9.09.2010

Quran Burning Is "Suspended," Not Cancelled


Pastor Terry Jones apparently made a deal with imam Muhammed Musri of Florida. Jones said the deal was that he would not burn the Qurans on the condition that the imam moved the location of the mosque being built 2 blocks away from the World Trade Center memorial. But there's a disagreement on how the deal went: imam Musri says that was never the deal.
But later on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," Musri said that Jones was wrong about what he had said about the mosque. He said what he offered was a meeting among Jones, the New York imam and himself to talk about moving the mosque if Jones agreed to cancel the Quran burning.
MSNBC has the full interview of both Jones and Musri here.
Personally I believe a lot more in Musri's story. He seems a lot more studious and educated, as Jones' intelligence can be defined by his moustache. His defense is always something like "no it's not," and he barely uses any logical reasoning when making an argument. Any religious leader with any compassion and understanding would recognize the burning of someone else's sacred book as a horrible act of hate and a disgusting exhibition of values that could be misinterpreted as America's own. Jones doesn't seem to understand that not all Muslims are terrorists. In my honest opinion, I wish someone would put him out of his misery.

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