Evangelicals expressed dismay over the deaths of several United Nations workers in Afghanistan, who were killed yesterday (April 1, 2011) in retaliation for last month's burning of a Quran by a fringe Florida pastor, the Christian Post website reports today.
"No matter how much we disagree and find abhorrent the actions of Terry Jones, responding in violence can never be justified," said Dr. Geoff Tunncliffe, chief executive officer and secretary general of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA).
Representing 420 million evangelicals, the WEA asked Muslim leaders on its website to call upon their communities to end the violence and "explain that the actions of this tiny extremist group who have burnt the Quran are absolutely condemned by Christians globally."
An unrepentant Jones said today that he was "not responsible" for the killings in Afghanistan. "They (Afghan protesters) used the Quran burning as an excuse to promote their violent activities," he said.
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I believe that the burning of the Quran in Florida under the direction of Pastor Terry Jones was indeed the cause for a retaliation of Afghan Muslims in deciding to kill several UN workers yesterday.
ReplyDeleteI would be surprised if Muslim extremists did not carry out more violent actions in the near future, because of the Quran burning in Florida.