Week 9: First Amendment & the News

"With respect to the individual down in Florida, let me repeat what I said a couple of days ago. The idea that we would burn the sacred texts of someone else's religion is contrary to what this country stands for," Obama said. "My hope is this individual prays on it and refrains from doing it." Quoted from www.miamiherald.com. I personally Pastor Jones from Gainsville Florida is insane and his plans for burning a holy book (The Quran) are ridiculous. The fact that it in protest of a Masjid (mosque) that’s proposed to be built in New York and not Florida only proves ignorance and misuse of the first amendment right. This would only cause misunderstanding between believers of Muslim faith and Christianity be the Catholics or Protestants all over the world and not only in America. It will create riots and violence amongst believers. American will not be safe because this would create an excuse for Jihads and terrorist bomber to attack America both local and occupations in foreign grounds. The Rev. Terry Jones from the Dove Outreach Center in Florida triggered outrage when he promised to burn the Koran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Thousands of Afghans are protesting a small American church's plan to burn the Muslim holy book. At least 11 people have been injured. Police in the northern province of Badakhshan say several hundred demonstrators ran toward a NATO compound where four attackers and five police were injured in clashes. Protesters also burned an American flag at a mosque after Friday prayers. Muslims see Quran burning threat as targeting the direct word of God. The Quran is the most sacred object in the daily lives of Muslims and burning it would be considered an offense against God. Islam teaches that the holy book is the direct word of God, received by the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel, and it defines the belief and conduct for followers of the religion. I believe that the people behind Pastor Jones evangelic church have not had the opportunity to read a page of the Quran, and their participation in burning the holy book will be out of ignorance. Such leaders that misuse their role in society by giving wrong guidance and teaching the wrong message should be stripped of their privileges. They act with no consideration of humanity, other people's lives and their followers.