Florida Church to Burn Qurans on 9/11

[Sceptic]

Does anyone know the background of this church? Reminds me of the Westboro Baptist Church. Ever wonder who funds the hate-filled groups & how they get so much exposure when groups like NARTH & PFOX get none whatsoever?

(Can't figure ot how to embed youtube vid, sorry)

Florida Church planning to burn Qurans on 9/11
 By Tom Mendelsohn
The Foreign Desk
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 at 12:56 pm

A Florida church is planning to burn a stack of Qurans on 11th September this year, in a tasteful effort to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Centre.

The Dove World Outreach Center, a non-denominational church in Gainesville, is charmingly trying to rebrand 9/11 as International Burn A Koran Day. If you’re interested, there’s a Facebook group for it. The info tab has a succinct little mission statement, which you may find illuminative:

Mission: To bring to awareness to the dangers of Islam and that the Koran is leading people to hell. Eternal fire is the only destination the Koran can lead people to so we want to put the Koran in it’s place – the fire!

The Dove Center, which describes itself as ‘a New Testament Church – based on the Bible, the Word of God’, has a bit of a history of making, shall we say, provocative statements about Islam. Its pastor and proprietor Dr Terry Jones recently published a sober treatise entitled Islam Is Of The Devil, while he also has a history of opposing things like homosexuality, same-sex marriage and abortion. If anyone is in Gainsville on 2nd August, for instance, you might like to swing by the City Hall at lunch time and join in the fun at the church’s ‘No Homo Mayor’ protest.

And in case anyone else was wondering what they really felt, they also have a massive sign outside their church, also saying ‘Islam Is Of The Devil’:

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It’s all deeply unpleasant, of course, and easy to mock, but unpleasant anti-Islam sentiments like these really do seem to be on the rise in the US. There’s a huge battle going on in New York over whether an entirely benign Muslim community centre – which would also contain a mosque – can be built near Ground Zero, for instance, while a mosque in Jacksonville, also in Florida, was firebombed earlier this year. It’s getting easier to draw parallels between the rise of the religious right and these kinds of tensions, and I really wouldn’t like to say we’ve reached their height, either, not by a long shot: brace yourselves for a good deal more of this unpleasantness as the new American right grows its fangs.

The Dove World Outreach Center, meanwhile, was subjected to an expose about the way it pays its taxes last year in The Gainesville Sun, while they were investigated for potential financial impropriety in March this year. It hasn’t really taken the wind out of their sails, however. You’ll note that, in the picture above, Dr Jones has a picture of himself flanked by Abraham Lincoln and George Washington – a little detail I’ll let speak for itself. His Youtube channel – named, without even a pinch of hubris, the Braveheart Show – is worth a watch if, like me, you relish the demagoguery of hateful maniacs.

Source: http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/07/28/a-poignant-way-to-mark-911/

Original links within article have been lost. Notice that major disinfo is present in the above article. They use the church's blatant hatred/racism as a shield to slip the reinforcement that opposition to abortion, same-sex "marriage" & GLBT lifestyle is also inherently "evil", undesirable & bigotted, simply because this church is associated with those things.

Does anyone know who runs this church? Can anyone in Florida have a little look-see? I'm guessing its followers are probably just a small bunch of ignorant sheeple, who have been genuinely misinformed & led to believe they are victims, their way is right & anyone who disagrees is wrong. Just like the GLBT crowd. Can't really blame them.

[WaltDisney]

Does anyone know who runs this church? Can anyone in Florida have a little look-see? I'm guessing its followers are probably just a small bunch of ignorant sheeple, who have been genuinely misinformed & led to believe their victims, their way is right & anyone who disagrees is wrong. Just like the GLBT crowd. Can't really blame them.

Ill look.
The video makes him look like a Southern Bumpkin hillbilly with 2 digit IQ.

Could be  a Judaic but I doubt it, more than likely a Shabbos Goy Judas with his Evangelical Zionist Synagogue.

There are literally tens of millions of such idiots.

[Sceptic]

Thanks, Sushi.

Ill look.
The video makes him look like a Southern Bumpkin hillbilly with 2 digit IQ.

Could be  a Judaic but I doubt it, more than likely a Shabbos Goy Judas with his Evangelical Zionist Synagogue.

There are literally tens of millions of such idiots.

Lol. Thanks, Walt

[sushigirl]

If it were not for these Armageddon nutcases (Estimated between 20 to 40 million,
who are the friends of the enemies of humanity), this could be possibly a better place.

Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour from huffpost on Vimeo.

(They are in Canada and Germany too)

[Sceptic]

If it were not for these Armageddon nutcases (Estimated between 20 to 40 million,
who are the friends of the enemies of humanity), this could be possibly a better place.

(They are in Canada and Germany too)

I think they vary in the degree of their lunacy zealousness. A very good friend (X) of mine belongs to a church that practises pure Christianity, just the Bible, no interference from external sources (according to friend).

I've come to realize [from a friendly debate on the Holocaust via email (that culminated in one person screaming to me that Jesus is coming in defence of the Holocaust), plus all the subtle pro-Israel stuff X has sent, including a vid that claimed it was useless to boycott Israel b/c Jews & Israel are involved basically everything (I pointed out that the boycott does work)] that X's church believes in the doctrine that Jews are the Chosen Ones, as X said to me that whether or not people like them there, they just have to be. I think they believe that Jesus will return & save the jews etc & restore the land to them. No word on the faith of Palestinians in all this.

X is really nice about it, though. X often calls them 'land stealers'. But I doubt X's church will express open support for Palestinians. I think their attitude is sort of 'just let it happen, do not resist God's will'.

[FLAT_HEADED_RUSSIAN]

crazy old man
the cross on his church is broken, he never bothers to fix it- somethings wrong
crazy old man with nothing to say
this is not a christian church - there is another agenda here

[sushigirl]

X is really nice about it, though. X often calls them 'land stealers'. But I doubt X's church will express open support for Palestinians. I think their attitude is sort of 'just let it happen, do not resist God's will'.

I have acquaintances like that too, nice ones, worldly, well educated, good jobs, yet steeped in religion, believing that JC will come back in glorious technicolor - soon....  and everything will be OK again.

Everlasting peace!