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.
And the 3,000 or so "little Eichmann's" who were killed in the Twin Towers (not my quote - it's from some snooty, elitist liberal @$$hole college prof).
I guess if they were planning on burning three thousand
muslims, it would be the same. But their not.
I bet he’d say burning a flag is patriotic too.
I used to believe liberals were well intentioned. I no longer do. What liberals are doing with regard to Islam in America is nothing short of evil.
I would but the media will say look at the rise of korans being sold this is great so I will refrain
I think the victim's families and friends would disagree...
I see them going after this Church like they did in Waco.
Let me get this straight.
Government officials consider burning a book equivalent to slitting throats, taking over an airplane and aiming it at a building occupied by thousands of people, not once, not twice, not thrice but four times in one day?
A political statement protected by the Supreme Court as demonstrated by their condoning the burning of flags and bibles is suddenly the same as 9/11? This idiot should be fired on the spot.
I still have the images burned in my memory of all the muslims areound the world dancing in the streets and celebrating 9/11. I got to get past this to find any sympathy for muslims and I just can’t get there.
P.J. Crowley and the Obama administration can go (stuff) themselves.
Proof positive the Left are mentally impaired, or if you will that “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder”.
This entire Leftist scene belongs on the cutting floor.
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.
This is just wrong.It’s unexpectedly un-American.
This would be the State Department run by Hillary Clinton? What the he!! is wrong with the liberals and progressives? Why are they all sensitized to a cult which has vowed to either convert or murder us?
So far this nutcase church has been attacked by the commanding general in Afghanistan, the Attorney General, and the State Department. No doubt the Caliph in Chief Resident Omullah has ordered the public attacks on the planned burning of Korans on Sept 11 which coincides with the holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
Expect an assault on the church if they proceed.
Obama State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley>>>>>>
This bald headed stooge is an embarrassment. He comes across on TV as untruthful. An awful liar. The State Department is disrespecting Americans by not employeeing a better liar for spokesman
****Why are they all sensitized to a cult which has vowed to either convert or murder us?****
See my post #16.
They are so much alike it is seems by design to me.
****Why are they all sensitized to a cult which has vowed to either convert or murder us?****
See my post #16.
They are so much alike it seems by design to me.
I think someone should remind him of that very important fact.
wow, just wow. They really stepped in it this time. Equating 3000 lives with books
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