Sunday, September 12, 2010
Burning the Quran...?
After the radical Muslim attack on the World Trade Center, many Americans were quick to become patriotic. Nine years later it has turned one man in particular into an American radical. Reverend Terry Jones is an American preacher who seeks to put a quick end to the building of a Muslim mosque on ground zero. He believes that burning the Quran will send a message to all Muslim Americans as well as those in the rest of the world. In his mind, because the Quran is not the Bible, it is wrong. "He cited his belief that the Quran is evil because it espouses something other than biblical truth and incites radical, violent behavior among Muslims." I understand where he may come off saying such a thing, but burning one book will not prevent people from reading it in other parts of the world. Destroying the holy book would only enrage extremists to another level and add unnecessary violence to the equation. While I do not agree with the construction of a mosque on/near ground zero in New York, I think that Jones is taking the wrong route to preventing it from happening. The Twin Towers were brought down by Muslim extremists in the name of Islam and to build a monument that is preaching the same faith in the same area does not make any sense to me. It is disrespectful to those who have lost loved ones in the crashes. In conclusion, neither Reverend Terry Jones nor the people who want to build the mosque is correct. Peace, in this case, can only be found through respectful inaction.
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I agree with virtually everything you said. Both Reverend Jones and the Ground Zero Mosque proponents are wrong. I think that the Quran burning can only be destructive, and the building of the Ground Zero Mosque disrespects the damage radical Islam did in 2001. Both should stop trying to create a conflict, and stop.
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