Here we go again, the ugly face of intolerance and hypocrisy is being displayed on American soil by Americans. I have voiced concern over how our government is systematically stripping our freedoms from us through various manipulations of our nations laws and now this religious zealot - Florida Pastor Terry Jones - has taken upon himself further their cause by trying to ‘cleanse’ our country of an opposing viewpoint and stabbing our forefathers in the back by practicing the un-American, redneck, Nazi-like, KKK-based idea that these rights are “for me and not for you”.
The headlines read ‘Pastor plans to defy order and protest at mosque’. Here in America, we have a time-honored right to protest. I would fight to my dying breath to keep that right. But Americans and Christians also have two other tenets that are being trampled on. Freedom of Religion and Christian tolerance. These concepts are lost on this fool. It wasn’t enough that he burned a book that is holy to the Muslim religion, now he wants to defy a court order and hold a protest to their very presence here in America.
His actions is giving America and Christianity a black eye. But then again – in keeping with his narrow-minded Christian view - he is just the latest in a long list of fools who think human rights belong to only a ‘select’ few.
Denying a group of people the right to practice the religion of their choice doesn’t sound very Christian to me.
Don’t interpret this as being sympathetic to Islamic law. I am not by any means a fan of sharia and its systematic demeaning treatment of women, but, and this goes to the city of Detroit where Jones was arrested for his protest, he does have the right to protest just as the Islamic followers have a right to practice their religion. We created this country on these rights and we cannot deny those rights to anyone if we expect to remain free ourselves.
A much larger issue here is that Terry Jones was arrested and held not over something he did but what he said he plans to do. Since when is our law enforcement community authorized to arrest and detain Americans for planning?
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