Gambia Gov’t condemns Qur’an burning
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The government of The Gambia has strongly condemned the recent burning of
the Holy Qur’an by Terry Jones, a US pastor in a Florida Church.

In a statement indicating The Gambia Government’s position yesterday, Ebrima
O. Camara, the secretary general and head of the Civil Service, The Gambia
Government called on the US government to bring Terry Jones to justice as
quickly as possible saying his (Jones) action has endangered the lives of
millions of American citizens who do not subscribe to his devilish views
about Islam, and which endangers US national security  around the world.

Below is the full text of the statement.
Fellow Gambians
We learnt with utter dismay, shocks and consternation of the burning of a
copy of the Holy Quran by Terry Jones last month in the United States of
America. This heinous act of infamy, bigotry and provocation we condemn in
the strongest possible terms.  Terry Jones has carried out his threat which
is a declaration of war on Islam and Muslims, thereby endangering world
peace and security as we the Muslim worldwide cannot stand idly by and allow
racial dogs, bigots and dangerous infidels like Terry Jones and his
collaborators to not only defame Islam, but desecrate on the noble and
glorious Holy Quran for whatever reason.

It is interesting that he carried out this heinous act with impunity under
the guise of freedom of expression etc and even goes about to shamelessly
say that the killing of the UN staff in Afghanistan, which is a consequence
of his dastardly act, vindicates his devilish and dangerous views about
Islam. The killing of the UN staff, innocent and decent international civil
servants who have absolutely nothing to do with Terry Jones’s acts of infamy
thousands of kilometers away in the US; as heinous a crime as Terry Jones’s
actions, goes to vindicate Gambia government’s that dangerous criminals must
never be entertained under the guise of any freedom, as they endanger lives
of decent and innocent people by their crazy and evil fantasies.

This begs the question, if Terry Jones was an Imam in the same USA who
threatens to burn a copy of the Holy Bible because of his evil and dangerous
misconceptions about Christianity and calls for a Jihad against Christians,
would he have walked free from that platform and go about his business for
about five months still protected by the same freedom of expression and
eventually ends up carrying out his threat by burning a copy of the Holy
Bible? The answer definitely is No.  He would have been arrested on the spot
and taken off the streets at best; and at worst, he would have been sent to
Quantanamo Bay and locked up.  Why is Terry Jones being treated differently
from those Muslims that have similar views about non Muslims and the West?

We hereby call on the USA government to bring Terry Jones to justice as
quickly as possible.  Terry Jones’ actions have endangered the lives of
millions of American citizens who do not subscribe to his demented devilish
views about Islam thereby endangering US national security interest around
the world.  Should he be allowed to create such a dangerous risk to decent
and noble United States citizens in the name of freedom and rights. In any
civilized country today, there does not exist the right for anyone to put
the lives of the rest of the people at risk for his demented and evil
personal ego. Downplaying Terry Jones’s heinous crimes as an isolated
incident after the deaths of innocent UN and Afghan civilians is tantamount
to condoning his despicable behaviour.

We hereby call on the Islamic Ummah to be united and stand up to these
challenges and provocation.  Enough is enough.  Terry Jones’ burning of the
copy of the Holy Quran, our sacred book from our creator the Almighty Allah
should be the last wake-up call for Muslims to be united in defence of our
noble religion and the glorious Quran, as well as the seal of all prophets,
Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. The whole world
should remember that Adolf Hitler started his madness as an individual,
wrote his book showing what a dangerous and insane leader he wished to be,
but still he was not taken seriously, with devastating consequences for the
whole of human kind.  Is history going to repeat itself?  We hope not.

The Gambia Government, acting on behalf of and with the support of the
Gambian people would always defend Islam against all satanic forces lined-up
against the Muslim world.  It does not matter whether such forces of infamy
are Muslim or non Muslim. We also have sinister and devilish forces
disguised as Muslims that are hell bent on destroying our noble religion by
carrying out blatant and despicable acts of outrage against humanity in the
name of Islam.  Such evil forces are as detrimental and shameful to Islam as
Terry Jones is to Christianity in general and humanity in particular. True
Muslims and true Christians cannot be turned against each other by these
descendants of Satan.
Author: *Daily Observer*

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