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, therell 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.
This administration is out of control.
Or will Holder try to have the pastor stoned to death as called for under shariah law? Ya never know with this bunch..........
I saw video of her addressing this issue early this morning. She seemed enraged. We have to nominate a solid candidate this time around.
So....burning a book is equal to killing 3000 people?
Riiiiight!
I called Undersecretary McHale’s office and her male administrative assistant was kind enough to listen as I demanded Crowley’s resignation due to his comments. I read the comments to him and said (1) someone should instruct Crowley that “terrorists” is a more accurate word than “bigots” and (2) Crowley had insulted not only the victims and their families but every American. I reminded the admin assistant that the 9/11 victims were killed solely for the “crime” of being Americans and for going to work. I also pointed out to the admin assist that if Undersecretary McHale doesn’t deal with Crowley’s assinine and insulting comments that the blacklash will hit her as well. The admin assistant stated I’d been the only one to call so far.
Wanna know something else? The bio for McHale states she worked for the Discovery Channel when it started. So I requested that the admin assist ask her how it feels to have friends attacked by terrorists. It might give her a clue to our outrage.
Well done, Joyjoy!
But if they did, what would you call it? A good start?
Burning paper is equivalent to murdering thousands of people? Burning books is unAmerican? When did American leadership become so irrational? It’s like we’re dropping down in the evolutionary ladder as I type. Must we coddle stupid people as a Spock-Mom would coddle her two-year-old throwing a tantrum in a restaurant? We have a Dr. Spock foreign policy.
I would think that soaking the paper with kerosene or lighter fluid (NOT gasoline!) would produce a nice blaze.
This pastor and this church have a constitutional right, under freedom of speech and religion, to burn the koran, and anybody who says they don’t is an intolerant bigoted christianophobe.
On the other hand, building a mosque at ground zero needs to be called off immediately because it is: disgraceful, divisive, inolerant, idiotic and dangerous and will probably inspire violent attacks against Muslims.
Did you ever see a kerosene lamp or lantern? The paper serves as a wick, and is not consumed -- while the kerosene burns brightly. All you'll wind up with is a mostly-intact book that's blackened on the outside.
Without a generous supply of air, the packed sheets will hardly support combustion. Otherwise, the only alternative is to crumple up each individual sheet/page to increase the surface area exposed to the air...
One other way is to start with a big wood fire to make a large bed of coals -- then put the book atop the coals, leaving a bit of airspace so it doesn't smother he coals.
IOW, a closed book behaves much like a un-split hardwood log.
...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.
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Preach it, ‘cause that’s just what this is about. The Pastor may feel he is fighting a spiritual war against evil and I think he’s right, in that Americans must not allow nor be intimidated by Muslims and their goal of Sharia law.
“Obama State Dept. Spokesman: Koran Burning Protest Same as 9/11 Attacks”
Does that mean they’re in favor of building a Ground Zero Bible School?
Burn the Korans.
Repudiate the despot pedophile Muhammad in cartoon print.
Openly call out Islam for what it is - A religion of lies.
It is high time that Muslims start getting used to this type of behavior. Their disgusting double standards toward Christianity must be responded to in like in order to prove to them that they do not have any legitimacy over non-muslims.
Just maybe a dose of this form of sobering reality will take the fanaticism out of their sails to where violence, murder, and terrorism are neutered.
Christians who needlessly and wrongfully turn the other cheek to the point of becoming doormats have invited this islamic abuse.
Not really.
The FBI probably has marching orders from Pelosi to investigate all those anti-American protesters of the Islamic faith and eventual domination of the world.
Empire of the Ants.
Crowley uis a Useful Infidel; a buttboy for the ‘bama..
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