The burning of Qurans in Florida is wrong. It is working out the old Doctrine of “an eye for an eye.” Jesus taught that we should transcend and rise above the legal right to extract vengeance. This is designed to hurt and punish; “you hurt me, now I’m going to get you back." The Bible supports retaliation by Kings and Governments but never by Churches or individual Christians.
That said, I understand the Pastor’s frustration. Muslims, both overseas and at home, commit atrocities in the name of Allah and our government and the mainstream media fail to even mention the event. The theory is that if we forgive and make apologies for the Muslims, maybe they will be nice and quit trying to hurt us. There is a huge and palpable, if unspoken, fear that anything said or done to offend Muslims will come back and bite us. Face it, in matters pertaining to Islam, all of our news stories and every reaction of our Government is colored by fear of negative reactions in the Muslim world.
When churches are burned and their congregations slaughtered in Indonesia you have to go to the web to even hear the story. When one misguided Christian kills one Abortion Doctor, people dare to compare that action with 9/11 and say that “Christians are as bad as Muslims”. No one bothers to bring up the numerical differences.
It is OK for Saudi Arabia to make the conversion of a Muslim to Christianity a death penalty offense for both the Converter and the Converted. No one is bothered by the fact that it is illegal to build a church or a synagogue in Iran or Saudi Arabia but Saudis and Iranians living in New York insist on their right to build a mosque near Ground Zero. Muslims want it both ways; they want the right to harass, persecute and even kill Christians in parts of the world they control; and they want their “Constitutional Rights” in New York.
Terrorism is working. We as a People and as a Government are terrified to do or say anything that offends a Muslim. That means that they are winning. Their goal is to terrorize us and we are living in fear. I understand the Pastor’s frustration; I am frustrated as well. I think he has every right to do what he plans to do. I believe he is wrong but the truly wrong; the really bad people are those Americans who defend the Imam while condemning the Pastor. That is the height of cowardice; an act born out of fear. Those are the people who have already surrendered to terrorism. You lose… They have already won!