Westboro Cult Will Torch Koran… And US Flag
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, September 10, 2010, 7:36 AM
You just knew these freaks were going to jump in on this goat rodeo.
The Westboro cult members are going to torch the Koran on Saturday… and the US flag.
The KC Star reported:
Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church announced tonight that it plans to burn the Qur’an and an American flag on Sept. 11, though the exact time and location haven’t been determined, a church spokeswoman said.
The burning would occur the same day that a Florida pastor had threatened to burn Qur’ans, which drew condemnation from President Obama, religious leaders and others.
Shirley Phelps-Roper, who announced Westboro Baptist’s plan, said they don’t think that pastor, Terry Jones, will carry out the burning.
Westboro Baptist Church has received international condemnation for its protests at the funerals of gay people and U.S. servicemembers. Church members burned a Qur’an two years ago in Washington, D.C.
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IOpian commented:
If they really wanted to make a statement they could torch themselves.
Hangtown Bob commented:
Well…… I guess that they figure that burning the American flag along with the koran will neutralize the hatred from the Islamofascists and protect them from retribution.
Hera commented:
On drudge there is news that two more churchs plan to burn the koran Saturday. Will the Obama administration reach out to those groups too?
BuddyG commented:
I’ve found that when my toddler acts up the best thing to do is ignore him.
kate commented:
People are upset. Some people don’t handle stress very well. The Resident and his elitist cronies don’t understand the conflagration they set in motion. Either it’s defused by wise action from adults (which we don’t currently have in the government) or it runs its course.
kato commented:
We need a college professor (or some other idiot) to tell us why burning a Koran isn’t a form of performance art.
If immersing a crucifix in urine or putting animal dung on an image of the Virgin have artistic value, and phony sophisticates are supposed to revel in all sorts of “subversive” messages, just think of the aesthetic possibilities of burning a Koran.
The grandstanding politicians. The herds of journolists. The wacked out religious cult. This is worthy of Heironymous Bosch. Where are our art professors?
martha commented:
How’s this for an idea?
We do not give these loons 1 more minute of undeserved attention?
No Man commented:
Everyone!
Rrun over to your window!
Throw it open!
And scream, “I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore!”
Do you feel better, now?
kansas commented:
They did the same thing back in 2008 and nobody paid attention. Now that the media is trying to create chaos it’s a big deal.
kato commented:
My comment at #8 is sarcastic, but think about it:
If the person burning the Koran was a NYC sodomite who Artforum and the Village Voice declared to be one of our great subversive artists, and the alleged artist said he was burning the Koran to make a statement about the treatment of the gay, lesbian and transgendered community in the Muslim world, the reaction of the politicians and journolists would be different than what we’re seeing here.
Obama would probably buy off the artist by giving him a big government arts grant so that the artist could produce anti-American and anti-Christian art instead with a subsidy from the American taxpayer. The art professors would swoon.
The serious messge: Liberalism is utter fraudulence.
Stanley commented:
Praise God for weirdos. They always said we are peculiar people.
As for the building of the Victory Mosque and taking into consideration that Rauf is a Sufi (by name only), I leave the following quote by one whose wisdom has transcended religious dogma and race and who is not a Sufi by name only but one whom has been transformed by the touch of God.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
This is the place where Rauf, needs to build the Mosque but he does not understand it yet.
The Elector of Saxony commented:
We live in a society which demands, for the sake of societal cohesion and liberty, that everyone must endure some insult, some word or action that he finds intolerable. Our Constitution and our whole political history makes it clear that we must err on the side of Liberty, or our Liberty is an illusion.
The call on the Left is for the GZ Mosque to be built in the name of “religious freedom”. Let’s see how Islam handles itself with a little pluralistic expression, first? ‘Kay? I want to see Muslims flocking to the TV to endorse this Koran burning as emblematic of the Liberty enjoyed in the West. I want to hear them say that they left places like Iran, Syria, and Pakistan because they rejected the violent theocracy that Islam spawned in their home countries, and wanted to live among free men, and not as slaves, which Islamic law requires them to be.
Third world societies resolve these conflicts through brutal repression. The “Leader”, the “Council”, the “Soviet”, the “Imams” decide what expression is allowed, and what will be crushed. They maintain societal cohesion through the systematic repression of ideas and expression. Liberty does not exist in these places.
Now we find ourselves entangled in a dance of death with these people, as we have invited them into our Nation without the slightest concern for their ability to accept the concepts of liberty and pluralism. After decades and generations in this country, where are the moderate Muslims? I don’t see them. Where are the Muslims who speak out for the Constitution? They don’t, because to them the Constitution is a document of the infidel. The Koran is Alpha and Omega.
The burning of the Koran is not the important part of this. The reaction to it is what will tell us all we need to know about the Muslims in our midst. The right to insult or desecrate is not what defines America. The forbearance of political or popular violence against those actors who shock and offend us, that is the sine qua non of American liberty. If they don’t get it yet, they never will and our Republic is in grave peril is we do not recognize this.
Chip Bennett commented:
You do realize, don’t you, that Dove Outreach is every bit as much a cult as Westboro Baptist? You do realize, don’t you, that Dove Outreach is joined at the hip with Westboro Baptist?
Why, then, are you defending the actions of Terry Jones while at the same time criticizing the actions of Fred Phelps?
They are both kooks, and cult leaders. As conservatives, we should be ignoring both; as Christians we should be disowning both.
just bob commented:
What the hell, burn every building that houses a quran.
Sandbur commented:
I urge every reasonable American to attend these Quran burnings – and be sure to bring your fire extinguisher!
If they can light the bonfire because of their freedom of speech, then we can exercise our freedom of speech by putting it out!
Sandbur commented:
Just waiting until the Phelps clan needs to conduct a funeral…
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