Jolie slams American church for plans to burn Quran
"I have hardly the words that somebody would do that to somebody's religious book"
The 35-year-old actress - who is currently in Pakistan, to help draw attention to the flood victims of the nation - took time out to speak about her disappointment at plans by the Dove World Outreach Centre to burn the religious book on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York City.
Angelina - who is the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - said at a press conference: "I have hardly the words that somebody would do that to somebody's religious book."
The book burning is being organised by Pastor Terry Jones of the anti-Islam, evangelical Christian church Dove World Outreach Center, in Florida.
Angelina also spoke about her sympathy for the people of Pakistan where 1,500 people have been killed and a further 20 million affected by the floods.
She said: "I was shocked especially by how high the flood waters went. In some of the people's houses, it was 9 feet high.
"There's lots of speculation about why this one has not gotten the attention it deserves. Even all of the wonderful coverage … is not getting the response that usually it's able to get."
Matodzi
Is this Terry bloke a real pastor? How can anyone who calls himself a priest incite violence like that? Not all Muslims are terrorists in fact he is behaving like a terrorist himself.Report Abuse
MissN
No matter how angry this pastor can be, the Quran is a religious book and he has no right to burn it. If he is true believer in God than the only things he needs to do is pray for these terrorist to stop the killings.Report Abuse
Mantsu
The one thing that really gets under my skin about Christianity is that we are so JUDGEMENTALand one of the things that the Bible states is that tho shall not judge. That revenge is the Lord's
I do not like preaching but this man saddens me. Its true that the devil can use all of us in soo many ways and we don't see it when he does. I pray that this priest does nt go through with this.
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Torso
"Know your enemy, know yourself, thats the politics, George Bush is way worse than Bin Laden is" dead prez. The pastor must go suck a nut or something with his dumb ass.Report Abuse
MTT
Terry wanya man,dats why I sometimes hate some christians because they think their religion is the only one that is good and shud be all over the world,nna ke grand ka ledlozi laka and am a very metrosexual guy you'll even think I gop to some of those so called "bazalwane"churches.Report Abuse
thapelo100
Terry,as much as his acts are stupid but still I kinda find him a bit funnyReport Abuse
Kingkaizer
You do not ridicule Islam and get away with it . I know that Bin Laden already has something planned for this stupid pastor. Do not be surprised if his church and house are bombed, by suicide bombers nogal.Report Abuse
oilthieves
only when the poor are smater than the rich will they get their fair sharejolie is right: if the mainstream media were civilised -the main issue would be pakistan, somalia, afghanistan
Q. so why have the shareholders and editorsof the mainstream media decided to spend hours of their precious coverage time on a pastor trying to incite hatred against another religion?
A. because they want to incite hatred against muslims,
and they want muslims to get angry, make mad protests, and make threats to kill (and they will be ready to film it and send it all over the world, with the message 'this is what muslims are like')
Q. the media operate in the interests of their shareholders, so how do their shareholders benefit?
A. the shareholders invested in the war against muslims. growing evidence shows the war was to steal oil and the mainstream media covered up this fact. the media cannot be trusted. they need to demonise the victims to restore some credibility
Also the israeli establishment have invested enormous sums to control the mainstream media. this media power is used to control politicians around the world but due totheir atrocities - they still do not control the public. So they need to demonise muslims as much as possible. to create an us and them situation (where the them are muslims) in their media war to back imperialism (where the victims are muslims).
Q. so how effective will their strategy be?
A. let's wait and see
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