For the first time in his several visits to Dearborn, Quran-burning Florida Pastor Terry Jones’s demonstration Saturday in front of the city Islamic Center of America was rather uneventful. Jones and supporters gathered in front of Dearborn’s largest mosque Saturday afternoon to speak out against what they say are signs of Sharia–or Islamic law–in Dearborn and other U.S. cities.
DetroitNews Jones also called for a worldwide burning of the Koran on April 28 if an imprisoned pastor in Iran isn’t freed from a death sentence after converting from Islam to Christianity. “I’m asking the imam of the Islamic Center here in Dearborn to work with me to free Minister Youcef,” said Jones, of Youcef Nadarkhani, currently facing death for preaching Christianity in Iran.
Dearborn Patch While several of Jones’ supporters were heckled by counterprotesters on their way to the grassy area in front of the mosque, no arrests were made and things stayed relatively peaceful.
The majority of the anti-Jones crowd came as part of the southeast Michigan-based activist group By Any Means Necessary. Last June,several members of BAMN were arrested when they mobbed Jones as he attempted to march from Dearborn City Hall to the Arab International Festival.
This Saturday–almost one year to the day since Jones’s first attempt to speak in front of the mosque was thwarted by local officials–he and his supporters were nowhere near the counterprotesters. Instead BAMN members and several local residents stood near Ford Road east of the mosque; some held signs and yelled chants against Jones, while others said they were just there to watch.
Last year, Jones and his associate Wayne Sapp were found “likely to breach the peace” by a jury in Dearborn after their planned protest on Good Friday brought them to the 19th District Court. In that decision, Dearborn Chief Judge Mark Somers ordered Jones and Sapp to pay a $1 peace bond each, and to stay away from the Islamic Center and adjacent area for three years. They refused, and were briefly jailed. Jones and Sapp appealed the ruling, and a Detroit judge overturned the ban on Nov. 11.
Jones, today, spent much of the demonstration listing off what he said is evidence of Sharia Law at work in Dearborn and other U.S. cities. Among his claims, Jones pointed at the installation of footbaths at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, the serving of Halal meals at Dearborn Public Schools, and the late-night football practices of the Fordson High School football team held during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Arab American News“We think that people like Terry Jones should be stopped from building a movement,” said Donna Stern, a Detroit resident and BAMN member. “This is a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Islamic movement. This man is the perfect example of someone who would incite the type of violence that we saw occur in California when a woman was murdered for wearing a headscarf.” (Except for the fact that she wasn’t murdered for wearing a headscarf and was probably murdered by a family member or friend of a family member)
Tristan Taylor, another BAMN member echoed in on some statements of his own. “We need to make it clear that we won’t tolerate racist thugs and hate speech in our communities. We need to treat this threat seriously and making sure that we are not silent,” Taylor stated. “Hitler started off small and the approach people took was to ignore him. That gave him even more opportunities to build a stronger base. That’s why it’s important that we stop his message now before it grows,” he added. (It’s always amusing when people compare sharia opponents to Hitler, apparently ignorant of the fact that Hitler and the Mufti of Jerusalem worked together to destroy the Jews)
Pentagon urges controversial Florida pastor to stop Qu’ran burning plans
[…]The Pentagon is appealing to Florida pastor Terry Jones against repeating last year’s burning of the Qur’ran and images of Muhammad that led to widespread rioting and deaths round the world
US officials are monitoring the situation and the military is fearful for the lives of American soldiers in Afghanistan and elsewhere if Jones goes ahead with his plan, announced on his website, to set fire to the Qur’an next week.
Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Centre in Gainesville, Florida and self-appointed scourge of Islam, has set a deadline of 5pm on Saturday April 28 for his demands to be met for the release of a Christian religious leader in Iran.
If the Iranian cleric Youcef Nadarkhani is still imprisoned, Jones says he will set fire to a Qur’n and multiple images of Muhammad.
Commander Bill Speaks, a Pentagon spokesman, told the Guardian: “We are aware of Pastor Terry Jones’ threat to burn a Qur’an, and are monitoring the situation. The last time Pastor Jones burned a Qur’an, back in March of 2011, more than 16 people died and more than 90 people were injured from the resulting protests. We hope Pastor Jones will take into account the safety and welfare of deployed US military personnel before engaging in such an activity again.”
Afghanistan is a conservative and deeply religious country, 🙂 🙂 🙂 where outrage at desecration of Islam’s holy book transcends boundaries of ideology, wealth and education, and there is little understanding of the legal constraints on authorities in America.
[…]Maulavi Mohammad Qalamuddin, deputy head of the virtue and vice ministry under the Taliban regime, said: “This person who is planning to burn the holy book in Florida is an ignorant person. He is crazy, like an animal. This man is going to make the Muslim people of Afghanistan emotional … It is the job of the American government to stop him and capture him.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/20/pentagon-florida-pastor-quran-burning
http://www.youtube(dot)com/watch?v=tl8k2kANCPc
God bless you Pastor Jones. I did not agree with your call to burn the Koran, but I see now how smart you are. Keep the good work in fighting evil.
WE THE PEOPLE must unite and get rid of this Muslim in the black mosque (the White house). He is the most dangerous man in the history, not only of America, but the entire globe. Power in the hands of stkupid men is an extremly serious matter.
The rest of the Pastors and Priests and Rabbi need to be awakened and on the street.
Anybody else notice the banner in the last image featured that reads:
UNITE AGAINST BIGOTRY AND RACISM
ARAB, MUSLIM, BLACK, LATINO, ASIAN ? WHITE (<- Had to be last, of course)
UNITED FOR EQUALITY
WE WILL FIGHT
Other than the hypocritical message it portrays.. the banner differentiates MUSLIM with ASIAN, in their OWN words.
Pity the leftist media don’t!
Sure we’re uniting against bigotry and racism, that’s why we’re united against the most proliferators of it.. the MUSLIMS!
To that idiot waving the sign in the picture, “Muslim” is not a race.
You, Muscumbugs, bring your sharia back to that filthy rat infested poverty stricken stink Pakistan and have sex with your donkeys!
May the Good Lord protect you Pastor Jones. Islam is intolerant. It is a cult not a religion!
“we must make it clear that we won’t tolerate racist thugs and hate speech in our communities”. translation; we must make it clear that we will not TOLERATE any other opinion in our communities except our own.
Liberty, rather than Sharia.
THE PURPOSE OF SHARIA IS TO DESTROY KAFIR CULTURES AND REPLACE THEM WITH THEOCRATIC TOTALITARIANISM.
Say no to Sharia tyrrany.
Gooooo Papa Jones!
Here’s a partial list of problems with DISCRIMINATORY Sharia:
-Arab women may not marry non-Arab men.
-Muslim women must marry Muslim men.
-Female sexual mutilation (circumcision) is mandatory.
-Women may not leave their home without a husband’s permission.
-Men may beat insubordinate wives (and today’s technology provides video instruction).
-Adultery is punished by death by stoning (definitely for women, sometimes for men).
-A woman’s testimony in court is only worth half that of a man. (Muslim value of women.)
-Non-Muslim women married to Muslim men may not testify in Sharia courts. (Ah, equity.)
-Rape must be verified by four male witnesses. (Talk about the deck being staked against a woman.)
-Forced child marriage is allowed.
-Aggressive, military Jihad of conquest is a religious duty.
-Non-Muslims have inferior status in Muslim society (Dhimmis).
-Capital punishment for slandering Islam.
-Capital punishment for apostasy (leaving Islam).
-Capital punishment for homosexuals and lesbians.
-Slavery is legal.
-Lying to infidels (unbelievers) is allowed. It’s known as Taqiyyah.
-Polygamy is allowed.
And that’s just a wee bit of a peek into this Islamic Venus Flytrap: SHARIA
THE PURPOSE OF SHARIA IS TO DESTROY KAFIR CULTURES.
Those lefties holding up a banner that reads:
DEFEND FREEDOM OF RELIGION
STOP THE ATTACKS ON ARABS + MUSLIMS
Is there any chance the lefties reading this could hold up a similar banner in front of muslims that reads:
DEFEND FREEDOM OF RELIGION
STOP THE ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS + JEWS
Or is it a one way street with you lot!
EW, calling for Freedom of Religion for people who are the most intolerant of every other religion is a joke.
They marched in Washington to defend the Nazis in the past. This is freedom of speech. We have to do a better job of explaining and debating the issue.
TOLERANCE MUST BE FROM ALL SIDES.
But…supremacists (like Moslems) NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR THEIR ATROCITIES!!!
The irony is pastor Jones is drawing attention to the death sentence passed on Iranian Pastor Nadharkani for no other reason than that he is a Christian yet these protesters protest for freedom of religion. Let the Muslims practice it them-selves first and they can ask for it. Not before.
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a BAMN!”
Go Terry, Go!
He’s one of the very few heroes in the war against the islamization of the West. We need thousands, if not millions more like him but that would mean men & women of courage, not cowards, and I fear the West is made up of mostly cowards. The muslims know this and are exploiting it to their benefit on a daily basis.
That baghead thinks people like Jones — and us — should be stopped from building a movement? Got news for her: you’re a day late and a dollar short, muslima. Get the bag back on and stop lying about that filthy ISLAMIC HONOR KILLING in California.
At first I thought that Terry Jones was just an instigator out to make a name for himself. However, after reading about him, I can’t honestly say that I blame him. In Middle Eastern countries, Muslims have shown for the most part that they are very intolerant towards Christians, Jews, and other minorities who do not fit into the Islamic “cookie cutter” mold. For the most part, Muslims have shown that they have little to no respect for any of the native populations of the Western nations that they migrate to. They murder and rape the native populations of Europe and that is heinous, unacceptable, and racist. They are forcing Western countries to adopt THEIR standards of living when they should be adopting OUR standards of living. As a Christian, they are annihilating my Christian brothers and sisters everywhere and that really hits home to me. Pastor Jones knows this as well. I now support him in what he is trying to accomplish. I hope he has hired himself some good, trustworthy bodyguards because he is going to need them in the days ahead.
I think these stupid protestors need to get their heads out of their butts and into some books. Do they know that Hitler collaborated with the Muslims in the Middle East to wipe out Jews? Would they have taken this position when the Communists were taking over what would become the U.S.S.R., where millions of innocent people were murdered? Who are they to decide what “freedom of speech” is? I can’t believe that people in my country, the USA, can be so stupid. As a young conservative with a college degree, this is proof that “education” in this country is not education at all. It’s political brainwashing with a sinister, deceitful twist. I hope that young people in this country will wake up to this idiocy being propagated in our colleges and universities and press the mental “delete” button! People my age are NOT taught HOW to think, they are taught WHAT to think! That is a recipe for disaster right there.
I hope that we are seeing a rise in European patriotism and nationalism in all of diverse Europe…the U.K, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Belgium, etc. I wish all of the European Defense Leagues well and hopefully, at least for France, Marine LePen will be the next Prime Minister.
Other Western countries, such as the USA, Canada, and Australia, need to spread the word about the dangers of Islam. I would not have a problem with the cult if it stayed in the Middle East, where it belongs. But don’t go bringing it to countries that value freedom, justice, and equality.
As for the USA, my country, I can only hope that we will have leaders here who will be brave enough to take a stand, like Tommy Robinson from the English Defense League.
As for Dearborn, Michigan, I can only hope that the spotlight is shined on that city and the Islamic evil there is exposed for all to see.
Agreed. I also hope that those fighting against Islam in Israel, sub-Saharan (Black) Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and elsewhere also stand strong and get aid from the West to drive the Arab Supremacist ideology called Islam from their areas and back to Hell, where it belongs.
good for pastor jones. what’s really sad is that i seriously doubt that history is taught in schools anymore.
That’s part of the plan dragonfFIREO1. Islam wants all reference of their barbarity, cruelty and lies through the centuries banished. They dont want children to know the truth, then our kids will be a walkover.
Thank GOD ALMIGHTY for Terry Jones and those who have the stones to say “HELL NO!!” to the Arselifters!! And thank GOD also that at the same time the WRATH OF GOD wipes the Arselifters off Planet Earth, the stupid dhimmi dips WILL BE wiped off the planet right along with them!!
He is a brave man. Need more like him!