[Wiz]

Our military patriotic hero Gen. Petraeus and boots on ground in Afghanistan denounces the move as risking American lives in America and unpatriotic, and our guidance of faith, the Vatican denounces the move as outrageous, grave move, or apostate worth excommunication in more straight words, which the Vatican may say the move is against Christian faith and its purity. I am interested what is the position of Free Republic moderators, and the guidelines on posts and replies which may violate rules depending on how the moderators view the issue. I am also interets in voice of Catholic and Protestant fathers and priests about the denouncing of the move from Vatican on this issue, which support of the Dove World Outreach Center may be denounced as apostate from the Vatican, and also interested in voices from our troops about Gen. Petraeus that denounced as risking American lives in Afghan, which might also be sought as traitors and unpatriotic from our brave patriots fighting in Afghan.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Vatican: Burning Quran is outrageous, grave move"

Yep its a stupid move.

Its also protected by the First Amendment and last time I checked the Constitution is still the law of the land. (unless of course activist judges override it with unconstitutional rulings.)

[a fool in paradise]

Merkel to honor Mohammed cartoonist at press award
reuters.com ^ | Sep 8, 2010 | Stephen Brown and Knut Engelmann
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2585383/posts?

“German Chancellor Angela Merkel risked angering Muslims by speaking at an awards ceremony on Wednesday for a Dane whose cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed provoked sometimes violent protests by Muslims five years ago. The 75-year-old cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose drawings of Mohammed that offended Muslims worldwide first appeared in Danish paper Jyllands-Posten in 2005, was due to receive a prize on Wednesday evening at a conference on freedom of the press...”

[CynicalBear]

The Vatican giving credibility to Pagan Islam as a religion seems a dangerous stand given the Bibles clear discription of how God views Pagan religion, practices, books, images etc.

[SuziQ]

The Vatican is right. Just imagine how we feel when we see a Bible defaced, or a cross in a jar of urine.

WE may not agree with the Muslim faith, but that doesn't mean it's right to desecrate what THEY consider holy.

This Koran burning is a very STUPID move on the part of that allegedly Christian pastor.

[HarleyD]

I'm with Lurker. People are wringing their hands over what will happen if they burn the Koran. How many Muslims do you see wringing their hands over what people will say if they build a Mosque at Ground Zero? Frankly, if every time you draw a cartoon about Muhammad or you write something that is against the Muslim faith you're going to get a death threat, then perhaps we need a little bit more Koran burnings.

I would not personally burn the Koran even though the text advocates killing Christians. (How about someone reading what it states.) That aside, let's see the Sudan or Egypt or Saudi Arabia open up to Christian tolerance if they expect us to open up to Muslim tolerance. There have been far more Christians executed in Muslim countries then there have been Korans burned in Christian countries.

[a fool in paradise]

Saudi Arabia Desecrates Hundreds of Bibles Annually (Saudi Institute Friday, 20 May 2005 by Zachary Liben)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1410190/posts

Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:07:42 AM by paltz

Washington DC - The Saudi government burns and desecrates hundreds of bibles its security forces confiscate after raids on Christian expatriates worshiping privately or at border crossings.
As a matter of official policy, the government either incinerates or dumps bibles, crosses and other Christian paraphernalia.

Hundreds of Christian worshipers are arrested every year by Saudi police in raids on their private gatherings. Bibles, crosses and printed materials are confiscated and later burnt or dumped into trash. Bibles and other Christian paraphernalia found with travelers into the country are confiscated and destroyed.

Although considered as holy in Islam and mentioned in the Koran dozens of times, the Bible is banned in Saudi Arabia, and is confiscated and destroyed by government officials.