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Newsweek backtracks on Koran claims ("People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said.")
The Australian ^ | 5/17

Posted on 05/16/2005 1:15:52 PM PDT by ambrose

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To: ambrose
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was forced to declare that mistreatment of the Koran was "abhorrent" to right-thinking Americans.

...forced to declare? From what I have seen of Condi, I think she would be genuinely upset at the desecration of anything like a flag, Bible, Talmud or Quran, etc. She respects, deeply, things that are sacred to good people.

41 posted on 05/16/2005 1:49:53 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Can you tell I've upgraded to Broadband?)
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To: yama426
To me, its grosser to smear menstrual blood on someone, but that's just me...

Another stupid MSM myth...

42 posted on 05/16/2005 1:51:25 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Can you tell I've upgraded to Broadband?)
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To: combat_boots

The words are holy. The book itself is simply a pile of paper and ink.


43 posted on 05/16/2005 1:53:09 PM PDT by ambrose (NEWSWEAK LIED .... AND PEOPLE DIED)
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To: ambrose

I'm sure I-kiss-em-off is just heartbroken over the folks he helped murder.


44 posted on 05/16/2005 1:53:22 PM PDT by mercy (never again a patsy for Bill Gates - spyware and viri free for over a year now)
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To: Fledermaus

Offhand comments like this can result in the deaths of innocent people.


45 posted on 05/16/2005 1:54:57 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Can you tell I've upgraded to Broadband?)
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To: TaxRelief

Yeah, all those Muslims reading FR might get upset! Geez.


46 posted on 05/16/2005 1:56:32 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Rats theme song: "Whatever it is...I'm AGAINST it!!!")
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To: Fledermaus
When Hindus attack...

47 posted on 05/16/2005 1:58:09 PM PDT by evets (God bless President Bush and VP Cheney)
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To: Mathemagician

I guess that means they won't buy newsweek magazine.


48 posted on 05/16/2005 1:58:24 PM PDT by Unicorn
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To: ambrose
We regret that we got any part of our story wrong and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the US soldiers caught in its midst,"

Yeah. I'm sure you're real upset you %*(^$#*)@!

49 posted on 05/16/2005 1:58:49 PM PDT by StarCMC (Free tagline courtesy of JesseJane!)
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To: ambrose

By analogy, then, the blood of Christ is just the blood of any other man.

In orthodox religion, to burn or destroy The Book is to destroy the Word of God. Ergo, in Christianity, we have the Ark of the Covenant, and the Word made flesh in Christ. The muslims claim la illa illa'ulla. There is no God but God.


50 posted on 05/16/2005 2:00:10 PM PDT by combat_boots (Dug in and not budging an inch. NOT to be schiavoed, greered, or felosed as a patient)
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To: ambrose

You know, a while ago a NY museum had an exhibition of Mary plastered in dung. And I remember an exhibit of a crucifix upside down in a jar of urine.

This really makes me mad! I think I'll go to NY, run around, scream, and kill people. /sarcasm off


51 posted on 05/16/2005 2:00:14 PM PDT by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
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To: RobRoy
Than you admit you just as foolish as Michael Isikoff is an oblivious, thoughtless jerk!

What you don't get you are not alone on this planet...
Michael Isikoff like your kind of thinking "I like to call a spade a spade and let the chips fall where they may."
Michael Isikoff WORDS costed innocent lives and tarnish the image of the US all for Michael Isikoff personal agenda to get Bush or what ever?????

To repeat explosive roomers that another nation sacred writtings were trashed or flush down a toilet (knowning many of that faith are fanatics was reckless....it should have been carefully examined and respectfully spoken about.....as not to cause harm to the innocent!

This is what is wrong with those in politics, corporartion and the media today's generation do not think about what they say could harm many......just from their free speech.....it is gift that this nation has but so many abuse it by their lack self-control as to weight the situation if I do or say this who or what could it effect.....

52 posted on 05/16/2005 2:01:05 PM PDT by restornu (“No president in American history understood the timber of the American character better than Reagan)
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To: Bigturbowski
It is not Newsweek's fault that the people in Afghanistan are idiots. You wouldn't see Christians reacting that way. The problem is the people that reacted like animals, not a mistake, if it was a mistake, by Newsweek.

Why don't you ask the people in Afghanistan to apologize? The people in Afghanistan will be murdering everyday once they get the internet and see what people have to say about islam online.

Maybe you think the USA should apologize for provoking 911?
53 posted on 05/16/2005 2:01:19 PM PDT by usa1776
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To: I still care

But you won't, because you're civilized...


54 posted on 05/16/2005 2:02:15 PM PDT by teawithmisswilliams (Question Diversity)
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To: Mathemagician
More damning evidence...


55 posted on 05/16/2005 2:03:28 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (The theory of evolution is the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century - Michael Denton)
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To: usa1776

I'm sure Chris "this war" Matthews is sooooo disappointed that this story was a bunch of BS.


56 posted on 05/16/2005 2:03:35 PM PDT by Rosemont
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To: Dallas59

Newsweekly World News!


57 posted on 05/16/2005 2:04:17 PM PDT by Liberal Classic (No better friend, no worse enemy. Semper Fi.)
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To: Snidely Whiplash

I'm really not sure why this particular mention would spark riots where others have not. Something doesn't feel quite right here, given the speed it moved. It's almost as though they were waiting for a signal to riot. But I'm probably reading too much into it.

This actually reminds me a little of the Rodney King Riots.

At any rate, while Newsweek isn't solely to blame (the people that spilled blood have to take responsibility for murder), Newsweek does have blood on its hands. This wasn't a mistake. They, just as the rest, have tried to defeat America from the start of this war. They have hyped any allegations that could hurt America and this Administration. They knew exactly what they were doing. If they were too stupid to realize people could die because of their political games in print, that is no excuse. People are dead.

I think those that murdered innocents should be hung, but I wouldn't be adverse to sending Isikoff and those directly involved in this story over to the M.E. to be held to account.


58 posted on 05/16/2005 2:04:54 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: beethovenfan

I wonder how many Bibles were incinerated at the WTC on 911? Think anyone even cared?


59 posted on 05/16/2005 2:04:59 PM PDT by PISANO (We will not tire......We will not falter.......We will NOT FAIL!!! .........GW Bush [Oct 2001])
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To: ambrose

The ones that are rioting are the radicals that are causing all the trouble in the world, they should be targeted for extermination!


60 posted on 05/16/2005 2:07:42 PM PDT by dalereed
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