 people in a violent protest in Afghanistan when a mob, enraged by the burning of a Koran by Mr. Jones’s church, attacked the United Nations compound in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. “We don’t feel responsible for that,” he told the news service..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42386587/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/

[Old and In the Way]

1. Sitting in judgment was a jury of 12 members of Mr. Jones’s church,

Yeah, that's an impartial jury. What a joke. No choreography going on there. So this 'Dove' World Outreach (another joke)....a kinder, gentler version of Westboro Baptist? If I believed in a judgmental God and the Bible...I'd have to also believe that this guy is doing the Devil's work. Since I don't, I just think he's consumed with hatred. Really, no difference between him and his Ayatollah counterpart in Islam. Meanwhile, the vast majority of sane people in both cultures suffer when these people are given media oxygen.

[roguevalley]

9. he's not devastated. you have to have a functional soul to do that

I can't wait for a bunch of Muslims to burn a Bible. Wait for the screaming and I am a Christian. This man is not a Christian.

[Kerrytravelers]

2. At least these idiots are outing themselves publicly.

I know where to avoid going and who to avoid meeting.

[n2doc]

3. You First, Jones

We should drop him off in southeastern Afghanistan and see how he does. We could even offer to give him his choice of gun.

[xchrom]

4. +1

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. He could do some missionary work, don'tcha think???

[spanone]

5. fuck terry jones......fuck his sick twist on religion

[Obamanaut]

7. Or the sick twist by radicals who kill people for burning a book, or

being gay, or having sex outside of marriage.

[Aerows]

6. He graduated with Rush Limbaugh

And ran a church that was described as a cult. He's your typical authoritarian right-winger attempting to stir up hate so he can control other people and get publicity and money. He'll be sob-storying on every conservative outlet imaginable for cash after this, I'm sure. Some people will be dumb enough to give it to him, too, and he'll probably entrap others into his cult.

[Angry Dragon]

8. He needs to return the car he got for not burning it last time

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. We are a global community.

When are these fuckers going to figure it out? The internet and communication advancements in technology has created a situation where we may feel free on our own soil, but everything we say or do might have an effect on the other side of the world. It's the butterfly effect, and they can't say they weren't warned.