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Muslims urged to unite against "burn a Quran day" campaign


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(Bernama) - SUMENEP (East Java): The Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) has called on all Muslims around the world to unite against the "Burn a Quran Day" campaign to commemorate the Sept 11, 2001 attacks in America, Indonesia's Antara news agency said.

About 50 activists of this conservative Islamic organisation staged a protest in Sumenep, Madura Island, East Java Province, yesterday.

"May Almighty God curse those who have initiated and planned to burn the holy Quran. This is an act of cruel and uncivilised people," a spokesman of HTI, Faisal, told the crowd of protesters.

To stop this campaign, all Muslims in the world had no choice but to unite to do their best to prevent this from happening on Sept11, Antara quoted him as saying.

"The plan itself has hurt and humiliated Muslims all over the world. Don't let this happen," he said.

A HTI-Sumenep chapter activist named Rifki said yesterday's protest was staged to remind Muslim communities all over the world of this plan to burn the Quran in the US.

"We are sure that our brothers and sisters in Islam will be encouraged to do their best to stop this act. They will, at least, recite prayers for the failure of this act," he said.

“The people who wanted to burn the Quran in the US wanted to humiliate Muslims.

"This shows that the US does want to declare war on Muslims," he said.

"The US has always cornered Muslims by saying that Muslims are part of terrorists though that country is actually a terrorist to the Muslims," he added.

This controversial campaign has not only made Muslims in Indonesia deeply concerned but also stirred uneasiness in American society.

One of the Americans who expressed her worry was Jennifer S Byron.

In her recent article published in Newsweek-Washington Post online, Byron called on American Christians to reject the "Burn a Quran Day".

She said the "Burn a Quran Day" was the way of a church in Florida to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept 11 incident.

"So far the Christian response to this in America has been nearly dead silence."

"The National Association of Evangelicals has issued a press release opposing Burn a Quran Day. This is good, but it is basically just a statement to assure non-Evangelical Christians that Terry Jones does not represent authentic Evangelical Christianity," Byron said.

The Sept 11, 2001 attacks on American soil were launched by members of the al-Qaeda and killed several thousand people, especially in New York City's Twin Tower buildings.

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written by Sabahfan, September 05, 2010 16:47:43
FOR THE ground zero at New York, I REPEAT MY CALL to build temples and churches representing all the world's mainstream religion, then ONLY then I agree a small surau shoud be built there too... NOT a fukking big Mosque. There must be room for every religion, the space must not be MONOPOLISED by the religion of the Clerics who should themselves be BEHEADED
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written by Sabahfan, September 05, 2010 16:44:50
This "BetterMy" fella seems to be following me around in this MT.
Maybe he is someone from the MMC or UMNO spy goons trying to provoike me to ID myself since even RPK dont know my ID. he he he he

Hey BetterMy, go and preach to yourself and your Clerics lah, becos seriously, whenever the oppotunity arises, I will behead them... BUT never never Tok Guru of Kelantan. At least Nik Aziz has never called for Jihak in all his political life and dont even bring his official car home, unlike your UMNO bosses..

Therefore BetterMy, I am justified in calling for the beheadings of all the clerics of the likes of Osama and all those in UMNO including your PerkOsa chief... ha ha ha

And what the fukkk is TWO WRONGS does not make a right?

If I keep JUST one WRONG from your clerics, what would be the result? Isnt it TOTAL subservience to you FUKKING STUPID CLERICS??

Behead them all !!
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written by sedan, September 05, 2010 08:49:29
Most charismatic churches in Malaysia are non-denominational as well. The excuse that the Dove World Outreach Center is non-denominational is inexcusable. In fact, the Malaysian charismatic like the "non-denominational" tag. They can style themselves as better, purer and closer to the "spirit."

O course, the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF) of Malaysia doles out memberships for a fee.

It's only here in KL where pastors earn much more than the average common man. Even in denominational ones, "pastors" live like princes. One of them is even called Prince Guneratnam.

So, don't be fooled by these provocative stunts. Every non-denominational outfit needs a stunt for money.




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written by sedan, September 05, 2010 08:37:17
I must reiterate again. This Muslim and Quran bashing is just a publicity stunt. An evil stunt like the gimmicks many other evangelical hypocrites play. All they want is to divide and conquer AND your money.

Why can't Terry Jones burn the Quran in Saudi Arabia if he is so full of faith and divine protection? Of course, a coward will find any excuse to burn religious books from a safe distance.

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written by sedan, September 05, 2010 08:33:54
Well, I too am wondering about the profile of those who post messages here. First, the Dove World Outreach Center may be non-denominational but so was the Tabernacle of Glory in Malaysia back in the 80s and 90s.

TOG was once led by "Pastor" Peter Tan. He was know as a man "full of the spirit" with "power" till he was caught having sex with his own adopted daughter, an Indian girl called Uma and had pilfered tons of money from the church tithes.

The charismatic community in Malaysia was full of praise for Peter Tan, treated this charlattan like a demi-god till his downfall. Just about half of those who attended his congregation went crazy.

Peter Tan is now in Singapore, attempting to build yet another mega church.

TOG and the Dove World Outreach center and the likes always needs a publicity stunt to bring in the money. Whether it is burning the Quran or invoking some great power of the "spirit."

Remember, the operative raison d'etre for most denominational and non-denominational churhces is MONEY. And they use the prospect of hellfire to scare the daylights out of you.
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written by roggon, September 05, 2010 08:24:23
where is ebarhim afhlee?
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written by Better My, September 05, 2010 08:10:26
written by Sabahfan, September 04, 2010 23:22:50 Oh, BTW, I would support the construction of a Mosque near the 9/11 ground zero, provided they also build a small chapel, a small hindu temple, a small budhist temple, maybe a MAZU too... then only then I believe the people are calling for peace..."
Otherwise, I would just behead those so called fiery clerics... bullshit lah all of them

The west has accomodated more to muslim than other reglions/belief eg Buddhists, Hindus, apart from christianity. The muslim must never forget that the opportunity for the migrated ones to live in peace with all the safety nets. In return, the muslim and potentiall a model moderate muslim country, like malaysia, shoud stay away from extremism as much as possible, such as this Indonesia extreme groups.

Calls by Sabahfan to behead clerics is toaly unnecessary. Two wrongs dont make it right. If you have said that in a satirical way, it is still not a joke/satire to meddle with. It is fueling continuing hatred. Insteads, we say our piece peacefully, reason things out and put these extremism back into their box of ignominy and cold freezed. to -10 degree centigrade.

In the Malaysia context, any group, like the Perkasa group or sob FOC GRB, using this to "divde and rule" to garner Malay support must be condemned. Obviously, if you have read this correctly, this is to pre-empt any potential Perkasa/GRB clumsy attempt to cloud the sensitive muslim/religioous issue, hijacking it, in the absence of free open press/air media in Malaysia to discuss it.
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written by Nunudada, September 05, 2010 08:02:33
All of these inciting is a New World Order plan at creating global tension and unrest.These elitists control the Governments of many nations of this world,and their aim is to bring order out of chaos.This order to come in the aftermath will be enforced through military and police brutality to the masses under total subservient control.The best action to beat these masonic demons is not to react.No action would defeat their planned actions.This dirty cabal wants the entire world's wealth in the control of a few thousand family members and friends.Towards this end they are already depopulating the earth in a "SOFT -KILL" manner by adding poisons to the water and food and through the introduction of GMO seeds in agriculture.Bisphenol A has been added to plastic containers as sterilants ,as is mercury in many vaccines and lead in high fructose corn syrup that is the sweetener in most soft drinks.Be vary of what the mainstream media touts as most of it is designed news for the masses eyes only.The truth is really worrying and the only means to defeat the Global fascist cabal is to realize their game plan and take steps to counter their actions.Just like the fart organization PERKASA that is out to stir racial hatred here,this tactic has been used by almost ten decades by these Globalist elite.
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written by Revolution, September 05, 2010 04:23:05
It sounds like a bunch of morons VS an other bunch of morons .
50 exptremists VS 50 other extremists ...
An internet buzz within a sick planet .....

Peace , Love and Freedom
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written by Motherchell, September 05, 2010 03:39:06
I do not condone of such acts in this One World where the rich and Powerful manipulate the ordinary to stay in Power. My point is what is Taib planning to do ?? will he pull out his investments in the US while doing his window dressing with the socially least educated but religiously viable for votes.
Will KJ condescend to APCO's advice about climbing the trees in front of the US Embassy. I hope Perkasa don't say its the work of foreign agents this time. Najis will be speaking thro his craters with his MSM when they are supposed to be holding restraint in matters of religion.
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written by Sabahfan, September 04, 2010 23:22:50
Oh, BTW, I would support the construction of a Mosque near the 9/11 ground zero, provided they also build a small chapel, a small hindu temple, a small budhist temple, maybe a MAZU too... then only then I believe the people are calling for peace...

Otherwise, I would just behead those so called fiery clerics... bullshit lah all of them
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written by Sabahfan, September 04, 2010 23:20:17
Maybe in sabah, I will shoot an INDON a day for every clerics who called for beheading or Jihak..!!

I dont need guns, all I need is a silent blowpipe.. to kill those pestilence Indons , wish that TOYOL is nearby, he would be my first target,
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written by red1, September 04, 2010 18:51:49
It is allowed to be burnt to safeguard it from been abused by non-believers. It is a non-issue. You know Indons, they got lots of people to spare for any issue. Any day is a demonstration day.
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written by Better My, September 04, 2010 17:49:44
As in muslim communities, Christian would have their Malaysian "Perkasa equivalent and this call is more likely the call from the Christian "Perkasa.

In the backdrop of 911 twin towers destruction and thousands fiery/falling from the skycraper deaths(equivalent to say Christian destroying the Petronas Towers and thousands of mulsim burning to dealth from the towers), many New Yorkers support the construction of Islamic mosque in the vicinity of ground zero, including the Mayor of New York, Bloomberg, from recent world news. Whether this is going to come to fruition, the fact is this was contemplated in all seriousness and controversies. Would the muslim ever think of supporting a Chritsian church beside Petronas Towers if the towers were burnt to the grounds with fiery deaths by the christians? I dont think so.

In the above paragraph, you can replace Malaysia with Indonesia and Petronas with Indonesia most prestigious building, would Indonesia consider a christian church built at thier ground zero? I dont thnk so either.

An isolated incident should be responded by the locals in that region, not translated to the world, with calls for retaliation and assets burning. All these are symptons of insecurities of the religion. threats of retaliation worldwide is repugnant response to the high possibility of it being an isolated incident. The christian in the world are NOT urging every chrisiian or atheist to do this, from current world news.

Groupie like Indonesia the Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) must learn to GROW UP. If christian or other faith groups were to call for action in the reverse order after extreme muslim do similar acts, the semi-defacto silent decades old religious fundamentalism war will come more & more to the front with continuing terrible unnecessary loss of lives.

For malaysia to shine in the world and lead by example in how muslim can be compatible to modern matured society, especially under PR govenrment where most religions illogical issues/procedures/calls (like the one above) can be contained or eradicated, the muslim either bite their lips and contain their aggro (as many christian have done in reverse) or condemn these unncessary calls for world retaliation actions by these extreme Indonesians have done.

Of course, with the our Perkasa and sob FOC/GRB, all bets are off as they are grandmaster of racial baiting , "West Vs Muslim" " Non-muslim in malysia Vs Muslim" The good muslim must not allow these opportunists to control these agenda and use this issue to blunt PR intiatives todate in Malaysia.

USA ( & western world, like England & Australia) has done ALOT to accomodate all American muslim, in giving them equality, freedom, subject to security matters, compared to the what Islamic countries, like malaysia has done for non-muslim with total racism in every day affairs. These western countries have provided very safe havens to the many muslim in their destitute hours. For example, the Afghanistan muslim would take the huge risks in their leaky boats, through Islamic Malaysia & Indonesia to try to get to Australia to seek safe houses, from the many reports in the net.

The muslim must never forget that more fo the good things done by western Christian countries for muslim in the christian countries and Vice versa, less in proportion to date. Then the world will be a better place.
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written by alacarte, September 04, 2010 17:30:36
Read nicely, a Church in US without denomination, this could be just one Church founded by a particular person, just like the Sky Kingdom Islamic sect. in the East Coast. Why they translate to U.S. attacking Islam? Can't they be rational and use their thinking caps?
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written by Jeevan, September 04, 2010 16:39:57
guess we can figure out who the majoritarian commenters are now..

americans are turning into morons, just like us.
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written by cheekhiaw, September 04, 2010 16:31:07
Stupid people getting worked up by that. Let those first world idiots from the dark ages burn all they want. They have to pay for what they burn. With the state their country is in, it will be in ashes soon without having to burn cheap books.
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written by samadhi8, September 04, 2010 16:00:53
Any person will a little bit of common sense should know that this is WRONG.

This reminds me of the time when Muslims blasted the huge + ancient statue of Buddha (carved out of the side of the mountain) in Afganistan. True religion should teach one to RESPECT another's religion be it statue, holy scriptures or teaching or its disciples.

Confucius "Study the Past if you would define the Future"
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written by Ken Liew, September 04, 2010 15:37:03
dam, i forgot.. RACIST~!
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written by Ken Liew, September 04, 2010 15:36:13
AND the MOST humiliation among Islam are the CORRUPTION, Cowards, Turncoat and USE ISLAM as a Tool for power, THOSE KIND OF EVIL BEING~!....

Guess WHO???... You name it.

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