Now thankfully, pastor Terry Jones has called off his threat to burn copies of the Qur'an. Yet, the article which reports this good news has failed to fill me with any joy.
In it, Jones claims that he's made a deal with the Imam of the proposed Ground Zero mosque, with the result that"has agreed to move the location."Now, I doubt that this is true. But, if it is, then what is this but a successful act of terrorism? Someone is doing something perfectly legal which someone else doesn't want them to, so they threaten to destroy something valuable which the other person value very highly in order to blackmail them into giving up their original project. Manipulation is not God-honouring, Mr Jones.
"The American people do not want the mosque there, and, of course, Muslims do not want us to burn the Koran."Nine years later, phenomenally different in scale, but how much different in principle?