Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Confronting Hate

According to an announcement on the Military Religious Freedom Foundation website:
"After being contacted by scores of our active duty military clients asking us to do something in response to Terry Jones’ planned “Burn A Koran Day,” MRFF has decided that the most appropriate response would not be to try to stop Jones, but to donate to the Afghan National Army, as a gesture of good will and a statement of opposition to this entirely un-American act of religious bigotry, a new Qur’an for each one destroyed by Jones and his followers. "
Meanwhile, as Pastor Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center before the press once again today stated, "We are not convinced that backing down is the right thing," an Imam from a local Florida Muslim group present, personally approached and urged him to do that very thing.

"I strongly believe at the end of the day he will make the right step and call off the event," said Muhammad Musri, head of the Islamic Society for Central Florida.

And in Washington, D.C., the Council on American-Islamic Relations has said that it will announce on Thursday an initiative, called "Learn, Don't Burn" [Not this one] that will distribute 200,000 Koran texts to replace the 200 copies that the Florida church plans to burn.

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