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April 7th, 2011 | 
Author: Pakistani Catholic Didn't Burn Quran, Says Archdiocese …
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Would the Apostle Paul Have Burned A Copy of the Koran …
creationrevolution.com11/22/11
If the Apostle Paul were alive today, would he have burned a copy of the Koran or would he encourage believers to do so? There were two events that took place during Paul's third missionary journey that could be instructive …
On March 20, after putting on a symbolic judicial robe, Rev Jones, ordered a copy of the Koran to be torched in a portable fire pit, and it’s remains now sit in a plastic Home Depot bag in a storage room in his run-down church.
It has been stashed atop a pile of cardboard boxes, next to a tattered pair of boxing gloves, and it still smells of kerosene.
The Value Of The Koran And Any Other Book
Apart from the fiscal value, the Koran and any other book only has the value that you give it, but for whatever reason, many Muslims and perhaps others too, fail to understand this.
Videos have been made of the Bible being urinated on, being rammed down a toilet and burned etc., but to the best of my knowledge, modern day Christians have never attacked, let alone killed anyone for doing such things.
How Did Muslims Respond To The Burning?
Well just the threat of burning caused huge protests, and then on April 1, a mob attacked a U.N. compound in Mazar-e Sharif, in Afghanistan and slaughtered ten UN Workers, and on April 2, related protests in Kandahar left nine dead and more than 90 injured.
No Moral Equivalency
Regardless of whether you approve or not of Rev. Jones’s actions or not there is certainly no moral equivalency between burning a book and slaughtering people whose only crime was not to be Muslim!
The Defense Department At Gitmo
It might be of interest to consider how the Defense Depart at Gitmo treat the Koran.
A Defense Department employee gives a copy of the Koran to every suspected terrorist that requests one, even though the DoD knows full well that the Koran commands Muslims to kill the very person that gives it to them.
Standard procedure calls for the book to be handled only by Muslim military personnel but if that is not possible, then the non-Muslim must wear white gloves, and is further instructed to hold it in his right hand (indulging Muslim culture’s taboo about the sinister left hand.
The book is to be conveyed to the prisoners in a “reverent manner” inside a “clean dry towel".
All of the above can easily be seen to indicate that infidels are so low a form of life that they should not be touched!
The Ayatollah Ali Sistani teaches, non-Muslims are “considered in the same category as urine, feces, s****, dead bodies, blood, dogs, pigs, alcoholic liquors", and “the sweat of an animal who persistently eats unclean things".
Bible Burning In Afghanistan
And the very same Defense Department that is now piously condemning Koran burning did not give a second thought to the confiscation and burning of bibles in Afghanistan.
U.S. commanders ordered this purge in deference to sharia proscriptions against the proselytism of faiths other than Islam, and as General Petraeus well knows, his chain of command is not the only one destroying bibles and non-Muslim religious artifacts.
Bibles And Other Non-Islamic Artifacts Are Banned
Saudi government guidelines prohibit Jews and Christians from bringing bibles, crucifixes, Stars of David, etc., into the country, and non-Muslims are barred from entering Mecca and most of Medina, and this forbiddance is based on the classical interpretation of an injunction found in what Petraeus is fond of calling the Holy Qur’an (sura 9:28):
“Truly the pagans are unclean, so let them not approach the sacred mosque”.
Jones’s Behavior And Islamic Teachings
Jones’s actions were particularly aggressive and very antagonistic, but were they any worse than what is written in the Koran?
For example, Sura 9 of the Koran, commands Muslims to conquer and to kill non-Muslims!
9:5: “But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war) . . .”;
9:29: “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the last day, nor hold forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth, from among the people of the Book (the Jews) until they pay the jizya (the tax paid for the privilege of living as dhimmis under the protection of the sharia state) with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued”.
It might be well worth noting that nowhere in the Bible are Christians instructed to kill non-Christians!
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A Bold Rejection of America's Failed Diplomacy Sends Obama
Vetoing a Palestinian statehood bid at the Security Council will significantly damage one of President Obama's main foreign policy goals: to cast the U.S. as a champion of Arab freedom and democracy in a turbulent and …
Publish Date: 09/18/2011 4:36
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/17/1017848/-A-Bold-Rejection-of-Americas-Failed-Diplomacy-Sends-Obama-Administration-Scrambling
Obama's Foreign Policy Fails on Afghanistan, Israel – The Daily Beast
He was supposed to change Washington. But the president's strategy in the Middle East and Afghanistan has lacked courage and creativity—and pales in comparison with Bush's.
Publish Date: 09/07/2010 5:42
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/09/06/obamas-foreign-policy-fails-on-afghanistan-israel.html
One of the most refreshing things about George W. Bush’s memoirs, "Decision Points" is his honesty about his failings, and his unexaggerated comments on his successes, and there is much that Obama could learn from the book if he’d were willing to take on board at least some of what’s written there.
In the book Bush describes:
The basis for his key personnel appointments.
His stem cell policy.
The decision to take the fight to Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11
The mismanagement of Hurricane Katrina.
The economic blunders made before and during his tenure.
And he also highlights how his unpopular decision to implement the "surge" in Iraq turned out to be a crucial triumph in the “war on terror".
The Bush Doctrine – According to Bush
Beyond specific decisions and various turning points, his doctrine as noted in his book consisted of four main elements:
First, make no distinction between the terrorists and the nations that harbor them – and hold both to account.
Second, take the fight to the enemy before they can attack America.
Third, confront threats before they fully materialize.
Fourth, advance liberty and hope as an alternative to the ideology of repression and fear – His “Freedom Agenda".
The fourth agenda, which was perhaps the overriding one of the four was greatly influenced by the writings of Nathan Saransky and Ron Dermer.
Bush refused to accept that "the peoples of the Middle East were somehow beyond the reach of liberty", and he believed and perhaps still does that freedom is a universal objective that can, and should be obtained by all.
The Middle East revolution that began in Tunisia less than a month ago, and subsequently led to bloody protests and demonstrations in Yemen and Egypt may or may not lead to blossoming democracies, but for that to happen, lessons from mistakes made in Iran in 1979 and again in 2009 must be learned.
In 1979, President Carter stood embarrassingly idle, and in some ways tacitly encouraged the Islamic revolution that replaced the Shah, and in 2009 President Obama also stood idle as a popular uprising was struck down by the brutal Iranian authorities.
What Does Obama Need To Do?
This time around, if real democratic freedom is to be engendered in the Middle East, then President Obama will need to confront freedom’s enemies and not turn his back on America’s long term allies.
Democratic elections are only one element of freedom and, human rights, checks and balances, equal opportunity for all and the separation between religion and state are all indispensable freedom factors.
Iran and Gaza clearly show that a one-time democratic election can lead to the disaster of legitimized dictatorship, and there is every chance that elections in Egypt could lead to the spread of Sharia law rather than to the democratic rule of law throughout the Middle East.
* sharia –
n. (Islam) code of law based on the Koran; holy laws of the Islam which cover aspects of day-to-day life
Time, perspective and hindsight are required when passing verdict on a presidency, and history will judge Bush for the doctrine he set and the eventual success or failure of its implementation.
Truman, Reagan and Bush
When Truman left office in 1953 his approval ratings were in the twenties, but today he is viewed as one of America’s great presidents. Reagan was once ridiculed as a diplomatic dunce but will be remembered by most as the "Great Communicator" who won the Cold War and Bush may eventually be regarded as the best president of our time.
And Obama?
Obama’s agenda has alienated all of America’s previous staunch allies and gained no new ones, and his economic policies, unless halted by the Republicans will lead the country to bankruptcy by 2020.
Obama is far from stupid and the question is not, "Is he able to learn from Bush’s errors?", but, "How would he apply that learning?".
Until a recent five point drop in the polls and a pummeling from both politicians and journalists, it appeared the he would much prefer the Muslim Brotherhood to Mubarak.
Obama carefully hid his tracks and his policies and intentions are still not clearly understood, but how he eventually responds to the present crisis in the Middle East will provide many clues.
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