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Title: GUESTVIEW: The Qur’an cannot be burned!
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blogs.reuters.com
URL Source: http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld ... r%E2%80%99an-cannot-be-burned/
Published: Sep 12, 2010
Author: Aref Ali Nayed
Post Date: 2010-09-12 14:27:02 by Ferret Mike
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The following is a guest contribution. Reuters is not responsible for the content and the views expressed are the authors’ alone. Aref Ali Nayed is director, Kalam Research & Media, Dubai. Years ago, in Toronto, I read on the concrete walls of a highway bridge the following bold and sacrilegious message: “God is dead! Signed: Nietzsche,” and under it “Nietzsche is dead! Signed: God!” Silly as the street message may be, it brings home a simple fact: God cannot be killed! Even as all else, including Nietzsche, dies, God remains. This is because for all theists, to put it starkly: God is God. God lives. Man dies. Some human beings, through their hateful infidelity, may wish not to “let God be God,” as Karl Barth puts it. However, despite all such arrogance, God will indeed always be God! Similarly, His very Speech, the Qur’an, will always be His very Speech. It is a Sunni Muslim central doctrine that the Qur’an is the eternal Speech (Kalam) of God. As an eternal divine attribute, the Qur’an cannot possibly be burned, no matter how hard Terry Jones and his likes may try. There cannot be a “Burn the Qur’an Day,”because, to put it simply: The Qur’an cannot be burned! However, burning even a thousand Mushafs, which is of course physically possible, will not achieve the senseless goal of burning of the Qur’an. As an Attribute of God Himself, the Qur’an, for the Muslim, is eternal (qadim) and everlasting (baqi). But what Terry Jones’s irresponsible and hateful stunt will certainly achieve is a worsening of communal relations at a time when we all should be striving for peace. Already, his inflammatory rhetoric and theatrics are communally undermining the advocates of such peace-making initiatives as ‘A Common Word,’ and making angry youth even more susceptible to the Manichean recruitment arguments of terrorist groups. As sincere Muslims, Christians and Jews strive to ”build bridges”, Terry Jones has already started to burn them. He has already managed to deeply hurt ordinary, compassionate and law-abiding Muslims all over the world, because the Qur’an is so central to their lives. The momentum Jones has unleashed is further marginalizing a Muslim community that is already facing a colossal stigma in the West due to ever growing hate and victimization. Although, as God’s very Speech, the Qur’an is safe from any attempt to burn it, our communities are not. There is a need to protect our communities, and especially America, from the danger of degenerating into the fires of hateful and resurgent and repackaged neo-Nazism, and irrational reactions to it. Let us never forget that on April 6th, 1933, the Nazi German Student Association proclaimed a nationwide “Action against the Un-German Spirit” that called for a literary purge of cleansing (Säuberung) by fire. Soon after, on May 10th, 1933, university students burned more than 25,000 volumes of “un-German books”. Soon after that, the burning of actual human beings, our Jewish brothers and sisters, began, in the horrific fires of the Shoah (Holocaust).* Stopping Terry Jones is not about saving the Qur’an from being burned. The Qur’an cannot be burned, no matter how hard Jones may try, for its preservation is divinely guaranteed. It is about saving America and the world, from a neo-Nazism that is now clearly on the rise, having repackaged itself by re-focusing its hateful wrath onto Islam and Muslims, and that works in a deeply worrying mirroring dynamics with its counterpart: terrorist groups that distort and abuse Islam to justify their criminal designs and actions. In addition to anti-terrorism efforts, there is also an urgent need for a fresh “denazification” campaign, through which Jews, Christians, Muslims and all men and women of good faith, expose neo-Nazism for what it is: criminal, and dehumanizing hate that hides behind such high values as “free speech.”
(Photo: A woman reads the Koran in Srinagar , India, September 11, 2009/Fayaz Kabli) 
(Photo: Boys read the Koran in Mathura, India, August 23, 2009/K. K. Arora) 
(Photo: A man reads the Koran in Srinagar, September 16, 2008./Fayaz Kabli) 
(Photo: Pilgrims read the Koran near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, December 7, 2008/Ahmed Jadallah)
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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
Exodus 20:3 Exodus 20:4-5 You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God” Islam is not a religion but a political ideology which incites hate, violence, intolerance and terror. Islamists are terminators. You cannot bargain with them. You cannot reason with them. They do not feel pity or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until all the infidels are dead or have submitted to Islam.” The only language the Islamists understand is the language of force. In non-Muslim lands, Islamism, flush with Petrodollars, has been accelerating in its drive for the world Caliphate and is moving at the speed of light by building more mosques, printing more indoctrinating Islamic books, imposing more its presence in the western culture, in our schools and university campuses, bullying, intimidating and challenging more Christians and other peaceful people of faith and by using our democratic laws against us. In the Islamdom, they can dish out insults to non-Muslims; arrest Christians, Bahia’s or the Jews just for praying. They can confiscate their Holy books and toss them in the trash. They call the Jews pigs and monkeys, and spit on anyone that isn’t Muslim. But they go into frenzies of righteous outrage at the slightest criticism of their barbaric and highly dangerous beliefs. They never need to challenge the existing political order in our country, but can achieve all their goals without bothering or violating the Constitution of the U.S. because that Constitution guarantees complete government non- interference toward religion. Finally and the most important element perhaps is the extreme coziness and appeasement by the current U.S. administration towards Islam, Muslims and radical Muslims which will recklessly and unknowingly drag the whole country and her citizens into an everlasting Islamic inferno, an inferno similar to the Islamic Republic of Iran and other Islamic terrorist countries. A constitutional amendment must be passed quickly defining Islam as a hostile political force with a global totalitarian agenda, and as such is totally inimical to our constitution and our national security, and that further to this definition, all practicing Muslims must either renounce this cult or be deported to their countries of origin, and all mosques must be demolished, since their goal is to propagate political propaganda, which has nothing whatsoever to do with 'religion' - let alone one of ‘peace’. That’s going to be the final ‘solution’ for Islam in America. "Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission." – Qur'an:9:29 We must also end the deadly practice of “Political Correctness.” Truth, only naked truth, can set us free. And freedom is our greatest gift of life. Life without freedom is death disguised as life. Remember Patrick Henry’s cry: Give me liberty or give me death. Humanity cannot afford, and must not ignore, the emergence of the latest threat to its very existence on this planet. We must fight for life, for liberty, for freedom and end the nightmare of Islamic hellfire. “Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.” – Qur’an:9:5
#2. To: Murron (#1)
You spam only because you are intolerant and scared of other viewpoints. You spam because you are inarticulate and lack the intellectual wherewithal to generate an insightfully point of view that adds to the discussion. Thanks for the ping anyway. It is about the level of response I expect from you. You are always welcome to ping my articles back to the top. And worry not, I realize you don't have the level of education needed to read this article and answer it. I don't slam you for your shortcomings.
Pssst! Islam worships the same god the Jews worship.
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#3. To: Murron (#1)
"You shall have no other gods before me."
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