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New York: Christian
evangelical churches in the United States blasted a Florida church's
plans to burn copies of the Muslim holy book on the anniversary of
the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida had called
for repeating its "Everybody Burn Quran Day" it celebrates "in
remembrance of the fallen victims of 9/11 and to stand against the
evil of Islam."
"Dove World Outreach Center, shame on you,"
responded Angel Nuņez, vice president of the National Hispanic
Christian Leadership Conference, according to Christianity Today, an
Evangelical Christian magazine.
"If I want to win a Muslim to Christ, I surely won't do it by
burning the Qur'an in public and provoking them to hate us more,"
said Nuņez. "The greatest weapon a Christian has is godly love."
The National Association for Evangelicals (NAE) also reacted in
a statement urging the Dove World Outreach Center to cancel its planned
event to burn the Quran.
"The plans recently announced by a Florida group to burn copies of
the Quran on September 11 show disrespect for our Muslim neighbors
and would exacerbate tensions between Christians and Muslims
throughout the world. The NAE urges the cancellation of the
burning," the NAE said.
The Florida church's pastor Terry Jones told CNN earlier this week
that "Islam is of the devil, that it's causing billions of people to
go to hell, it is a deceptive religion, it is a violent religion and
that is proven many, many times."
Jones wrote a book titled "Islam is of the Devil," and the church
sells coffee mugs and shirts featuring the phrase.
The church launched a YouTube channel to diffuse its messages.
"I mean ask yourself, have you ever really seen a really happy
Muslim? As they're on the way to Mecca? As they gather together in
the mosque on the floor? Does it look like a real religion of joy?"
Jones asks in one of his YouTube posts.
"No, to me it looks like a religion of the devil."
NAE President Leith Anderson said, "It sounds like the proposed
Quran burning is rooted in revenge. Yet the Bible says that
Christians should 'make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong,
but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else' (1
Thessalonians 5:15)."
"We have to recognize that fighting fire with fire only builds a
bigger fire," said Joel Hunter, Senior Pastor of Northland, A Church
Distributed, in Orlando, Fla., and member of the NAE Board of
Directors. "Love is the water that will eventually quench the
destruction."
Anderson said, "The most powerful statement by the organizers of the
planned September 11th bonfire would be to call it off in the name
and love of Jesus Christ."
US-Muslim reaction
"American Muslims and other people of conscience should support
positive educational efforts to prevent the spread of Islamophobia",
said
CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper
Meanwhile, the
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) had called on American
Muslims to react to the planned burning of the Quran by hosting
educational "Share the Quran" Ramadan fast-breaking dinners (iftars)
at which copies of Islam's holy book will be distributed to
neighbors, public and law enforcement officials and journalists.
"American Muslims and other people of conscience should support
positive educational efforts to prevent the spread of Islamophobia,"
said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper.
Hooper added that the initiative to burn the Quran is one many
Islamophobic efforts in that state of Florida and across the United
States.
CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy
organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam,
encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American
Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual
understanding.
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