Wow, I am flabbergasted!!

Worshippers of the true God recognise that we worship Him each in our own way. Those who understand God do not fight about the way we worship Him. It is only those who do not know or understand God who are afraid and angry that others worship differently. The terrorists who drove the aircraft into the twin towers and the people who seek to destroy books (which are, after all, merely paper) are equally misguided and both will find their rewards in due course. The danger is that people will be swayed by their own hatred and feelings of disgust for these people. God alone will be the judge. Our duty is to try to love the individuals but to hate their actions. If we can rid ourselves of emotion and feelings by laying them before God, then He will understand and forgive us.

I think such an action as burning any religious Sacred Book by one religion to show hatred toward another religion is absolutely shameful. It seems that this preacher is of the same ilk as the infamous Rev. Jeremiah Wright who seem to only want to incite more hatred between different people. According to the following article this action could have deadly consequences for our troops! ‘Burn the Qur’an Day’ Endangers US Troops: Petraeus Every day for the past few days there have been demonstrations in Afghanistan against the scheme of the Christian fundamentalist Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, to burn copies of the Qur’an on September 11. This sort of grandstanding by a tiny congregation with global ramifications reminds us that in the contemporary world, technology magnifies the power of individuals and small groups, which is a real problem when they are hateful. (The evangelical leadership has scolded the group for this action). The Kabul demonstrations have alarmed Gen. David Petraeus, who is attempting a gargantuan counter-insurgency project in Afghanistan, which depends for its success on America winning the hearts and minds of Afghan Muslims. He issued a statement on Monday deploring the Dove Outreach plan and saying, “It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort in Afghanistan.” http://www.juancole.com/2010/09/burn-the-quran-day-endangers-us-troops-petraeus.html

Knowing what the Koran says, it is definitely not something I support. HOWEVER, what good does it do to burn it? I think all it does it inspire resentment and hatred towards Christians. Not to mention, it makes Christians look bad. This guy and his church are not the norm. Being against a religion is one thing, but deliberately trying to provoke people? Why in the world would we want to stoop to something so low? Some may say, well Muslims burn Bibles...What is this, elementary school? Are we going to stick our tongues out and go Na na na na na na...

I am neither a Muslim nor a too very religious guy. But I think burning a Holy book (of any religion) will only bring bad name and create non-friends. I don't see the point in hurting a whole community's sentiments (many people are quite sentimental when it comes to Holy Books and Religion) just because there exist a few bad and mis-led guys from this community. Again, there is no end to it. Today you burn their holy book, tomorrow they will burn yours and then you would do something else to hurt them/their feelings and they would do the same. I am not sure how these differences can be cleared and the mess cleaned up but instead of hurting we should start the healing process which would have long lasting results not only for the people but also for the planet.

I 2 am a muslim, and i find it despicalble. If a group of muslims decided to start burning bibles, what would happen then? They would be terrorists! But when some americans want to burn qurans, thats ok, thats freedom of speech! I honestly hope something bad happens to these people, and if terrorsit did decide to kill them all, i think that if any media said it was unprovoked, or out of the blue, or an act of terror, they would by lieing! What do you expect if you start disrespecting people liek that? Its absoulte ridiculous, and during ramadan as well!

i am a muslim my sister. and doing that is great mistake for the whoole humanity i swear of Allah if they do that something very horrible will happened the those people if god want that. please if you can do anything about that just do it. i am from morocco and nothing is possible for me to do. if there is just tell me :(

Hi TexLady, Obviously the guy is a lunatic. Nothing good can come from this. He is sending a very hateful message out that while he is entitled to his own thoughts, the message has the potential to cause a lot of problems for a lot of people. Someone should stop him and have him mentally evaluated. And you have to wonder why the media is making such a big deal about this. His burning of the Koran is bad enough but the media exploiting on it is just guaranteeing that there will be trouble.

the guy isn't a Christian if he does something like this. hes also taking the chance of putting more U.S troops in harms way. this will only give Muslim extremists more of an excuse to attack U.S. troops.

Shades of Nazi Germany. It is appalling!

I am a devoted Roman Catholic but I feel disgusted with this act to burn the Kor'an. In the Philippines we strongly respected our Muslim brothers and even declared the end of their Ramadan our national holiday, they should be respected and should be treated nice eventhough there are lots of news about Muslim terrorists, granting that there are also Christian terrorists we should not be putting all the blame to all Muslims on what had happened on September 11. We should respect the Kor'an because it is the sacred Muslim bible. Why are so people become so demonic now adays? We cannot achieve world peace if we continued doing hostilities towards our fellow men, we should respect one another, the mistakes and crimes committed by people in one particular religion did not represent all the people in that religion. It's true, this act has a strong impact to the US troops in Afghanistan or Irag. The Muslims there will made them repay all those disrespect committed by those people who burned Kor'an, they will take revenge. Gosh!and now there are no world peace because of this wrong move. Oh God help the planet Earth!

I haven't heard of this, but wow, that is very disturbing news. I'm not of any religion and I think this is shameful as an American.

This is not freedom of religion or speech: this is licentiousness. There must be a line you don´t cross. Your freedom ends where the next person´s freedom begins. I would put the traspasser in jail, to say the least. That act is as shameful as the 9/11 act. It is terrorism at its best. SHAME!!!

I have to say Patsy, this is interesting, very interesting. I don't believe in burning anything religious. I also do not believe in the burning of flags either. Yet we see it being done all of the time. It does however make me wonder why there is being such a stink over it, I saw the other night many people in Afghanistan burning the American flag, yet we don't hear any complaints about that. Of course at the same time, they were burning big posters of Obama, now that I started laughing at. Of course laughing that much brought on some more pain, but I had to laugh. Burning religious items, including Bibles of any religion to me is very wrong. To me that is sort of like proving that we are as bad as they are. Of course though on the other hand, if there was to be a end of the world scenario, and it was bitter cold, and no firewood and the only thing left to burn was Bibles, I would be the first one to throw it on the fire. No matter what religion. As for doing it to make a statement, its just not right at all. Because the only statement coming through is that its the pot calling the kettle black.