{"id":976,"date":"2010-09-10T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/quran-burning-and-non-burning-around-the-blogosphere\/"},"modified":"2010-09-10T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T09:03:00","slug":"quran-burning-and-non-burning-around-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/quran-burning-and-non-burning-around-the-blogosphere.html","title":{"rendered":"Quran Burning and Non-Burning Around the Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texarkanagazette.com\/news\/WireHeadlines\/2010\/09\/08\/Afghanistan_Hopk.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.texarkanagazette.com\/news\/WireHeadlines\/2010\/09\/08\/Afghanistan_Hopk.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Tall Skinny Kiwi (a blog that is new to me, and which I learned of from a really new blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/grebeliusredivivus.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/10\/depraved-christian-tshirts\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Grebelius Redivivus<\/a>) is encouraging bloggers to hold <a href=\"http:\/\/tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com\/tallskinnykiwi\/2010\/09\/blog-a-koran-day-sep-11.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cBlog\u00a0A Qur\u2019an Day\u201d<\/a> on September 11th.<br>CNN indicates that the <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/09\/10\/no-deal-made-to-halt-quran-burning-muslim-leader-says\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">alleged deal to relocate Park51<\/a> was never made.<br>Joel Watts asks if <a href=\"http:\/\/thechurchofjesuschrist.us\/2010\/09\/question-of-the-day-should-the-president-get-involved-in-the-quran-burning-issue\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheChurchOfJesusChrist+%28The+Church+of+Jesus+Christ%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the president should\u00a0be involved<\/a>.<br>Jim West views <a href=\"http:\/\/zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/10\/terry-jones-is-nothing-more-than-a-publicity-seeking-balloon-boy\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Terry Jones as a publicity-seeker<\/a>.<br>Steve Wiggins looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/sawiggins.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/10\/mere-typography\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">American ambivalence towards Muslims<\/a> and their cultures.<br>Randy Olds suggests holding a <a href=\"http:\/\/fromdamascustoemmaus.com\/instead-of-burning-qurans-how-about-trading-in-your-king-james-bible-day\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cTrade in your King James Bible Day.\u201d<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/mysticalseeker.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/knowing-everything-you-need-to-know.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mystical Seeker has a post<\/a> reflecting on the truth in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/man-already-knows-everything-he-needs-to-know-abou,17990\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a spoof article in <em>The Onion<\/em><\/a>, an article which has obvious relevance to this topic.<br>Unreasonable Faith has a <a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonablefaith.com\/2010\/09\/10\/quran-burning-round-up\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">round-up on this topic<\/a> as well.<br>Michael Halcomb has two posts on this topic, one in which he <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhalcomb.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/read-quran-sunday-reactionary-absurdity.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">calls the idea of a Sunday dedicated to reading the Qur\u2019an a \u201creactionary absurdity\u201d<\/a> and another in which he suggests <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhalcomb.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/51-worship-services-not-for-jesus.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">it constitutes a denial of allegiance to Christ<\/a>. I\u2019ve posted comments on both seeking to respond to his objections, and suspect that other readers here may find the conversation over there interesting.<br>Faithful Progressive discusses the <a href=\"http:\/\/faithfulprogressive.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/john-boehner-sarah-palin-and-hate.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">equivalence or otherwise of building and burning<\/a>.<br>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/09\/08\/ap\/celebrities\/main6845303.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Angelina Jolie speaks about the issue during a visit to Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8545621356113645373?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tall Skinny Kiwi (a blog that is new to me, and which I learned of from a really new blog, Grebelius Redivivus) is encouraging bloggers to hold \u201cBlog\u00a0A Qur\u2019an Day\u201d on September 11th.CNN indicates that the alleged deal to relocate Park51 was never made.Joel Watts asks if the president should\u00a0be involved.Jim West views Terry Jones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quran Burning and Non-Burning Around the Blogosphere<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tall Skinny Kiwi (a blog that is new to me, and which I learned of from a really new blog, Grebelius Redivivus) is encouraging bloggers to hold\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/quran-burning-and-non-burning-around-the-blogosphere.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quran Burning and Non-Burning Around the Blogosphere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tall Skinny Kiwi (a blog that is new to me, and which I learned of from a really new blog, Grebelius Redivivus) is encouraging bloggers to hold\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/quran-burning-and-non-burning-around-the-blogosphere.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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