I begin this post with a disclaimer: Terry Jones, the Florida pastor (and I use the term very loosely) who insists on unnecessarily stirring up the muslims, is a nutcase. He is NOT interested in advancing the cause of Christ, but he IS interested in getting his name in the newspapers. Our response to him and his deluded followers should be to completely ignore him.
That being said, I found an interesting juxtaposition in the newspaper article concerning his planned protest at a Michigan mosque. He was jailed for refusing to pay a peace bond in order to have the demonstration, because the prosecutor felt he would "pose a threat to peace." There are all sorts of 1st Amendment arguments to be made here, but that's not really the point of my post.
Pictured above the article was a crowd of muslims at the site where Jones planned his protest. They were protesting Jones being allowed to hold his demonstration. My question is, were the muslims required to put up a peace bond? If they weren't, why weren't they? Is it OK for muslims to protest, but not OK for Jones to protest? I'm just looking for some consistency here. If Jones needs a peace bond, then so do the muslims.
"Pastor's jailing halts mosque protest plan." The Dallas Morning News; April 23, 2011; p. 2A.
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