There must always be respect, no matter what religion you are. How to practice a religion when you are doing opposite of what it teaches? Since when religion teach us that violence, hurting and hate is ok? Whether you believe in a religion or not, it does not give you the right to disrespect someone else's. The girl shouldn't have done that. Look at what she created. Now people are just waiting to hurt her for what she have done. Look at what Terry Jones done? Sigh...
Terry Jones, the crackpot Florida pastor who promised to burn the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11 in 2010, promoted the low-budget, anti-Muhammad film that sparked riots and
triggered the killing of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens on Tuesday.
Known as "Innocence of Muslims" or "Muhammad, Prophet of the Muslims," the incendiary flick depicts Muhammad, Islam's holiest prophet, as a thuggish womanizer, and Muslims as homosexuals, child molesters and madmen.
Jones defended the film, produced by amateur moviemaker Sam Bacile, and showed a trailer of it on Tuesday, which he dubbed "International Judge Mohammed Day," The Orlando Sentinel reported.
"The fact that angry protesters climbed the wall at the U.S. embassy in Cairo today, ripped down the American flag and tore it apart further indicated the lack of respect that Islam has for any other religion," Jones said in the statement.
"Islam is a religion that is totally incompatible with Western free society."
On Wednesday, a source told Reuters that a top U.S. military official contacted Jones and urged him to stop supporting the film.
Outrage over the film swept the Middle East and led to the killings of four diplomats in Libya, including U.S. ambassador Stevens.
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Stevens, 52, was killed in Benghazi when the American embassy there was hit with a fusillade of rocket-propelled grenades.
Thousands of angry protesters also stormed the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. Chanting “We are all Osama,” the mob tore down the U.S. flag there and replaced it with a black Islamic one.
President Obama condemned the “senseless violence,” noting that Stevens “helped save the city” in which he was killed, referring to the envoy’s work in Libya's second-largest city during the fall of Moammar Gadhafi last spring.
“The United States condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous and shocking attack,” Obama said in a Rose Garden address on Tuesday, flanked by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In a video announcing “International Judge Muhammad Day,” on Tuesday, he wore a shirt with the word “Infidel” printed in Arabic on it, The Tampa Bay Times reported.
The fanatical firebrand pastor's history of Muslim bashing dates back to July 2010, when he began promoting Sept. 11, 2010, as "International Burn a Koran Day" on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
The former hotel manager also wrote a book, "Islam is of the Devil," and posted signs with the slogan outside his church, the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville.
Jones and his followers claimed that Muslims wanted to impose sharia law on the United States and said torching the holy book would "bring to awareness to the dangers of Islam and that the Koran is leading people to hell."
U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was reportedly killed in a rocket attack during protests over an anti-Muslim film in Libya.
