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Want a free car? Threaten to burn a Quran, the holy book of Muslims around the world. It also helps if you are a Christian pastor, and you threaten to do it on the anniversary of 9/11.
Yesterday, Gainesville pastor Terry Jones picked up a free 2011 Hyundai Accent worth $14,200 from former New York Giants tackle Brad Benson, says the Orlando Sentinel. Benson is now New Jersey’s largest car dealer. Benson gave away the car in return for a commitment to never burn the Muslim holy book.
Jones never burned the Quran, but he said that it wasn’t the free car that kept him. The pastor told The Associated Press that the offer Benson had made in a radio ad was not the reason. He took the car nonetheless.
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Hmm…religion, Hyundais and 9/11.
Nothing controversial here…
I’m going to burn a Koran, Bible, Talmud, and anything else holy.
Where’s MY free car?
Are you a christian pastor?
For that much burning, I’d expect an Equus – or at least a Genesis coupe.
This is how America works – everything is commercialized to the nth-degree…
What a dumbass. Let’s stir up the hornet’s nest some more! I think he might have some trouble in the next little while just for suggesting this course of action, and not the legal kind…
–And he’s a snake for keeping the car. Though maybe he’s planning to donate it to a needy family in his congregation?
Idiot.
His PR folks are saying that he plans to donate it to a charity for abused Muslim women.
Benson gave away the car in return for a commitment to never burn the Muslim holy book.
In other words, Jones got the car in exchange for dhimmitude. Oh well, at least unlike most people, Jones was rewarded for his subservience.
Hahahahaha, are you serious dude?
Why shouldn’t I be?
Just so I’m clear about where you’re coming from, are you of the opinion that Jones shouldn’t have acquiesced to being pressured to not burn the Koran?
My opinion is that Terry Jones should either have gone ahead and burned the Koran, or he never should have threatened to burn it in the first place.
What Jones ended up doing was the worst thing he could do – he first threatened to burn the Koran, but then failed to do so. To make matters even worse, he now seems to have promised never to burn it in the future in exchange for a car (!).
Let’s stir up the hornet’s nest some more!
This too seems like an attitude of dhimmitude!
I’m with Lampredi. Everyone’s for free speech (burn the American flag, dunk a crucifix in urine, portray Christ as a homosexual in a play, etc.) as long as the target is a peaceful, non-violent group, or at least can be controlled by the threat of government authority.
But if the target group has a strong tendency to violence, and even proclaims their strong tendency to violence (yes, I know, a great majority of Muslims are peaceful, but a very significant number are most certainly not), everybody just tells the good pastor to essentially shut up. The President, with all the weight of his office, tells the man not to do it without once ever invoking the First Amendment, but the same President is all for the NYC mosque builders’ First Amendment rights and feels compelled to give us a lecture about it.
Just looking for consistency – you know, like the rule of LAW, enshrined in the Constitution, is supposed to give us.
Doing a bit of day drinking, are ya boys? I was thinking about writing a dignified response that clearly illustrated why and the extent to which you’re both wrong but then I remembered this is the internet and none of it matters. It’s easier to just point and laugh at the stupid people anyway.
It’s easier to just point and laugh at the stupid people anyway.
I suppose I can’t blame you for taking the easy way out and resorting to crude name-calling if the alternative was “writing a dignified response that clearly illustrated why and the extent to which you’re both wrong”…
Thank you Lampredi and ja-gti…you summarized perfectly how I feel about this. People weren’t speaking out because they understood the religion, or because they felt that that particular religion deserved more respect than others. They (including politicians) were speaking out because they were frightened by the religion. How often were non-terror based reasons used in the days leading up to the event? Not very much, and not by any leaders. That was a political system and the everyone involved in it bowing the violence of a small group of people fighting in the name of a religion. And that is, quite simply, totally unacceptable.
You guys want to total up the worldwide deaths that Islam and Christianity are responsible for in the names of their respective religions? We can restrict it to just the 20th and 21st centuries to make it even begin to be close.
Most of the Muslim world was colonized by Europeans as late as the 60s.
I’m with Lampredi and ja-gti also.
I don’t recall anyone saying he didn’t have the right to do it. I can – and do – support free speech absolutely, but I also feel free to call someone an idiot when they are.
I recall two lines of argument against Mr. Nutball – first, that he was being a complete and utter bigot, and second, that his publicity stunt could harm US troops by giving the enemy propaganda fodder.
Neither of those arguments consists of, “Oh no, we’re going to upset Muslims so we should stop”. If that were the case, God knows a hell of other people would have shut up a long time ago.
Cherry-picking one attention whore’s pragamatism to promote the idea that we’re abridging free speech to placate extreme Islam is absurd. You’d have a much stronger case if you were referring to the caricature issues in Europe – and even that seems to be a bow to a fear of terrorism rather than religion per se.
He took the car nonetheless.
… and turned around and donated it to a women’s shelter.
You forgot that part.
” Jones told The Jersey Journal yesterday that he wasn’t the person who chose WomenRising as the recipient of the car, but was happy with the choice. When he heard about the car, he decided to donate it and asked the World Evangelical Outreach to suggest a recipient….
We think it’s a good thing,” said David Cantin, general manager of Brad Benson Hyundai, “because the car is able to stay in the state here and go to a great purpose”. WomenRising will use the car, which is decorated with two patriotic peace symbols, for transporting women to and from family visitations”
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-5/128781512384190.xml&coll=3
Who cares about any of this? Really?
Muslims might.
What happens if I threaten to burn a 2011 Hyundai Accent? :)
Uh… you get a Koran?
Anyone who is outside the New Jersey airwaves should take a listen to some of the ‘regular’ Brad Benson radio spots. This guy does a new rambling attempt at funny every week, like I used to do with answering machine messages. He’s like the loud uncle that thinks he’s hilarious.
Of special note is his old ’40 foot erection’ announcement when he brought a goal post to the dealership.
He is constantly on NJ101.5 and uses the hot story of the week to work into a commercial. Definitely the loud uncle. Definitely not funny.
“Pastor”-dude deserved nothing more than pity, scorn, and a swift kick in the pants.
There’s some inflammatory editorial license playing out here.
The headline should read “Quran Non-Burner Donates Free Car to Women’s Shelter”, since he neither burned a book nor kept a car.
But it’s much more entertaining to poke fun at Christians, since they don’t threaten to kill anyone for doing so.
That so-called minister is a huckster. He was booted out of Germany for running a cult. He came here and is setting up the same type of scam. And the media played into it. Give him no air time – just write him off until he commits a crime then lock him up.
Now, let’s get back to cars…