International Burn-a-Quran Day

[snusgetter]

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... Dr. Jones is so popular that even his website is now inaccessible:
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Thankfully, Google Cache has a (somewhat) copy of the website.

Rackspace claims credit for shushing Koran-burning 'pastor'
• The Register
9th September 2010

Hosting company Rackspace shut down the Dove World Outreach Center's website last night, because it broke its acceptable use policy.

Pastor Terry Jones is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame thanks to plans for an International Burn the Koran Day to mark the anniversary of 9/11. Jones also plans to burn copies of the Talmud.

Jones's website had disappeared by this morning, UK time. Videos of Jones ranting are still available on YouTube - but haven't been updated this year.

Dan Goodgame, a spokesman for Rackspace, told the Reg: "We have over 100,000 customers and do not track what each of them has on their websites. But we do respond to complaints. We had a complaint that this site was promoting anti-Islamic hate speech, we investigated and agreed that it breached our acceptable use policy.

"We got in touch with them both by phone and email to warn them to remove the content, or find another hosting company. They did not remove the content so at midnight last night we shut them down."

Goodgame said the analogy was of someone shouting racist abuse in the street - they are free to do so. "But they may not come into my hardware store and carry on the abuse in front of my customers and friends - if they do so I have the right to ask them to leave."

The ranting, red-nosed pastor told CNN Rackspace's action was an attack on his freedom of speech but would not stop the event going ahead.

His tiny church has already lost half of its 50-strong congregation in response to his stunt, which is likely to be attended by more journalists than supporters.

The book bonfire has now been opposed by Sarah Palin, the Vatican, the German church which Jones founded and was dismissed from, Afghan commander General Petraeus and Hillary Clinton. ®

From Jones' Family Scrapbook

[tom502]

Shame that Rackspace has joined the side of Al-Qaida.

[sgreger1]

@ Snusgetter. Why would this guy burn Talmud's too? What an idiot. I think the dumbest religious related occurence I have noticed is when christians hate jews, and/or try to put down the old testament in place of the new testament. What do they not understand, their God/idol (whatever jesus is), WAS A JEW. If my God came down, or his son or uncle or cousin, and when asked what religion he was he replies "I'm Hindu", I would start following the hindu religion, not make a new one that states the god that came down was hindu but **** hindus because what he REALLY wanted was something else, he wanted us to worship him directly, even though he never directly said that. But yah even though god is a hindu let's still hate hindus. lol

[tom502]

Jesus may have been a racial Jew, and was brought up as a religious Jew, but he started his own path, and broke all the Jewish laws, and it was the Jews that wanted him crucified. So, he was a Jew in the sense that Karl Marx was a Jew. But he did not practice Judaism, and Jews today do not accept him.

[snusgetter]

Adding fuel to the flames?

@ Snusgetter. Why would this guy burn Talmud's too? ...

Just to prove he's an equal-opportunity hater??


Then again, there's this:

Questions for Deepak Chopra
- Interview - NYTimes.com
Published: September 3, 2010

You are pretty inventive in a chapter narrated by Eli, a Jewish scribe who is employed by Muhammad to follow him around and write down his every observation.
Medina had a Jewish population. The Jews were the ones who knew how to read and write. The Arabs, including the Prophet, were mostly illiterate. A writer of historical fiction has poetic license.

"Do you think it is possible that the Koran was actually written by Jews?
How come there are so many references to Moses and the prophets in the Koran? I would not be surprised if Jewish scribes inserted a lot of that."

[raptor]

Shame that Rackspace has joined the side of Al-Qaida.

LOL ok

You can stop equating Muslims to al Qaeda now please.

[tom502]

That doesn't make sense to me. There is debate if Muhammed was illterate, like somehow that makes him more holy?? But the story of Islam, is a lot like the story of Mormonism. The Bible is corrupted, and mistranslated, so God reveals the full corrected version of his message anew. This is the idea behind the Quran, and the BoM. And so, Muhammed knew the Bible, at least somewhat, to know to use the names of Biblical characters since this is the revised new Bible. Also, the Quran was written in little bit and pieces(Muhammed went into a cave, and an angel told him, and then he'd come out and repeat what he was told, kinda like Joseph Smith looking in his hat), it was then after many years, all these scraps of message, was then organized and put in some order, it was over 20 yrs that the Koran took to be culminated and organized.

[raptor]

The Bible too was pieced together by the clergy and former gnostic books were taken out over the early centuries.

But then again, I don't know what point you're trying to make, unless you're trying to prove Islam is illegitimate for some reason. Maybe to give you peace of mind for hatin' on Muslims?

[sgreger1]

All religions are guilty of the same thing. They all build on ideas and gods of earlier religions, they all have tried to takeover governments, they have all led to war, and they have all devided the people throughout the ages.

Tom is right, Muslims are the mormons of the middle east. Nothing wrong with that. Really we should just leave these people alone. A) They want to be left alone B) We gain nothing by bothering them. We should stop meddling in their affairs, and continue our ongoing policy of welcoming people from any religion to come to this country as long as they go through the proper channels.

[tom502]

I'm actually an ex-Muslim. Though I did not stay a Muslim for long. I did study it, and attend Masjid. It was when I found this site, www.submission.org that showed me how Islam as practiced popularly, is corrupted extremist Muhammed worship. Today's popular Isam, is anti-Islamic. It's a crazed theocratic death cult, based on the supposed sayings and actions of the Sunna and haditha, as well as desired implementation of the sharia. I don't hate Muslims, I do hate the perverted extremism that today is popular Islam, and I feel sad for the people brainwashed into it, as well as the PC apologists who only see the west as evil, and equate this small group wanting to burn some Qurans, with millions of crazed muslims who behead kill and rape, for drawing a cartoon of Muhammed.

[sgreger1]

[tom502]

I'm at work and whatever that is, doesn't show.

[shikitohno]

tom, if you don't hate Muslims, how come the slightest mention of them draws a comparison to al-Qaeda from you? And where are the crazed Muslims you speak of? They're certainly not here in the US. I have to go through a couple of heavily Muslim neighbourhoods every day and I haven't seen any riots. You see the same thing you're fretting over happen in Christian nations in Africa all the time. It's not just Islam tom, it's poverty. Hell, we do it here for less. Sports riots anyone?

If you criticise Islam for haditha, you need to call out Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and a ton of others tom. Your claim that having interpretation of scripture by religious folks somehow makes it a violent death cult, and not one of your approved "personal faiths," is laughable in both it's foolishness and how easily it is dismissed.

[jamesstew]

I'm actually an ex-Muslim. Though I did not stay a Muslim for long. I did study it, and attend Masjid. It was when I found this site, www.submission.org that showed me how Islam as practiced popularly, is corrupted extremist Muhammed worship. Today's popular Isam, is anti-Islamic. It's a crazed theocratic death cult, based on the supposed sayings and actions of the Sunna and haditha, as well as desired implementation of the sharia. I don't hate Muslims, I do hate the perverted extremism that today is popular Islam, and I feel sad for the people brainwashed into it, as well as the PC apologists who only see the west as evil, and equate this small group wanting to burn some Qurans, with millions of crazed muslims who behead kill and rape, for drawing a cartoon of Muhammed.

Jesuchristo Tom, is there a faith you haven't tried out yet?

[raptor]

But the perverted extremism isn't popular. The vast majority of Muslims are against it, but cannot do anything about them.