Terry The Terrible

By AM Saturday, April 9, 2011

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The religious cretin Terry Jones, pastor of Gainsville Church, Florida, has gone ahead and delivered on his threat of last year to burn the Koran. In response a gang of religious bigots, having just emerged from Friday prayer sessions, peacefully stormed a UN office in Afghanistan, peacefully killed many foreign staff people working there, two of whom were reported to be peacefully beheaded. A further five people, Afghans, are also said to have died although reports suggest the Afghan dead may have been protestors. The power of prayer at work again it seems.

One newspaper in Pakistan described the US religious idiots as ‘devil pastors’ who were guilty of blasphemy. It didn’t say much about the morons in Afghanistan being guilty of murder. All a bit daft to us on the outside of religion looking in at people promoting their invisible men and waving their holy books at each other. And all of them eager to burn and behead.

Jones was threatening the same type of action last year. Among the objectives then was the halting of things that got up his nose: ‘stop to Islam, stop to Islamic law, stop to brutality.’ Never seemed to figure with him that this could include water boarding. But as is the case with the one eyed men who lead religious groups there is always some excuse for being blind to certain truths.

After a roasting from US officialdom and a bit of to-ing and fro-ing between his ministry and god’s office Jones cancelled his torching spectacle. God, apparently had a change of heart, while officialdom, through the Peter King anti-Muslim witch hunt, has created an atmosphere in which book burning seemed an ok thing to do providing the books are those Muslims cherish. Jones after ‘trying to give the Muslim world an opportunity to defend their book’ and receiving no reply finally lost patience and decided to torch the same book. That sort of leaves his book of myths in poll position, in Gainsville anyway, where it will be considered truer than Islam’s book. The Koran has been purged through purifying fire. All conducted by true Christian gentlemen. Praise the Christian lord for that and All Power to the Zealots.

Now it seems that last year’s warnings from Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, that Jones could end up pouring gasoline on more than the Koran, has lift off. Jones can hardly hide behind the excuse that he had not been warned. But this should not mean that the religious crazies who hacked their way through UN staff in Afghanistan should be able to absolve themselves of responsibility for their own actions by blaming their fellow religious crazy, Jones. The demented pastor has a point when he protests that ‘we are not responsible for their actions.’ But it also means Islam cannot be deemed responsible for his.

But Jones didn’t just rush in. We have to give him that. A moron no doubt but a fair one as demonstrated by his holding true to US principles of justice and insising on a jury trial. On the last Sunday in March the good pastor put the Koran on trial in his church. The public were able to attend but only about 30 turned up. The defendant was found ‘guilty of crimes against humanity’ and duly ‘executed’ by the pastoral executioner, Wayne Sapp under the watchful eye of Pastor Jones. The execution, at ten minutes, lasted longer than the deliberation of the jury which took up a mere eight.

One woman who attended the trial of the Koran said of Muslims ‘these people, for me, are like monsters … I hate these people.’ Don’t be surprised if she turns up as a star witness at the Peter King hearings.