Rev. Jones, the hatemongering, Quran-burning 'Christian' minister who heads the tiny Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida came to Dearborn, Michigan, to protest ‘radical’ Muslims in general (although he assured the press and later the jury that his group “…was not accusing…” local Muslims of being radical). He had said in an earlier interview with a local paper that he had chosen Dearborn because of the alleged adoption of Sharia law in the city, an observation that provoked laughter from Dearborn Mayor John B. O’Reilly, Jr. when asked about it on a local radio program. Jones, he noted, has been accused of causing the deaths of Americans in Afghanistan because of his insistence on burning the Quran.
Instead of protesting at a local Dearborn mosque, Rev. Jones accidentally shot his car, refused to post a Peace Bond, averred he would hold his protest outside the local mosque without it, was promptly charged with Contempt of Court… and went to jail. By the time he actually posted the bond, one dollar each for him and his assistant, it included the provision that he stay away from the mosque for three years.
The protest did not happen, and Jones left Detroit Metro Airport Saturday morning, vowing to return, and, invoking the name of the Thomas More Law Center, a well known conservative Christian law firm, threatened to sue the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office for violation of his civil rights for demanding the bond. The ACLU and Robert Sedler, a constitutional law professor at Wayne State University said that the Supreme Court has ruled it is the duty of the police to protect protestors at events like the one Rev. Jones planned. Sedler called the events in court, “bizarre.”
Rev. Jones said as he left that he would return next Friday and protest outside DearbornÂ’s municipal offices at 5 p.m. Â He said the issue has now shifted from "radical Islam" to a battle to protest the CityÂ’s violation of his First Amendment rights.
There is a marvelous irony in the story of any man, and far less a minister, who would protest against “radical Islam” fomenting violence by burning the holy book of that religion under great publicity and fanfare. That he would then head for the American city with arguably the highest concentration of Muslims of any community in America for the express purpose of “protesting radical Islam” while pointedly assuring every Muslim in Dearborn that he wasn’t targeting them is beyond ironic and borders on deliberate provocation.
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Comments: 58
He got an audience. He got to grandstand. He got publicity.
Maybe he can be Donald Trump's running mate.
As it is, while the first amendment bars the government from telling you what you can or cannot say there are a few exceptions which have been made traditional by the Supreme Court and that stipulation is one of them.
I think it's likely that they'll uphold his right to speak (as they should). There's no reason he should be held responsible for violence committed by people who don't like what he has to say.
Did the Muslim bogeyman visit him during the night?
Hateful and stupid....we have more than our share in this country.
Now that I think about it, I'd think that alone would have proved the prosecutors case about inciting a riot.
My first answer is in Gif form below... my second guess would be Elmer Fudd. :/
Same with conservatives.
They oppose Sharia BUT if you listen to their views on crime, the criminals would beg for Sharia over what the Cons dream up as punishment.
Both want to shove religion down the throats of non believers.
Both are paranoid their religion is under attack.
Both promote WAR against the other's relgion.
Both want THEIR religion embeded in their government.
Both do EVIL in the name of God.
The similarities just do NOT stop.
How often we have heard the right crying that God is not allowed in schools?
HOw about "Christian" fascists calling on a holy war on Islam?
There are neocons promoting/forcing the SAME values as the Muslim extremists in government and our personal lives.
Guys like Sims KNOW they are the same Religiofascists as Muslim extremists. That is why they hate each other so much.
I say again, their similarities just DO NOT stop.
The People can manage this if they'd like --
just like some of them have begun to manage the Westboro alleged Baptist Church when they protest military funerals where volunteers have begun to make angel wings out of white sheets and bring them to surround family and friends and block them from those crackpots.
The crackpots planned to show up during the funerals of those who died at the Gabby Giffords assassination attempt, the angels there started making their wings and the crackpots backed down. That is not the image they wanted to see on TV!
"Mr. Jones represented himself and told the jury that the mosque, one of the largest in the country, was chosen because his protest was against “a radical element of Islam.”....
Then....
“All we want to do is walk, demonstrate, protest on an area that already belongs to you, to the city,” he said. “We are not accusing this mosque. We are not accusing the people of Dearborn. We are not accusing all Muslims.” (emphasis mine)
So, which is it? He can't have it both ways. Either he IS accusing THIS mosque, and ALL Muslims, of being radical, or he's not, but he can NOT do both...unless he's seriously deranged. A possiblity that I haven't ruled out...
BTW, before he shot his car, did he warn everyone that he had a bullet, and threaten to Nip This In The Bud?
have a good day
You're being very nice to him. My opinion is much worse.