You know, some days I come to these pixels and marvel at the stupidity of politicians. For the last few weeks, I have listened to the idiocracy of Rep Peter King, Rudy Guliani, Rep Steve King, et al. whine about a mosque near Ground Zero. Well, I have an idea. Let's bring everyone together! How you ask? Follow me over an imaginary jump.
Enter the Dove World Church. Who are they and what do they have to do with anything, you say? Well...
On September 11, 2010, the extremist evangelical Dove World Church — whose pastor, Terry Jones, has written a book called "Islam Is Of The Devil" — plans to host "International Burn A Quran Day," when it will burn Muslims’ sacred text and encourage others across the world to do so as well. Churchmember Wayne Sapp has even posted an instructional video that explains how and why to burn the Islamic text.
Think Progress
Lord Have Mercy!
Was that not enough for you? Ok, you can watch this then.
SANCHEZ: Do you know how many Muslims there are in the world?
JONES: I think there are 1.5 billion.
SANCHEZ: Yeah. I ask you that because that’s a very big number. Why would you want to do this to 1.5 billion people by burning their most sacred book? That’s crazy.
JONES: Well, for one thing, to us, the book is not sacred.
SANCHEZ: But it is to them, it’s sacred to them. [...]
JONES: What we’re also doing by the burning of the Quran on 9/11 is we’re saying stop. Stop to Islam. Stop to Islamic law. Stop to brutality. We have nothing against Muslims, they are welcome in our country. [...]
SANCHEZ: How would you feel if a Muslim said to you, what you just said to them? I have no problem with you Mr. Christian, you’re welcome in my country, but I’m burning your Bible.
JONES: I would not like it. But it’s our right. We live in America!
Uh huh. Sometimes there are no words.