Spare the Quran and Save the Woman

· Thursday, September 9, 2010

A Florida pastor's plan to burn the Quran on the anniversary of 9/11 is a breathtakingly dumb idea. It's bad for the country. As Gen. David Petraeus warned, this illiterate's stunt could incite violence against U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Pastor Terry Jones has argued that he enjoys a First Amendment right to burn the books. I'll buy that. Likewise, an imam has the right to build a mosque where he will, but he ought not claim that putting an Islamic center near ground zero would help build bridges across religious lines.

Jones explained his commitment to the pyrotechnics to ABC News. "If we don't do it, when do we stop backing down?"

He even has a point when he argues that any violence that follows his stunt would be on the hands of Islamic extremists. Although a better man would fear the consequences of enraging violent extremists and douse the flame.

It may well be that I'm giving Jones too much credit, but I think he and others have been driven mad by a media-elite double standard that requires the Christian religious right to be sensitive, but not Muslims.

When the controversy involves the ground zero mosque, the elites cite the First Amendment; when the controversy draws on the free-speech rights of the devout, editorial page editors switch to the issue of tolerance.

Social conservatives will never forget 1989, when taxpayer dollars bankrolled a National Endowment for the Arts grant for an exhibition that featured a photograph of a crucifix in the artist's urine. Elites pounced on the censoriousness of social conservatives. But when it comes to defiling a Muslim holy book, the same people who warned against censorship rediscover discretion and "tolerance."

There is no sense of proportion. The left portrays the religious right as extremists, if they oppose, say, abortion or same-sex marriage, while it ignores Islamic cultures' unequal and at times violent treatment of women and gays.

Witness Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43-year-old Iranian widow who was sentenced by the Iranian government to be stoned to death for adultery. Authorities later changed her sentence to death by hanging and now claim that Ashtiani is guilty of assisting in the murder of her husband. (Her supporters argue that a videotaped confession may have been coerced and doctored.) This mother of two could be hanged any day.

There are other victims as well. A young Afghan couple was stoned to death in August because they tried to elope. Recently, Time magazine told the story of a Bibi Aisha, an 18-year-old Afghan woman whose husband cut off her nose and ears, under orders from the Taliban, after she tried to escape mistreatment by her in-laws. Her real crime: refusing to be chattel.

Jones says that he has been praying as to whether to go ahead with his plans to burn Qurans on Saturday. May I suggest that instead of burning books, his congregation pray for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani?

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Comments

Tom

As you say: "The left portrays the religious right as extremists, if they oppose, say, abortion or same-sex marriage, while it ignores Islamic cultures' unequal and at times violent treatment of women and gays." Why is that? It isn't stupidity. Whether overt or covert, they are obviously at war with American values and American citizens. They are the intolerant extremists demanding complete surrender to their world-view. Some Americans, though they might not know how best to express it, have had a belly full of this crap. While they very well might be praying they are also taking action.

Posted September 9, 2010 at 7:10:25 AM


Nicole

I'm curious, what liberal publications do you subscribe to? Because I've subscribed to many over there years and there have been many an article and liberal organization fighting for women's rights in Muslim countries and decrying the violence against gays and lesbians. I think you may be confusing mainstream media with true progressive journalism such as Ms. Magazine, Mother Jones, Bust, etc...

For example:

http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/07/09/spared-from-stoning-iranian-woman-still-set-to-die/

http://motherjones.com/politics/2005/12/mohammed-was-feminist

http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/08/13/across-oceans-violence-is-violence/

Posted September 9, 2010 at 12:14:47 PM


Nicole

I'm curious, what liberal publications do you subscribe to? Because I've subscribed to many over there years and there have been many an article and liberal organization fighting for women's rights in Muslim countries and decrying the violence against gays and lesbians. I think you may be confusing mainstream media with true progressive journalism such as Ms. Magazine, Mother Jones, Bust, etc...

For example:

http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/07/09/spared-from-stoning-iranian-woman-still-set-to-die/

http://motherjones.com/politics/2005/12/mohammed-was-feminist

http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/08/13/across-oceans-violence-is-violence/

Posted September 9, 2010 at 12:16:35 PM


ME

One way to stop the NYC mosque would be to kill a pig or to spread pig manure on the site.

Posted September 9, 2010 at 12:33:08 PM


ME again

Do you realize that ANYONE who has ever eaten pork in any form is considered an infidel and can be murdered without fault under Sharia law? Think about that the next time you eat pie crust containing lard.

Posted September 9, 2010 at 12:34:09 PM


Howard Reed

Hello America,

And let's also pray that the real 'devil in the detail' lies within Islam and the alumnae of Goebbels University at American Pravda.

Let's also pray that in conjunction with each revelation by let's say, columnists and pundits like Ms. Sander, these two devilish entities become more and more irrelevant on a global scale.

Burning only enflames the already over zealous passions of the 'devils disciples' from all quarters. Exposing their hypocrisy weakens their premise too the desired irrelevant outcome.

Rev. Jones can do his country a better service by exposing the Quran, hence Islam and its leftist supporters, eventually relegating them to some far dank and musty corner in the gothic style edifice that houses their 'Hall of Shame'.

The Turban Torpedo

Posted September 9, 2010 at 12:51:30 PM


Howard Reed

Hello Again America,

Insert the words, will be revealed to lie, after the words details in the first sentence. Sorry about that. I type faster than my mind works sometimes. I'm sure lefties that are reading these comments will jump on that like a chicken on a grasshopper. Feel free to do so.

The Turban Torpedo

Posted September 9, 2010 at 12:55:35 PM


hcadd

Quran

do not burn = appeasement = incite violence

burn = incite violence

Islam = violence

Posted September 9, 2010 at 2:15:10 PM


Clyde

Early this morning Fox ticker ran a story I haven't been able to confirm: that the imam of NY promoting the Cordoba project threatened a world-wide violent backlash if the mosque were to be moved or put on hold. Let me get this straight. First they tell us about their good will by telling us all the concessions our leaders have made to islam. Now they threaten us if we don't acquiesce? Sounds just like the rabid terrorists threatening Israel. You think?

Posted September 9, 2010 at 2:43:12 PM


Abu Nudnik

I'm 50% against the burning.

One imbecile burns books

Thousands of imbeciles retaliate.

People who live in tyrannies don't understand limited govt. Thus Obama will be burned in effigy because they can't get their heads around the idea that he can't do something about it. To them, he just won't. So much for the reset button. Weird!!

Funny if it doesn't look like it's gonna be tragic.

I'm 50% in favor of the 9/11 burning. We're supposed to learn about Islam? Maybe they should learn about us.

Posted September 9, 2010 at 8:28:58 PM


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