Hey Kevin, did you know Mohammad had 12 wives and his last one was nine years old?
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
Pastor's Comments on 'Pedophile' Muhammad Enrage Muslims
newsmax.com
An American Islamic group demanded today that the Southern Baptist Convention condemn "hate-filled and bigoted" remarks made by one of its pastors.
The Rev. Jerry Vines, pastor of First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla., told conventioneers Monday in St. Louis that many of America's problems were due to religious pluralism.
Pluralists "would have us to believe that Islam is just as good as Christianity, but I'm here to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that Islam is not just as good as Christianity," Vines, a former SBC president, told thousands of delegates during a pastors' conference.
"Islam was founded by Muhammad, a demon-possessed pedophile who had 12 wives - and his last one was a nine-year-old girl. And I will tell you Allah is not Jehovah either. Jehovah's not going to turn you into a terrorist that'll try to bomb people and take the lives of thousands and thousands of people."
Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Tuesday: "It's really unfortunate that a top leader in a mainstream Christian church ... would use such hate-filled and bigoted language in describing the faith of one-fifth of the world's population. This is the level of bigotry that requires a clear statement from the top leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention."
William Merrell, a spokesman for the SBC executive committee, said that the comments were made outside the actual meeting and that it was not the SBC's place to comment.
"The Southern Baptist Convention does not by habit renounce things as said in pastors' conferences," he said, though he did not "want to give the sense that we are not sensitive or caring about this issue."
In introducing Vines at a separate speech today, outgoing SBC president James Merritt said Vines was his "hero ... a prince of preachers." |
