stevenlmeyer,

Like Jones your intention is to steer a path towards conflict. I can site hate speeches by Christians and Jews just as easily as you can for Muslims. I can also highlight injustices meted out by Christians and Jews agains Muslims (contemporary, not of the past). But unlike you i do not believe that gives me any right to discriminate and persecute people based on their religion. And this isn't just a personal thing, but something embedded in the religion of Islam itself.

Stevenlmeyer,Perhaps the Zionists should stop the gradual genocide of the Palistinians,then the lunatic Muslims will stop hating them.

Religion is a curse and the crutch for insecure humans.

Arjay: <<Stevenlmeyer,Perhaps the Zionists should stop the gradual genocide of the Palistinians,then the lunatic Muslims will stop hating them.

Religion is a curse and the crutch for insecure humans.>>

The irony in these remarks is that the front-man for the global persecution of Muslims (tax hijabs, burn their Koran), Geert Wilders, is an ATHEIST who draws his funding from right-wing ZIONISTS:

http://www.dutchnews.nl/columns/2010/06/wilders_and_the_us_israel_lobb.php

As for the crutch remark, Muslims (from young to old) have just completed 30 days of fasting which means no drink, food, sex etc from dawn to sun-set each day: an exercise in sincerity, unity, commitment and self-control (not to mention outpouring of charity that comes with it) that belies your depiction of us as "insecure humans". We feel bloody confident and secure in our belief, mate!

What about you? Unlike yourself and others, I feel no compulsion to resort to such insults?

The laws of every organized society form a
complicated pattern of balanced
freedoms and restrictions. Some people think
of laws as the natural enemies of freedom. Anarchists
believe that all systems of government and laws
destroy liberty. Most people believe that the law
both limits and protects the freedom of the individual.
For example, it forbids people to hit others. But it
also guarantees that people will be free from being
hit.

What I'm trying to say is that the major reason that
we have for restricting freedom in our society is
to prevent harm to others. To achieve the goal of
equal freedom for everyone, a government may have to
restrict the liberty of certain individuals or groups
to act in certain ways. Laws banning racial
discrimination in employment is an example.

Society limits personal freedom in order to maintain
and keep things running smoothly. When two cars cannot
cross a road junction at the same time without
colliding, regulations specify which should go first.

Every person must accept certain duties and
responsibilities to maintain and protect society.

People who enjoy the rights of free speech and
expression have a duty to respect other people's
rights. A person's freedom of expression is limited by
the rights of others. All societies, including
democratic ones, put various limitations on what
people may say and do. The idea of personal
freedom has nearly always carried with it some
amount of duty to society.

Pastor Terry Jones with 50 parishioners plans to mark the anniversary of the abhorrent events that occurred on September 9, 2001 (9/11) by publicly burning two hundred Qurans to show the hate they feel towards Islam and Muslims.

Dr Muqtedar Khan is right to feel indignant at this totally unchristian demonstration of intolerance. The act that was committed on 9/11 represents the behavior of a minuscule number of an obscure Muslim sect.

Following 9/11 there wasn’t a Muslim country that didn’t condemn the act and even Syria offered its assistance.

Dr Khan as much as I disagree with the Pastor’s planned burning I believe that he has every right to do so.

Fellow Muslims I beg restraint and remember that the Quran is only so much paper and ink. If your belief in Allah is strong you should pray to Him to forgive Pastor Terry and his practitioners for their ignorance.

Cartoons of Prophet Mohamed, books and insults have rained down on Islam. Muslim overreaction, creates an importance out of proportion to the deed and give the perpetrators far more attention than they deserve.

When hypocritical EU countries break their own laws to specifically discriminate against Muslim women then they should be presented before the UN court of Human Rights and should be shown for what they are, racists and uncivilized bigots.

Muslims must object to things of substance and not ego: The invasions and slaughter of our brethren in Afghanistan and Iraq, President Obama relocating troops from Iraq for possible use in Afghanistan or Iran. The Israelis continuing theft of Arab land to build more settlements in contravention to UN resolution 242 of 1967 and Israel's starvation of Gaza through the illegal act of collective punishment by an illegal siege.

Leave Pastor Jones and his congregation alone. Leave those that write book on Islam alone and leave those that draw Prophet Mohammad alone They don't harm us, they don't kill us. We are offended but there are many things in this world designed to offend us and detract our attention of the continual murder of Muslims.

Incidently, this episode is nothing new. The Westboro Baptist Church burned the Koran back in 2008 on the anniversary of 9/11.

The fact is, Jews, Christians and Muslims have always despised eachother, do despise eachother, and will continue to despise eachother until everyone works out that the Bible and Koran are nothing more than contemporary Iliads.