There are so many things they can be used for.
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.
Further proof that to leftists, being a racist is the most heinous crime known to man.
Nooooo...
“Tell the feds to get bent. Burn 2000 korans. Burn 10000. Use them to light the fire at a pork barbecue.”
And taint perfectly good pork? No thank-you.
Moral equivalency alert.
This is just wrong.It’s unexpectedly un-American.
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Yet it’s just what one would expect the Obama regime to do and say.
I wonder if the gov’t is still funding grants to artists who put religious objects into jars of urine. I wonder if the “prophet” knows how to swim? (piss be on him)
It's even worse! They're white Christians!
Better we kill islamists en masse on the battlefield. Then see who cares for their stupid book.
OMG this idiot should be forced to resign....
Does anyone in this White House even know what happened on 911 or is it because their boy king was not in charge it therefore is nothing of significance...
I am reminded of the harsh language used when an attempt was made to bring a down a plane last Christmas. (Do I even need the sarcasm tag?)
So does this mean that the Obama administration is going to declare war on Gainesville, Florida?
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Is this a rhetorical question? Are you being facetious.
Because I really believe and expect Obama will send his DOJ goon squads to kick some butt on this naive little pastor.
Hey - If Obama has no problems with ignoring the laws in Arizona - then why should he worry about silly little things like Free Speech and Freedom of Religion?
“Islam is a violent subjugating political cult. No wonder the left loves it.”
Yeah, until they have to actually live under it. They would get a rude awakening. If they spoke out, beheading or worse.
“Same as 9-11 except for the airplanes, right P.J.?”
And 3,000 dead. Now, if he wants us to be the same.........
Well, tell me when the muslims start jumping out of the White House in flames.
Until then shut up - you bore me.
Hey. "PJ", are 3,000 people going to die when the book of evil is burned? Well, are they?
“The State Department is disrespecting Americans by not employeeing a better liar for spokesman”
The number of unemployed “progressive” politicians looking for new jobs in November will serve as a wake-up call;)
Yep - in this doofus’ mind, the burning of a book is equivalent to the cold-blooded murder of over 3000 of his countrymen. I don’t know enough about the pastor doing this to figure out where he is on the Fred Phelps scale, but we sure can figure out just how much (yeah) the 9/11 deaths mean to Team Obama . . .
****Yeah, until they have to actually live under it. They would get a rude awakening. If they spoke out, beheading or worse.****
I’d bet that the left would go ahead and off the mullahs, and blame it on the right.
Sure, it’s the same, minus the 3000+ deaths and billions of dollars lost.
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