Thank you Pastor Terry Jones!

Kalau kita lihat, dibakarnya Al Qur'an (apakah itu English translation atau the Arabic text) oleh pastor tersebut, menunjukkan point sikap kebencian terhadap Al Qur'an yang dianggap sebagai "Book of Hate". Mengapa mereka sampai beranggapan sampai seperti itu?

Saya masih ingat pastor Terry Jones yg diinterview di TV ditanya apakah dia sudah membaca Al Qur'an keseluruhannya? Dia bilang belum, yg dia baca hanya ayat2 "kebencian" (yang bisa disebarkan oleh Islamophobes) dan ayat2 yang berbeda dengan keyakinannya tentang Yesus. Ini menunjukkan masih banyak yang perlu dilakukan dalam usaha dakwah kepada orang2 tersebut, juga orang2 non-Muslim di Amerika in general.

Mungkin setiap dari kita bisa merenungkan kembali apa saja yang bisa kita kontribusikan dalam usaha dakwah ini dalam lokaliti tempat kita tinggal, sehingga event2 kebencian seperti itu bisa dihindarkan in the future...

Thank you Pastor Terry Jones

For your service to Islam!

1.       Thanks for making Quran a bestseller. More copies of Qurans and  were sold on Amazon, local and online Islamic stores, thus providing humanity an opportunity to read and ponder over God's guidance for  humanity.

2.       Thanks for the business.  More people bought Islamic literature, along with the Quran, generating extra revenue for the Islamic stores. 

3.       More individuals visited the mosques to attend Muslim open houses and Islam presentations, thus receiving the  wonderful message of Islam.

4.       More individuals called on the GainPeace's outreach hotline 800-662-ISLAM and inquired about the faith of Islam, giving Muslims an opportunity to explain Islam to our fellow citizens.  You generated more publicity for Islam, then all our past outreach campaigns combined. 

5.       More people Googled the words 'Islam' and 'Quran'.The more that you spoke about Islam and the Quran, more people came to Muslim websites to learn about the truth of Islam.

6.       Libraries were busy loaning out copies of the Quran. Yes, libraries across the USA, Canada and Europe were busy lend out copies of the Quran to its patrons.   

7.       Thanks for saving the Muslims advertisement dollars.  The free publicity to the words 'Quran' and 'Islam', that you gave, Muslims could have spent millions of dollars but couldn't have generated the same publicity and attention of the media, and thanks to you, the word of God (the Quran) became a household word.

8.       Thanks for waking up the Muslims.  Muslim all across the world are now more passionate about the wonderful and peaceful faith of Islam and are eager to share it with their neighbors, colleagues, friends and humanity.

9.       Thanks for encouraging more people to embrace Islam.  We had more people calling, learning and embracing Islam in the past few weeks, then we ever had since the last 40 years.   

10.   Thanks for uniting the people of conscience, the Muslim, the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, and the atheist, on the common platform of goodness, love and tolerance and against hatred, bias and bigotry.

Pastor Terry Jones, we pray that you actually read the Quran with an open mind and heart and ponder over its message of the oneness of God. If you love Jesus, follow the religion of Jesus, the religion of Jesus was Islam, submission to the The Creator. May God, enlighten you to the truth of Islam and that you start worshiping the One Creator as was preached and practiced by Prophets Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace be upon them.  Welcome to Islam.

Dr. Sabeel Ahmed

Director

The GainPeace Project, USA