URGENT: Express your feelings against "Burn a Quran" Day Event!

tsmy —

Assalam alaikum,


Please read the note below from Br. Tauseef.


I would urge everyone take action against this serious matter and to express your feelings in this blessed month of Ramadhan. It only takes 5 minutes of your time, but it's the least we can do in this regard.


Please forward to your contacts.


Regards


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"Burn a Quran" Day Event


Asalaamu alaykum,


You may be aware of the "Burn a Quran" Day event which is planned for September 11 by the Dove World Outreach Center based in Gainesville, Florida in the United States. If not, you are now!!


Anyway, there is an online petition at www.muslimpetition.org that you can sign opposing this event. However, even more than this I believe that direct contact with this organisation is more effective rather than standing at a distance and voicing your opposition to other than these people.


With that note, I strongly encourage you to write to this organisation directly with a message asking that they cancel this event and giving your reasons, in a civilised and intellectual manner.


The link on their website to contact them (as it's maybe too late to send a letter all the way there) is: http://www.doveworld.org/contact


I have sent the following message to give you an idea, or you can compose your own message. Either way, please do consider communicating your feelings about this disturbing event to this organisation. Jazaakhallahu khayrun.


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Greetings,


I'm writing to let you know of my deep disappointment and distress at the planned burning of the most sacred book in the world, the Holy Qur'an which today has not been disproved to be the literal Word of the Divine unlike every other holy scripture. Unlike the Bible which gets humanly revised every now and again (look up the Councils of Nicea).


I implore you to reconsider and voice your own distress and anger via much more civilised and discursive methods than through the Hitlerian ways of the Third Reich. You have every right to have your opinion but going against Jesus' (peace be on him) guidance of love and peace is surely hypocritical. This is not the way to go about letting people know how you feel.


First of all, if Muslims were involved in 9/11, then out of 1.7 billion Muslims, would you not call that a minority. Please do not judge the many by the few and recognize that you are in danger of besmirching the Christian faith just as a few Muslim extremists give Islam a bad representation.


I trust you will reconsider and cancel this event and instead plan much more progressive, positive and constructive occasions.


Yours sincerely,

M. Tariq

United Kingdom

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Vocalist — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 - 19:09

[quote=MakeMeRawr_8TeenF][quote=Vocalist] an atheist (and boy do I hate that word) [/quote]


Why's that?[/quote]


You do not call a none Racist anything for not being racist. Nor a none Communist a none communist, someone who isn't homophobic a none-homophobe.. etc.


Yet when someone states they do not believe in a God, they are called Atheists. The one and perhaps only time a word is used to describe somebody for something they are not.


Vocalist — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 - 19:12

[quote=You]

I would also argue that it is the same people who were most likely to burn it who are now wanting to burn it, so it really has not made a difference.[/quote]


Pastor Jones left his bonfire of books alone, he got the 15 minutes he wanted and now does not have to worry about the death threats. Though there are plenty on the fringe who are now emboldened by his (lack of) actions.


You — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 - 19:22

[quote=Vocalist]You do not call a none Racist anything for not being racist. Nor a none Communist a none communist, someone who isn't homophobic a none-homophobe.. etc.


Yet when someone states they do not believe in a God, they are called Atheists. The one and perhaps only time a word is used to describe somebody for something they are not.[/quote]


That pre supposes that athiesm is the natural state of mind.


(I would argue its not, but that is irrelevant here.)


I would also mention that those who do have a view to there being a natural state of mind as we Muslims do ("the fitrah", which is considered to be pure), still have a name for our religion. More its a name given to the religion by God as revealed in the qur'an.


Some things just have names - and having a name is not always a negative thing.


Vocalist — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 - 19:30

[quote=You]


That pre supposes that athiesm is the natural state of mind.


(I would argue its not, but that is irrelevant here.)[/quote]


Only through indoctrination as a child does one become a Muslim, Christian or whatever. You are a Muslim because you were born into a Muslim family etc.


I could argue that we only have religion because we have Frontal lobes which are too small and our adrenal glands are too big 😃 We fear death, the dark and anything unknown to us and so we create religion.


We are only just getting to understand the universe and we are so infantile in our knowledge... so far!


RI_RS — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 - 19:48

[quote=Vocalist][quote=MakeMeRawr_8TeenF][quote=Vocalist] an atheist (and boy do I hate that word) [/quote]


Why's that?[/quote]


You do not call a none Racist anything for not being racist. Nor a none Communist a none communist, someone who isn't homophobic a none-homophobe.. etc.


Yet when someone states they do not believe in a God, they are called Atheists. The one and perhaps only time a word is used to describe somebody for something they are not.[/quote]


Well someone who's not a racist or homophobe is usually called something else...

like 'liberal' or 'tolerant' or other such words. Those words cover a wide range so they're used to cover other things too, they're vaguer than perhaps atheist.


I don't see what's wrong with giving a label to something that requires it tbh.


If you'd rather, maybe people could call Atheists Heathens or Infidels instead?