Most of us know little about him except for his plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11. Christian and Muslim leaders, as well as the likes of General David Petraeus and Barack Obama have criticized this stunt.

On the national media, Jones has tried to present himself as someone who is simply trying to send a message to radical Muslims. He has even said that peaceful Muslims are free to worship. However, that seems to be purely PR from the last few weeks. Jones is aware of the extremist label he has placed on himself and appears to be trying to tame that down.

Jones has a YouTube channel, The Braveheart Show. There are some thirty odd videos there, most of them condemn Islam, but Jones has said enough to condemn the rest of us too.

Here are some Jonesisms that I gleamed from a couple of videos.

In the first video, Jones called discos immoral, but surprisingly did not call it “of the devil” which seems to be his catch phrase for everything he disagrees. Jones was not so kind to rap music. “I mean rap music is of the devil,” Jones said.

My favorite line is “Tolerance is destroying our nation.”

“We need some more, we need some more rightly placed intolerance.”

How Godly! All this country needs is a little “rightly placed intolerance.” This kind of self-absorbing hate is what brought people like Hitler to power. Now Jones’ version of Christian intolerance is going to be front in center for the world to see. Many are going to tar all Americans with that brush of hate.

I must confess I did not listen to all of the second video. I did hear enough to catch these comments about Islam, which completely disavows the more “moderate” Jones you will see in this CNN video.

Jones called Islam an “evil, perverted, stupid religion.”

And now people are supposed to believe that he wants to allow Muslims to practice their religion? That sounds a little too tolerant for Jones. It sounds as if the majority of Christians are too tolerant for Jones.

A year ago, a blogger from Idiots Walk Among Us claimed to have listened to Jones’ videos. He gleamed these quotes from those videos. Because the blogger did not identify which quote is on which video, it makes verification difficult. However, after listening to a couple of videos myself, these quotes seem entirely plausible as things Jones would say.

On Homosexuality:

“One man climbing up on another man and poking him is not God’s way.”

On Evolution:

“All of those pictures in textbooks where it shows the ape developing into a man, those are not true. Those are made up. There is no development that has been found. And if evolution was a fact, then we would somehow still be developing…When something is something, it stays that.”

On Evolution:

“A dog will never have puppy horses.”

On Obama:

“Our President Elect is one of the greatest mistakes that America has ever made.”

On the Church:

“The church is actually what I would call…it is in a retarded stage. The church has stayed about six years old. About six or eight years old. Now that’s all fine when you’re that old, but if you stay six when you’re sixty, then what do we call that? We call that retarded.”

On Muslims:

“In France in 39 years, France will become an Islam republic.”

On Fornifi..Forn…uh…Sex:

“Things as fornification (sic), premarital sex, uh…a very popular thing – adultery, those are things that God did not intend.”

Again, I’m not going to vouch if these quotes are correct, but they definitely sound in character for Jones.

A police report was filed against Washington, D.C., city council candidate Kathy Henderson when video cameras were seen of her taking down an opponent’s campaign sign outside a diner.

Henderson claims that the owner of a restaurant, Matt Ashburn, told her to take the sign supporting Harry Thomas, Jr., down. The restaurant owner denies telling her to do that. Instead he emphasized that he is a big supporter of Thomas.

“I knew D.C. politics were nuts but I didn’t know it was this crazy,” Ashburn said.

Henderson said, “Clearly I’m not stealing. I’m just replacing signs at Mr. Ashburn’s request.”

From what I’ve seen of the D.C. City Council and its characters like Marion Berry, it looks like Henderson would fit right in.

• Dennis Scranton, president of the Montana Big Sky Tea Party, on gays: “I think fruits are decorative. Hang up where they can be seen and appreciated. Call Wyoming for display instructions.” He has now been relieved of his position.
• The head of Sweden’s Left Party wants nursing mothers to pump milk out of their breasts so that they can go back to work earlier.
• In Arizona, Republican operatives recruited street people to run on the Green Party ticket in hopes of drawing votes from the Democrats.
• Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller was cited for fault in a three-car accident.
• Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman convicted of adultery, may be executed by stoning this week.
• North Korea is developing skilled computer programmers and getting foreign currency by developing and selling video games for export.
• A proposed ordinance in San Francisco would ban sitting or lying down on city sidewalks.
• Five states contribute more in revenue to the federal government than they get back: Minnesota, Connecticut, Illinois, Delaware and New Jersey. The five states that are the largest draw on federal funds are Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, New Mexico and West Virginia.
• The CIA may have stoned an entire French town with LSD in the 1950’s.
• Executions by lethal injection have been delayed in many states because of a shortage of sodium thiopental.
• A new rumor that Vladimir Putin may run for President of Russia again in 2012.

Jones’ argument for burning the book falls apart when he states that he and his church is only trying to send a message to radical Islam. He then states that he welcomes peaceful Muslims to worship without comprehending the insult he is making to those same people by burning their holy book.

This loony idea is akin to burning the Bible because of the activities of some Christian extremists and then welcoming peaceful Christians.

Just what type of message does Jones think that he is sending to the radicals? His action will only embolden them and justify their behavior because they will see all Christians and Americans as Jones.

He will simply be a recruiting tool for the terrorists.

Whatever happened to burning the effigies of radicals like Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar or even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

Jones thinks it is better to insult the whole one billion Muslims in the world while professing ignorance that it will offend those who are not radicals.