Friday, September 10, 2010
Response to "Obama implores minister to call off Quran-burning"
All week we have been hearing about Reverend Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida planning to engage in a Quran-burning protest on Sept. 11, but does anyone know why? The Quran is a sacred religious text of Islam. "Muslims consider the Quran the word of God and insist it be treated with the utmost respect. At least one cleric in Afghanistan said it is the duty of Muslims to react and that could mean killing Americans." The way I see it is this guy is trying to pull a publicity stunt, and when the president gets involved you know it's working. "Although Jones has said repeatedly he planned to go through with his plan despite the mounting pressure to call off the bonfire, USA Today reported Jones said in an interview that if the White House, State Department or Pentagon were to call him, "that would cause us to definitely think it over. ... I don't think a call from them is something we would ignore." Sure this can be seen as a smart way to get attention, but America is a diverse nation. There are quite a few people in the U.S. who follow and respect the Quran. Since there are so many people who repect the Quran, if Jones follows through with this it could cause major problems in our country.
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I agree that this is partially a publicity stunt but I think that its also a much deeper complex issue. A pastor is a man who cares deeply about the Christian religion and has strong, set religious beliefs. I think that the pastor is just closeminded to the other religious views out in the world and is overgeneralizing that building a mosque there is wrong and will hurt our country. While I agree that it is strange to build a place to worship the religion that that terrorists held that hurt us, not all the people who practice that religion are terrorists. If we can build fast food restaurants on the sight, office buildings, and other religious centers, why discriminate against a mosque?
ReplyDeleteI don't agree with the idea that its a publicity stunt. I think he's just a very opinionated person who is stubborn and will do whatever he has to do to get his way. The fact that he threatened to burn books unless he gets it his way is not acceptable. Burning books is unconstitutional. Just because you have a different opinion doesn't mean you take bend the law and do how you please. Where would our country be if everyone did what they wanted without following our constitution??
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