Too bad this guy isn't available--
Posted on 09/07/2010 7:40:54 PM PDT by kristinn
Obama State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said on Tuesday that the planned protest by an obscure Florida Christian church in which Korans will be burned as "un-American" and "consistent" with the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by the Muslim group known as al Qaeda that murdered nearly 3,000 Americans and foreign nationals that day.
Crowley was commenting on plans by the fifty-member Dove World Outreach Center in Gainseville, Florida, to mark the ninth anniversary of 9/11 on Saturday by burning around 200 Korans on the church's property.
According to the State Department transcript of Tuesday's briefing, Crowley equated the protest burning of the Koran to the gruesome, fiery deaths of thousands of innocents at the hands of Muslim terrorists as he sought to bring public pressure on the church to cancel the protest:
"We hope that between now and Saturday, there’ll be a range of voices across America that make clear to this community that this is not the way for us to commemorate 9/11. In fact, it is consistent with the radicals and bigot – with those bigots who attacked us on 9/11."
The press corps at the briefing did not question Crowley about his equating burning the Koran with the 9/11 attacks. However, they did press him on the First Amendment rights of the church.
Crowley acknowledged those rights, but only as a formality before rhetorically bludgeoning the church and its pastor, Terry Jones, for the planned protest. In addition to equating the church with al Qaeda, Crowley called the protest "un-American", even as he acknowledged that he would not call burning the American flag un-American.
The Obama administration had no problems last year letting it be known that it appeased Muslims by burning Christian Bibles brought to Afghanistan by evangelicals. However, when it comes to the Koran being burned, the Obama administration has used its unique position to bring the weight of the government down on the church to defend Islam.
The White House, the Pentagon, the Justice Department and the State Department have all used the most harsh and menacing language in an effort to intimidate the church from going through with the protest.
Spokesmen for the church said Tuesday they still plan to burn the Koran on Saturday. Pastor Jones said he has taken to carrying a firearm after receiving more than one hundred death threats.
I have stated before that we shouldn’t do this, simply to keep from increasing the pressure on our troops.
But this is pure BullCrap. Same as 9/11? What a flipping moronic idiot. I cannot believe it, and this is from someone who pays attention to the BS they come out with on a daily basis.
Good God. This is appalling.
Go to Half Price Books instead, much cheaper and you could probably get more for your money!
I hope Crowley doesn’t mind while intelligent FReepers hold him to his own standards. Crowley doesn’t have much say because of the separation of church and state. He represents the state, and Pastor Jones, his own church body.
And unless we, as a nation and a people stand up to those terrorist threats and support this church against those terrorists, then that fate will belong to all of us who are not willing to submit to Allah.
Our justice department is busy issuing warnings to this church while terrorists are issuing threats which are being ignored by Homeland Security. It seems that Homeland Security is more intersted in coddling terrorists than in tracking them down and prosecting them when they make terrorist threats. I'm sure when Pastor Jones is targeted for death that our governent will say that he had it coming.
Obama and his minions are giving aid and comfort to the enemy which have threatened this minister with death.
Good for you.
BS, is nothing even close to the same. It’s a BOOK! Not human lives. Why can’t fools in America see that?
And why can’t they use this to point out, we protest in ways that may be provocative, but we do not kill people when we are insulted. And Christians have been repeatedly insulted. We do not kill people over it. Not so for Islam.
BINGO!!!!
i note FR’s Islam coddlers are strangely silent
Shame on us. Shame on us!! We are conservatives!! We all know regardless of what the MSM says we far outnumber these evil moonbats!! What the hell is wrong with us that we are allowing these people to ruin our country and enslave us while we sit back and watch! We certainly don’t have the courage our founders had.
The shame is the poor man probably had no idea who murdered him while those who defend the Jihadists have no respect for the victims of these murderous subhumans.
We have an Administration full of Socialists, Progressives, wannabe Communists and people who would be considered Traitors in another time of our Nation's History who have the audacity to share their idiotic opinions with their friends in the Sycophant Press, how G*D D*MN quaint.
These vermin make me sick, every last one of them.
P.J. Crowley said on Tuesday that the planned protest by an obscure Florida Christian church in which Korans will be burned as "un-American" and "consistent" with the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by the Muslim group known as al Qaeda that murdered nearly 3,000 Americans and foreign nationals that day.
P.M.S. Crowley is a bigger disgrace.
He’s a bastard of the first class.
Obama burns Bibles confiscated from Christians, and he brags about it.
Clearly, these people can no longer be taken seriously.
Excuse me.......we’d better take them very seriously.
The mooselimb in the White House has a problem with a book burning in Florida, but hangs “Mao” ornaments on his Xmas tree?!?
(I use the “Xmas” spelling, as it seemed more appropriate for the “Won”, who shouldn’t be celebrating Christmas, anyway.)
**Obama burns Bibles confiscated from Christians, and he brags about it**
Does anyone have a link to this story? I hadn’t heard about this.
Obama State Dept. Spokesman: Koran Burning Protest Same as 9/11 Attacks
Isn’t that sort of the point, in a lopsided sort of way.
Obama’s crew get more laughable every day. What morons.
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