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'Burn the Quran Day' protest: Terry Jones effigy set on fire in Afghanistan

Lorne Gunter: The Koran-burning pastor is a moron, but not a murderer
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Terry Jones

Okay, let’s get all the appropriate declarations out of the way first: Terry Jones is, as one of my colleagues on the National Post’s editorial board put it so eloquently this weekend, a “moron.” Jones is the pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center of Gainesville, Fla. He is also a bad man for burning a Koran last month, for posting a video of his deliberately provocative act on the Internet and for threatening to put Islam on trial and – if the faith is found guilty – who knows, perhaps next burning an effigy of the prophet Muhammad.

Jones is also a self-aggrandizing, self-delusional jackass, an attention hound and a liar. He first grabbed worldwide attention last fall when he threatened to burn a Koran on the anniversary of 9/11. He’s a liar, because after worldwide pressure forced him to back down then, he promised never again to attempt the immolation of a Muslim holy book. But last month he did burn one after having alerted only media in the Muslim world.

Jones is barely a pastor, too. His church has perhaps 70 congregants, many of whom are apparently related to one another. He and his followers remind me of nothing more than the Westboro Baptist church, another collection of 70 or so hateful inbreds, whose opposition to homosexuality is so severe they have taken to shouting the most vile insults at U.S. soldiers’ funerals on the pretext that the U.S. military allows gays and lesbians in its ranks.

What Terry Jones is not – for all his sins – is a murderer. That designation belongs to the Muslim extremists who, in retaliation for his Koran-burning stunt – have rioted for three days in Afghanistan and killed a total of 24 people so far, including seven international staff of the UN in Mazar-i-Sharif in the northern part of the country.

Jones may have conceived that a deadly reaction would occur in the Muslim world when he fired up the grill and tossed a Koran on it. He may even have desired it. And for that and for his narcissistic incitements now and in the past, no doubt the God he purports to represent will consign Jones to hell when his time comes.

But there has been a tendency in the West to blame Jones for the deaths that have occurred since news of his crass act got out. Those murders, though, hang solely on those who committed them. The deaths say as much about the state of Islam in the developing world and about the development of Afghanistan as they do about Jones and his vainglorious attention seeking.

I can’t imagine the Christian world erupting in violent protest at the burning of a Bible. After all, as holy as we Christians may believe the words inside to be, an individual Bible is just a book. And we in the West got over such purely symbolic provocations around five centuries ago.

After 9/11, my colleague, Jonathan Kay, and I wrote a series of editorials for the Post arguing that what the Muslim world needed most was a Reformation in which verbal attacks on Muhammad and the faith were not taken as direct insults and defilements. An intellectual separation of church and state would be a good idea, too. Such enlightenment transformations had, over time, ended the crusades and most of the big religious wars among Christians and between Christianity and other faiths.

But because much of Islam has not gone through a similar evolution, the publication of Danish cartoons of Muhammad or false reports of a Koran flushing at Guantanamo Bay detention camp (both in 2005) or last month’s Koran burning by Terry Jones set off deadly spasms of protest in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia and elsewhere.

Those who take these acts so personally that they storm churches, banks, shops and even UN offices, destroy property and murder those inside are the responsible for the death and carnage they leave behind.

Jones should be ignored. And, for the most part, he was in his latest efforts to enrage. What publicity he received he prompted on his own by making direct contact with media in the Muslim world. Western media ignored him until after he had committed his heinous act and ignited the spark that led to last Friday’s murderous rampage in a UN compound, as well as the riots that have followed in Kandahar.

Politicians should denounce him, and editors and producers should deprive him of the oxygen (media coverage) that stokes his demented brain. But those who suggest Jones is a bigger villain than the rioters who have taken lives over a book burning – any book burning – are looking at this issue through the wrong end of the telescope.

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While the US government is responable for the creation of Al Qaida, you can see how Obama is now relating to the mainstream media that Al Qaida will kill more americans due to the burning of the Qur'an. Fathers Canada does condone violence of any type, or the spreading of hate crimes. But it is plain to see the so called US Government has created far too many wars in this world for political reasons and they, should be held accountable for those wars in which they the US government have invaded others countries under false pretenses, while claiming Al qaida is the enemy. When they the US government and the CIA created Al Qaida, with funding and training to commit terrorism, while using Al Qaida for their own political gains.

The burning of a Qur'an by a small American church should not be tolerated, and those Afghan's  murdering trash who kill those UN personnel based on their Mulsum religion, should also be arrested and put on trial, as should be
Rev Terry Jones.

This dispicable murders of UN workers and others they Afgans feel is justify, because their so called Holy book the Qur'an was burned goes to show that violence and the killing of people isn't a big deal to them..This will be used as an excuse to bring more violence and wars to the forefront. So now A Basic Understanding of the US Government and their freinds called Al Qaida.

Former CIA officer blows lid off libya fraud live on CNN

The American Dream | We never should have gotten involved in the civil war in Libya. It was none of our business.



Al Qaeda’s Dark Secret Exposed
You Tube, April 1, 2011 Evidence proves al Qaeda is Western manufactured.

In a special video address, Alex Jones terms the al Qaeda intelligence operation a ‘Swiss army knife’ for destabilization. Simply put, it is a tool to foment crisis that allows the globalists to offer up a solution in variable contexts. Today, ‘freelancers‘ in Libya; yesterday, terrorists in the ‘War on Terror.’ Before that, allies against Serbia; in the 80s, Freedom Fighters. The shadowy enemy supposedly run by Osama bin Laden and top jihadists like Anwar al-Awlaki is really an extension of U.S. foreign policy and the Pentagon. Al Qaeda shifts across the geopolitical chessboard at the will of its masters in the allied-international intelligence ring. It is perhaps government’s greatest hoax… but the tactic is one of the oldest tricks in the book for any power-seeking State.

For the average person who has lived through the phony ‘War on Terror’, a post-9/11 age of fear that has swirled around the persona of bin Laden, it may be quite confusing to now read headlines like Libya: the West and al-Qaeda on the same side. Indeed, the rebel forces trying to topple Gaddafi admittedly include more than 1,000 al Qaeda soldiers while enjoying total backing– weapons, planes, funding and forces– from the U.S., Britain, NATO and other allies. The CIA and British SAS forces that are now “officially” entering Libya as ground support were covertly operating at least a month ago.

Alex expanded on his Russia Today rant where he covered this topic.



However, the Pentagon-run al Qaeda hoax has deeper history than can be covered in just a few minutes of airtime.


CRIMESTOP: CREATE THE ENEMY, FOOL THE PUBLIC

Reagan meets with Taliban, herads them as freedom fighters, likened unto America's Founding Fathers

As we cover some of the highlights of al Qaeda’s duplicitous history, consider these conflicting statements from two U.S. Presidents about the Taliban / al Qaeda (albeit from different points in time):

“They hate our freedoms — our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.”
George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, September 20, 2001

“These (Taliban) gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s Founding Fathers.”
Ronald Wilson Reagan in 1985 while introducing the Mujahideen leaders to media on the White House lawn.

1984: The Art of DoublethinkThe answer to the contradiction is learning to embrace the deception as truth, whenever the State says to do so, just as Winston Smith finally “learns” in 1984– when he is compelled to find that 2+2=5. His torturer, O’Brien, tells himYou are a slow learner, Winston.’

‘How can I help it?’ [Winston] blubbered. ‘How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.’

‘Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.’  

 

Karl Rove, a key architect of the Bush Administration, known glowingly as “Bush’s Brain”, chastised reporters in 2002 who tried to appeal to the “reality-based community” in the face of a President who, according to Ron Suskind of the NY Times expressed to high level members of Congress, aides and the like that he didn’t need the facts:

The aide [Rove] said that guys like me were ”in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who ”believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. [Rove] cut me off. ”That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. ”We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

Unbeknownst to the media at that time, Rove was operating on behalf of a government that was not only arrogant, but had taken a page directly out of George Orwell’s 1984. America’s enemy Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda were remarkably like Emmanuel Goldstein, arch-villain of Oceania in 1984. Goldstein [or bin Laden] was “commander of a vast shadowy army, an underground network of conspirators dedicated to the overthrow of the State.” An enemy that couldn’t be found, killed or slowed from influencing new conspirators at every turn. “Somewhere or other,” Orwell wrote, “he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies.”

“Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party — an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself, might be taken in by it… Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically. He was an object of hatred more constant than either Eurasia or Eastasia, since when Oceania was at war with one of these Powers it was generally at peace with the other. But what was strange was that although Goldstein was hated and despised by everybody… his influence never seemed to grow less.”

In 1984, it was rumored that Goldstein, whereabouts unknown, might even be taking refuge somewhere within their own superstate itself; consequently, “a day never passed when spies and saboteurs acting under his directions were not unmasked by the Thought Police.” In contemporary America, the Department of Homeland Security now takes that possibility as its directive, screening and searching ordinary people everywhere in search of shadowy al Qaeda or “homegrown terrorists.” Just as in 1984, children were trained to be spies to rat out suspicious adults.

Is Bin Laden Dead?Behind the hoax contrived to control party members and maintain power, Winston’s torturer and member of the inner-party, O’Brien, confessed that he had personally taken part in writing Goldstein’s outlawed book– a lie to serve the State. It was necessary for the controlling party to create a living myth that portrayed Goldstein as a classic, evasive “external enemy“. The utility of the external enemy has been noted by many, including the Club of Rome, who wrote in 1991 that “Humans only truly unite when faced with a powerful external enemy…At this time a new enemy must be found, one either real or invented for the purpose.” Henry Kissinger likewise quipped at Bilderberg in 1991 that the United Nations might seize upon an “outside threat from beyond” to unite the peoples of the world.

Thus, the steady diet of propaganda, including the two-minutes hate that daily featured new installments of Goldstein’s crimes and heresies. In 1984, Goldstein was:

“almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared. The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor.”

O’Brien proclaimed during Winston’s torturous re-education sessions that: “Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever. Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon and yet they will always survive.” Bin Laden has been patently the same archetypal enemy– despite being wanted dead or alive (Bush, Sept. 18, 2001), armies can’t find him [TIME 2002] after a decade.

Admittedly fake bin Laden videos

Admittedly fake videos with bad look-alikes and audio recordings supposedly sent by bin Laden surfaced routinely just before elections (Tom Ridge later admitted that terror threats were elevated to help Bush’s re-election bid) or when the American people needed a reminder of the threat of terror. Prior to the admissions, analysts correctly suspected that al Qaeda video logos matched the signature of the CIA-linked Intel Center, revealing an unholy connection at the source of the video-taped threats. Despite the fact that bin Laden had reportedly died and had been in the hospital on kidney dialysis in 2001, Osama bin Laden remained a nearly-omnipotent villain in Bush Administration communiques. His survival as the external enemy, like Goldstein, was almost guaranteed because it empowered the State’s official fairytale and enabled action on wide-ranging controversial policies with little scrutiny. Ultimately, in 1984, Goldstein is of no material relevance; his real purpose is to induce submission to the party-led Oligarchical Collectivist State.


DOUBLETHINK: AL QAEDA THE ALLY, AL QAEDA THE ENEMY

Al Qaeda Hoax: Pentagon-staged terrorThe real Osama bin Laden is a Western-trained CIA asset with the declassified code-name “Tim Osman.” He was chosen to lead the Mujahideen / Taliban in Afghanistan, in part, because his wealthy family has been a long-term business partner to key families in the West, including the Bush family (Carlyle Group). In fact, George H. W. Bush, the father, had been meeting with one of Osama bin Laden’s brothers on the morning of 9/11. The real Mujahideen has been used for a variety of Western-backed political purposes, namely upheaval and regional-destabilization.

Back in 1979, al Qaeda, in the form of the Mujahideen / Taliban, were America’s secret weapon in Operation Cyclone. It was geopolitical strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski, then National Security Advisor under Carter, who schemed to draw the Soviet Union into a trap that might bleed them dry. [Declassified documents authorizing action A / B]

Brzezinski gave an interview to France’s Le Nouvel Observateur in 1998, unapologetic about their covert aid the Mujahadeen six months before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Here is a segment of that interview:

Q: You don’t regret anything today?
Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic [integrisme], having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
Brzezinski: Nonsense!



During the Reagan years, they were Freedom Fighters, public heroes heralding the possibility for democracy to spread overseas in resistance to Communism. Reagan even dedicated the launch of the space shuttle Columbia to the Afghans, in the name of the ‘highest aspirations of freedom.’ In 1985, Ronald Reagan said the men in the Taliban’s ranks were “the moral equivalents of America’s Founding Fathers.” These men were supported openly for a decade as the Soviets met ‘their Vietnam’ in Afghanistan.



As Kurt Nimmo writes:

Osama bin Laden ran MAK (Maktab al-Khidamat), an organization created by Pakistan’s ISI at the behest of the CIA. It funneled money, weapons, and internationally recruited fighters into the war created in part by Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Osama was closely tied to the Afghan warlord and ISI stooge Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who ran drugs for the CIA. In the 1980s, emissaries from the United States met with Osama. The CIA paid Osama to train the militant group Abu Sayyaf and others at his CIA-built camps in Afghanistan. In New York, Osama’s MAK operated the CIA-connected al-Kifah Refugee Center that was involved in the 1993 WTC bombing. The U.S. government would later call the al-Kifah charity the “precursor organization to al-Qaeda.”

The 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center was exposed as another cruel hoax. In 1993, the F.B.I. became, at best, dangerous enablers as they undertook a “sting” operation to allegedly prove the culpability of the suspects. Even Wikipedia admits that harmless powder was swapped with real bomb material. F.B.I. informant Emad Salem became alarmed at the introduction of real explosives and recorded his conversations with the F.B.I. proving they enabled and allowed the bombing to go forward that killed 4 people.

Simultaneously, by the late 80s and early 90s, al-Qaeda, under U.S. orders, “migrated to Bosnia, hoping to assist their Islamic brethren in a struggle against Serbian [and for a time] Croatian forces.” Al Qaeda was still a U.S. and Saudi-backed ally circa 1999 that backed the Albanian KLA in terrorist acts in the war-torn Yugoslavian region, even up to the time of NATO’s bombings, despite growing concerns about terrorism, including the impact of the 1993 WTC bombing. See also: Mega Oil and Mujahidin from the Balkans to the Caucasus



Click for larger image: Enron hired CIA employees to work its pipeline scheme with the Taliban

 

With Serbia / former Yugoslavia still fresh in the public mind but the Pentagon-al Qaeda connection largely in the shadows, the USS Cole was bombed in October 2000 in a Yemeni port. The act of terror against the United States would be blamed on Osama bin Laden, rogue heir to the wealthy family known for their business with big Western players (like the Carlyle Group, etc.).

The 9/11 attacks hit. It was instantly blamed on Osama bin Laden. Endless contradictions to the official government account emerged over the coming hours, days, weeks and years for now almost a decade, without any sign of accountability or truth in the officialdom anywhere in sight. In addition to gross contradictions to the laws of physics in the collapses of WTC towers 1, 2 and 7, details came forward about how the accused hijackers were trained at U.S. bases, lived with FBI informants, were given VISAS and let past borders despite being on the watchlists; the hijackers were identified by U.S. intelligence agencies [Able Danger, et. al.], but their warnings were ignored (and much, much more: prior knowledge, warnings, drills, etc., etc., etc.).

While rallying the public behind a war in Afghanistan, and soon in Iraq as well, the Bush Administration clandestinely let members of the bin Laden family quietly fly out of the United States, even while all other flights were grounded. It would be revealed in articles about the “Airlift of Evil,” that U.S. forces also covertly exported Taliban forces from Afghanistan to Pakistan; meanwhile, U.S. soldiers where geared up to search in caves and rugged terrain for a shadowy enemy in the “graveyard of empires“; as of 2011, the deadline for leaving Afghanistan continues to roll back.

As noted earlier, embarrassing leaks emerged casting doubt on the validity of al Qaeda’s jihad against America, as the Bush Administration continued to hype the threat of terror without pause. Controversial measures, including the Constitution-shredding Patriot Act, warrantless-wiretaps of U.S. citizens, torture (Obama refused to investigate the crimes of the Bush Admin.) and indefinite detention and other devastating attacks on the “hated freedoms” of Americans continued seamlessly under Barack Obama.

Terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki dined with Pentagon months after 9/11Nearly every major terror plot uncovered domestically has, in fact, turned out to be a contrivance by the FBI where it sets-up a sting and encourages its patsies to carry out an attack. The “close calls” on American soil since 9/11 have largely been connected to Anwar al-Awlaki, who it was revealed, dined with Pentagon brass in the months after 9/11. The Underwear Bomber who tried to blow-up a Detroit-bound plane was given VISA clearance by the State Dept. despite being on the watchlist; witnesses Kurt & Lori Haskell watched Abdulmutallab being helped on the plane by a “sharp-dressed man” who was most likely an intelligence agent. They also witnessed other suspect/patsies who were never mentioned in the mainstream media. The key questions their verified account raises may never be addressed, as the accused Abdulmutallab is attempting to represent himself in court. Hoaxes and inconsistencies have been raised around the cases of the Foot Hood shooter, the Times Square bomber and many, many others. Even Geraldo Rivera of Fox News has noted that the FBI’s pattern of sting operations are ‘bogus’.

Homeland Security took on a greater role, imposing absurd and unpopular TSA body scanners and groping pat-downs on travelers. DHS has further rolled out checkpoints [in the name of catching al Qaeda, of course], mobile x-ray vans on public streets & highways (including pedestrians), on trains, buses and boats, as well as at sport stadiums, hotels and shopping malls and beyond.

In 2011, George Orwell’s “War is Peace” mantra is upgraded once again, as the Nobel Peace Prize winner President Obama expands war into Libya under the Orwellian-guise of a “humanitarian crisis,” imposing a no-fly zone (which immediately gave way to full scale bombings and then ground forces). Americans, Westerners and the world at-large must scratch their heads once again as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan not only continue, but the West finds an unlikely ally against Col. Gaddafi in rebels made up of al Qaeda forces. The Lie has not stopped, as Western intelligence continues to wield one of its most powerful client-weapons– the al Qaeda hoax, invariably friend or foe, as the situation demands. In classic doublethink, the same week the public learns its anti-Gaddafi allies include al Qaeda, over-the-top, grandiose threats are made by mail claiming that al Qaeda has some 160 nuclear bombs buried at strategic locations across the United States; if there’s any truth at all to the claim, you can be certain the nuclear material was delivered via Western intelligence.


FURTHER RESEARCH:

FULL TEXT: George Orwell’s 1984 & Animal Farm (html and pdf) or by chapter

Libyan Rebel Leader Admits Links To “Al Qaeda” Fighters

Libyan Rebel Leader Admits Connection to CIA al-Qaeda Asset in Iraq

9/11 Mastermind Invited to Pentagon

Al Qaeda Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11

Contrived Propaganda Tapes Reveal War On Terror Fraud

Al-Qaeda Is A Front Group For The US Military-Industrial Complex

Bin Laden is wanted: dead or alive, says Bush

TIME: Why Can’t We Find Bin Laden?

Al-Zarqawi Video Is A Pentagon Propaganda Psy-Op

11 Reasons Why The Threat From Al-Qaeda is Not Real

Who is behind “Al Qaeda in Iraq”? Pentagon acknowledges fabricating a “Zarqawi Legend”

Dining with the enemy: Al Qaeda leader linked to 9/11 hijackers ‘was invited to the Pentagon for lunch after attacks’

State Department Admits: Detroit Christmas Bomber Was Deliberately Allowed to Keep US Entry Visa, Board His Flight

Everything About Nidal Malik Hasan Screams “Patsy”

Bombshell Eyewitness Revelations: Confirmed FBI Cover-Up Of Flight 253 Attack

Geraldo Schools O’Reilly: Recent Domestic Terror Plots ‘Bogus’

1993 World Trade Center Bombing: Audio Recording Proves FBI Involvement

U.S. supported al-Qaeda cells during Balkan Wars

The KLA – terrorists or freedom fighters?

Mega Oil and mujahidin from the Balkans to the Caucasus

Club of Rome: The First Global Revolution: “Humans only truly unite when faced with a powerful external enemy…At this time a new enemy must be found, one either real or invented for the purpose…”

Boy Scouts Train to Become Homeland Gestapo

‘Feds radiating Americans’? Mobile X-ray vans hit US streets

Documents Reveal TSA Research Proposal To Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers

Next step for tight security could be trains, boats, metro

Dodd ridicules ‘Genius’ in White House Who Won’t Investigate Bush

Threats claim nuclear bombs hidden all over U.S.

 

 

RELATED: Al-Qaeda 100% Pentagon Run

If America could only wake up and abolish the CIA. They are nothing but a criminal organization which gets Government money illegally. Meanwhile Obama runnnig off at the mouth about Al Qaida is to blame.

 
Obama: Quran Burning Helps Al-CIA-Qaeda

The al Qaeda intelligence operation a 'swiss army knife' for destabilization. Simply put, it is a tool to foment crisis that allows the globalists to offer up a solution.The shadowy enemy supposedly run by Osama bin Laden and top jihadists like Anwar al-Awlaki is really run out of U.S. foreign policy and the Pentagon. It is perhaps government's greatest hoax... and one of the oldest tricks in the book. For the average person who has lived through the phony 'War on Terror', a post-9/11 age of fear that has swirled around the persona of bin Laden, it may be quite confusing to now read headlines like Libya: the West and al-Qaeda on the same side. Indeed the rebel forces trying to topple Gaddafi admittedly include thousands of al Qaeda forces while enjoying total backing-- weapons, planes, funding and forces-- from the U.S., Britain, NATO and other allies.

Al Qaeda is The Trojan Horse In The War on Terror

- Nearly every war in the 20th century was the product of false beliefs, human error, government-media deception, and popular myths. Objective truth and human reason were replaced with systematic propaganda and government dogma


 

UPDATED - Florida pastor says he will put Mohammed ‘on trial’

Mail Online
April 4, 2011

Despite clear evidence that his actions have led to multiple murders and widespread violence in the Middle East, controversial Florida pastor Terry Jones has vowed to step up his provocative campaign against Islam.

The radical pastor said that he was considering putting Islamic prophet Mohammed ‘on trial’ for his next ‘day of judgement’ publicity stunt.

His last, in which he oversaw the burning of a copy of the Koran after a six-hour mock trial, has been directly responsible for a wave of violence that began last night and has left 30 people dead and more than 150 injured.





Afghans angry at Qur'an burning Murder UN workers

How Al Qaida is used to create uprisings, and further the US Government Wars in the World

At least 11 people were killed -- including seven United Nations workers -- after protesters angry about the burning of a Qur'an by a small American church attacked a UN compound in northern Afghanistan. The demonstration Friday in Mazar-i-Sharif began peacefully but turned violent after some members of the crowd took weapons off the UN compound's guards and began shooting, then entered the buildings and lit fires. Protesters were angry that a small church in Florida burned a copy of the Qur'an last month. The pastor of the church, Rev. Terry Jones, had threatened to do so last year but backed down after sparking outrage among millions of Muslims around the world. Dan McNorton, a spokesperson for the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, said the seven foreigners killed in the attack included four foreign security guards. On Sunday, Afghans took to the streets for a third straight day, in Jalalabad and Kandahar, to protest last month's torching of a copy of the Koran by followers of Terry Jones, a Gainesville, Fla.-based pastor. Officials in Kandahar reported at least two more deaths and dozens of injuries; the Jalalabad protest, though angry and impassioned, was largely peaceful.

The latest fatalities brought the three-day death toll to 22: seven U.N. workers and four demonstrators killed on Friday when rioters stormed their compound in Mazar-e-Sharif after mosque preachers inveighed against the Koran burning, and at least nine people killed in daylong rioting Saturday in Kandahar, the spiritual home of the Taliban movement. The protests, which have touched virtually every major Afghan city, not only showed the hair-trigger sensibilities associated with any insult to Islam in this deeply conservative society but also illustrated the gulf between Western and Afghan precepts regarding free speech and civil liberties. Many Afghans, including some sophisticated urban dwellers, were baffled by the notion that what they considered an overt act of blasphemy could be considered a permissible expression of political opinion.

Here is a prime example here to show how violence is used by Afghans for justifcation....."How can you do something that you know is going to cause violence and not be held accountable?" said Sayeed Humayoun, a Kabul teacher. "Even my littlest pupils know better than this."...

What we all should find unexecptable by what Sayeed Humayoun says, is that killing of UN workers for the burning of the Qur'an by Rev Jones does not justify those murders. It is no different then sucide bombers killing people for their cause, which only shows how he and those Afgans support murdering innocent people, after all, how can you do something by attacking and killing UN workers that you know is going to cause more violence and repisals on those criminal Afgans who murdered the UN workers and others

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said a 27-year-old UN worker from his country named Joakim Dungel died. Norway's defence ministry identified another victim as Lt. Col Siri Skare, a 53-year-old female pilot. The UN guards were from Nepal, according to Gen. Daud Daud, the commander of Afghan National Police in a number of northern provinces. The seventh foreigner killed was Romanian, a Western official told The Associated Press. Afghan investigators claimed that insurgents may have filtered into the crowd. Police arrested more than 20 people -- including the person they believe orchestrated the attack. Deputy provincial police chief Rawof Taj said the suspected leader is a militant from Kapisa province, 400 kilometres southeast of Mazar-i-Sharif.

In Nairobi, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, called the attack "cowardly" and said it "cannot be justified under any circumstances."

Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a statement late Friday describing the killings as an "inhumane act" that was "against the values of Islam and Afghans." While Scores of people have gathered in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Monday to denounce a U.S. church's plan to burn the Islamic holy book the Quran. The crowd in Kabul, numbering as many as 500, chanted "Long live Islam" and "Death to America" as they listened to fiery speeches from members of parliament, provincial council deputies, and Islamic clerics who criticised the US and demanded the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country. Pastor Terry Jones, of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, a non-denominational Christian church, said he planned to burn the Quran on, 11 September, to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Quran Burning and Rev Terry Jones

Afghan authorities suspect insurgents melded into the mob and they announced the arrest of more than 20 people, including a militant they suspect was the ringleader of the assault. The suspect was an insurgent from Kapisa province, a hotbed of militancy about 400 kilometres southeast of the city, said Rawof Taj, deputy provincial police chief. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid sent a text message to the AP on Saturday denying that the insurgency was responsible for killing the U.N. workers.



Florida Pastor Says He's Not Responsible for Protest Against his Koran Burning That Left 11 Dead, Including U.N. Staffers, in Afghanistan




Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who oversaw the burning of a Koran last month, said he did not feel responsible for the violent protest at a United Nations compound in Afghanistan today that left at least 11 dead. Instead, he said the violence proved his point. Read the Full Transcript of "Nightline's" Interview with Terry Jones

"We wanted to raise awareness of this dangerous religion and dangerous element," Jones said. "I think [today's attack] proves that there is a radical element of Islam." As for the 11 dead, which included seven U.N. staffers and guards, Jones told "Nightline" anchor Bill Weir, "We do not feel responsible, no." The deaths followed a protest march in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif today against the Koran burning. Jones supervised while another pastor, Wayne Sapp, soaked the Koran in kerosene and burned it.

"We decided to put the Koran on trail," he told Weir. "I was the judge but I did not determine the verdict. I was just a type of referee so that people got their time to defend or condemn the Koran." Jones said that a "jury" of people from all over Florida debated the radicalism of Islam, and the "Koran was found guilty." "If the Koran was found guilty then there were four forms of punishment: burning, shredding, grounding, a firing squad," he said. "The one that the people chose was burning. That is why the Koran was burned after it was found guilty." Police told ABC News the protest in Afghanistan started peacefully but took a violent turn after a radical leader told those gathered that multiple Korans had been burned. People angrily marched on the nearby U.N. compound, despite police who fired AK-47s into the air in hopes of subduing them.

Police eventually turned their weapons on the protesters, killing at least four, police said, before they were overtaken and had their guns stolen. Using the police weapons, the protestors killed four U.N. guards from Nepal and then three foreign workers in the U.N. building -- a Norwegian, a Romanian and a Swede. An Afghan official said one man has been arrested for allegedly masterminding the attack along with 19 others, according to a report by the Associated Press. Despite an onslaught of attention Jones got when he initially made his threat to burn the Muslim holy book in September 2010 -- including a personal plea from President Barack Obama -- the actual burning of the Koran last month went relatively unnoticed in western media.

President Obama condemned the attack "in the strongest possible terms" in a statement. "The brave men and women of the United Nations, including the Afghan staff, undertake their work in support of the Afghan people," Obama said. "Their work is essential to building a stronger Afghanistan for the benefit of all its citizens. We stress the importance of calm and urge all parties to reject violence and resolve differences through dialogue." U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon joined Obama in his condemnation of the attack today. "This was an outrageous and cowardly attack against U.N. staff, which cannot be justified under any circumstances and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms," Ki-moon said from Kenya, where the U.N said he is making an official visit.Jones initially cancelled his plans for the book burning on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. The stunt, according to Jones, was a protest for the Muslim-backed community center that was to be built near the site of the September 11 attacks in New York.

During that initial incident, Gainesville's mayor told reporters Jones does not speak for the community.



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