By Ayman Ibrahim
Pastor and author Terry Jones, along with his congregation, plans to burn the Quran on September 11 in an attempt to urge Americans to “stand up” against the threat of Islam and to encourage the church to “be strong.”
He writes, “Our Land needs strong churches that understand and fulfill God’s vision of restoration and reformation.” Jones, who wrote Islam Is of the Devil, claims on his website that many Americans have supported his call to burn the Quran by sending him copies to be burned.
“What would Jesus do?” That was the question that came to my mind when I read about Pastor Jones. Being from the Middle East, I can feel the dramatic consequences of this horrific event if it were to actually take place.
First, the cycle of violence will never stop. You burn the Quran in America; someone will burn down a church, with its people, in Egypt. You burn the “sacred” book of Muslims, and an entire family could be set on fire in Indonesia.
Second, once you burn the Quran, you can no longer talk about the Bible as a peaceful message or good news—you have already violated and refuted your own message.
Third, by burning the Quran you offend 1.5 billion Muslims, claiming that all types of Muslims—cultural, Quranic, and militant—are from the devil and all the same.
Last January, Muslim fundamentalists decided to kill the joy of Christians in Upper Egypt through violence, by killing innocent Coptic Christians celebrating on Christmas Eve. Quranic and cultural Muslims went to sympathize with Christians, because they did not accept what some “Muslims” did.
This coming Saturday, Pastor Jones intends to kill the joy of Muslims worldwide by burning their holy of holies, claiming that such an act would make the Church strong. He writes on his website, “Our Land needs churches that are able to handle the revival we will see this century with the apostolic anointing.”
By burning the Quran you will not handle a revival; you will need to learn how to handle fights and cope with massacres. Moreover, this September 11 will overlap with the Muslim feast after the fasting of Ramadan, which will only intensify the situation.
Pastor Jones, what do you mean by a “strong” church—is it a church that holds weapons? That sends fire against enemies? This is not the gospel; it is insanity.
If you burn the Quran in America, you are sending thousands of churches in the Middle East into fire.
If you burn the Quran in your church, you are igniting violence against churches and Christians worldwide. You are free to do what you want in America, while in some parts of the world many Christians are not so free—and you are sending them into a literal fire. I wish you could live in Egypt for a few days to know how utterly senseless your action would be and the damage it would cause!
Pastor Jones, do not do this, please! It would be an example of disrespect such as no one has seen in the Word of God. By burning the Quran, you are isolating Christians and identifying them as enemies to Muslims.
After such an act, how could a Christian possibly present the gospel to a Muslim friend? In Luke 9, when the people of the Samaritan village did not welcome Jesus, the disciples James and John said to Jesus, “Lord, should we call down fire from heaven to burn them up?”
Jesus turned, and rebuked them, and said, “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of.”
Ayman Ibrahim is a Christian from Egypt and a doctoral student at Fuller Theological Seminary. Article is printed with permission by the author.
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Burn that piece a paper, why are you people afraid?/ Is my country filled with cowards?/ Fear them not, and when they come at you to harm you, defend yourself. This nation was founded on the Bible, I’m not religious, but given the two religions, I think I’ll stick with Christians, they don’t cut off peoples heads when they mess up. I am a vet, war decorated, and i say burn it, show them we mean it. and i say America love it or get out, live by our ways or get out. This thing goes deep people wake up. Burn that piece a paper. You people are too dam worried about them, dont be a coward stand up for what you believe in. All you congregations who think “Jesus will protect us all” better go back and read again, the good book sayds God ghelps those who help themselves, the decisions you are making right now will affect the futyre. Study them, study our enemiy, you will fing sinister motives, dont believe what they say they are lying. Do you love your daughters? your sons? your wives? Do you love freedom?/ this is AMERICA people, im a free man what about you? STAND UP!! the rest of you who wont are cowards. and whjen the chips are down, all will see those who will stand for what is right, for justice.me, im aint appeasing them, no way . I can respect your God, but i aint bowing down to him, this is America, land of my forefathers, we belive in the constitution, and sice we are on this, beware of those who seek to remove your rightts….these are peroules times.