I ain't in no hurry, you go on,
And tell your friends I'm losing touch,
Fill their heads with rumours of impending doom,
It must be true ..
And tell your friends I'm losing touch,
Fill their heads with rumours of impending doom,
It must be true ..
So since September 11th is coming round again and Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida is set on making it National Burn a Qu'ran day, I thought I'd share my thoughts on his proposal.
If you were the head of an insignificant little church somewhere in Florida, how would you go about drawing attention to yourself. Fundraising, maybe? A door-to-door service, if pushed for ideas? No, I have a better idea. I'll declare war on Islam. I'll declare war on their holy book, and as a mark of respect for the victims of 9/11, I'll burn loads of copies of it. Ooh, and a facebook campaign wouldn't go amiss!
Pastor Jones: You're a fucking tossmonger extroardinaire.
I'm not religious. I don't read the bible. But I strongly doubt if there's a passage in there that justifies his latest idea. Granted, it's an excellent way of marketing his book, the subtly titled Islam is the Devil, but other than that, it's a bit of a crap move.
Sadly, under the first amendment of the US constitution, officials can't physically stop him. Freedom of speech or something. I support this, but I bet he'd be the first to speak out against the burning of bibles outside a mosque in the US somewhere.
He faces criticism from the White House, the US military and even the Pope, though its worth noting that these weird little American evangelical cliques rarely give a shit about what the Pope has to say. Its pretty much certain that this will push anti-american sentiment to new extremes, but this is ok because it's done in the name of the victims of September 11, and of good old American capitalism. If you have the backing of God and country, not even the terrorists can win.
His facial hair decisions are also one of the first causes for concern in my opinion.
If you were the head of an insignificant little church somewhere in Florida, how would you go about drawing attention to yourself. Fundraising, maybe? A door-to-door service, if pushed for ideas? No, I have a better idea. I'll declare war on Islam. I'll declare war on their holy book, and as a mark of respect for the victims of 9/11, I'll burn loads of copies of it. Ooh, and a facebook campaign wouldn't go amiss!
Pastor Jones: You're a fucking tossmonger extroardinaire.
I'm not religious. I don't read the bible. But I strongly doubt if there's a passage in there that justifies his latest idea. Granted, it's an excellent way of marketing his book, the subtly titled Islam is the Devil, but other than that, it's a bit of a crap move.
Sadly, under the first amendment of the US constitution, officials can't physically stop him. Freedom of speech or something. I support this, but I bet he'd be the first to speak out against the burning of bibles outside a mosque in the US somewhere.
He faces criticism from the White House, the US military and even the Pope, though its worth noting that these weird little American evangelical cliques rarely give a shit about what the Pope has to say. Its pretty much certain that this will push anti-american sentiment to new extremes, but this is ok because it's done in the name of the victims of September 11, and of good old American capitalism. If you have the backing of God and country, not even the terrorists can win.
His facial hair decisions are also one of the first causes for concern in my opinion.
