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Obama implores minister to call off Quran burning
Yahoo news ^ | September 9, 2010 | Associated Press

Posted on 09/09/2010 6:54:18 AM PDT by Gennie

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is exhorting a Florida minister to "listen to those better angels" and call off his plan to engage in a Quran-burning protest this weekend.

Obama told ABC's "Good Morning America" in an interview aired Thursday that he hopes the Rev. Terry Jones of Florida listens to the pleas of people who have asked him to call off the plan. The president called it a "stunt."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2surrender2islam; 4thecommongood; basshatotus; imamobama; islam; kenyanvillageidiot; koran; mullahobama; muslims; muslimterroristpos; obama
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To: Steamburg

I guess we see things differently.


121 posted on 09/09/2010 7:52:40 AM PDT by stuartcr (Nancy Pelosi-Super MILF.................................Moron I'd Like to Forget)
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To: SMARTY

true


122 posted on 09/09/2010 7:53:15 AM PDT by Ancient Drive (DRINK COFFEE! - Do Stupid Things Faster with More Energy!)
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To: longtermmemmory

The Devil does not like to be mocked.


123 posted on 09/09/2010 7:53:21 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: Earthdweller

Absolutely a stunt. No one that really just wanted to burn the books, would have a need to tell the world weeks before he did it. He would simply do it, record it, and put it out for everyone to see and claim responsibility. The guy has played practically the whole world with this stunt. I bet he’s getting donations from a lot of places outside his congregation.


124 posted on 09/09/2010 7:55:27 AM PDT by stuartcr (Nancy Pelosi-Super MILF.................................Moron I'd Like to Forget)
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To: Gennie

Obama implores Muslims to control themselves”

There, fixed it.


125 posted on 09/09/2010 7:55:55 AM PDT by headstamp 2 ("My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter")
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To: Gennie

If only the president would use as much energy to condemn the ACTUAL murders, rapes, stonings and hangings committed by avid practitioners of the Cult of Death.

Symbolism over substance. The book burning is symbolic. No actual people are injured. The daily violence is real. Actual people are killed, raped, stoned or hanged.


126 posted on 09/09/2010 8:09:40 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Annoying liberals is my goal. I will not be silenced.)
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To: Gennie

Will Obama order the military to stop burning or otherwise destroying Bibles?


127 posted on 09/09/2010 8:11:28 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("People are losing jobs because of DemocRATs" Rush Limbaugh 9/8/10)
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To: longtermmemmory
I understand and agree.

I was responding exclusively to the noob's comment.

128 posted on 09/09/2010 8:27:32 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: stuartcr

i think the guy is an idiot but why is zero getting involved in this??? (besides the obvious)....

he better make statements like this every/any time they deface a Christian symbol under the guise of “art” or burn an American flag...


129 posted on 09/09/2010 8:30:08 AM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Gennie

Pastor May Halt Koran Burning “If Obama Asks”
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/PM-Joins-International-Condemnation-Of-US-Pastor-Terry-Jones-Plans-To-Burn-Copies-Of-Koran-On-9-11/Article/201009215722844?f=rss


130 posted on 09/09/2010 8:31:08 AM PDT by Genoa (Titus 2:13)
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To: Gennie
When Christians and Jews start raping; stoning; lashings; dismembering; genital mutilation; enslaving women; and mass murdering in the name of their god because someone burns a Bible or Torah, give me a call.

Islam is theocratic political system that is incompatible with Western values (which has given countless peoples liberty and opportunities). I don't trust any Muslim. The so-called "moderates" are often found not to be so moderate. We find that almost every day.

Disclaimer: I am a deist and don't subscribe to any religion. I don't need anyone to remind me "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Simple human compassion and empathy, however it developed or was created, is enough for me to appreciate the value of that axiom. If you don't have those traits and cause or support the above atrocities, you are not human and simply a sentient being and need to die early.

We all die, so don't bother me with "every human life is worthwhile" bleeding heart BS. Think MS-13, Bloods, Crips, Mongols, al-quida, Taliban, et al. Let them ALL just vaporized yesterday and let the rest of us live in peace.
I'm all out of "give a damn".

131 posted on 09/09/2010 8:33:06 AM PDT by A Navy Vet ( An Oath Is Forever.)
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To: God luvs America
>...he (Obama)better make statements like this every/any time they deface a Christian symbol...<

Obama team asked Georgetown U to cover Jesus’s name.

http://churchmousec.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/obama-team-asked-georgetown-u-to-cover-jesuss-name/


132 posted on 09/09/2010 8:40:31 AM PDT by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: jboot

Burning books is not a part of American tradition. We believe in free speech and the right to read what we wish.


133 posted on 09/09/2010 8:41:06 AM PDT by twigs
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To: BenLurkin

” I’m guessing that this guy down in Florida is not a big fan of Hussein. “

LOL!


134 posted on 09/09/2010 8:41:48 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (((.Go troops! " Vote out RINOS. They screw you EVERY time" Jim Robinson)
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To: God luvs America

Because he probably has an opinion, like everyone else, and if he didn’t, freepers, along with lots of other people, would say he’s not saying anything about it, because he hates America. Also, his general said it would be bad for the troops and if he didn’t back up his general, then people would say he hates our troops. He probably won’t say it about other religious symbols, because they do not generate anywhere as near as much interest/publicity/emotions, as this.


135 posted on 09/09/2010 8:42:45 AM PDT by stuartcr (Nancy Pelosi-Super MILF.................................Moron I'd Like to Forget)
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To: Gennie

It’s funny, isn’t it, how every single time isslam deliberately provokes us, and they do so on a regular basis, we’re told to simply roll over in the name of “tolerance” yet, on the very rare occasions when somebody has the nuts to turn the table and provoke right back, we’re being the “unreasonable” ones.

Hardly a day goes by where we’re not lectured by the Liberal Media and various and sundry other blockheads who think themselves our “betters” on how we need to “understand the other side’s grievances” and put their behavior in “cultural context”, behavior that is always attributed to an infinitesimally small extremist minority, even when they march in the millions in cities all over the world, pillaging and murdering as they go.

And then, when somebody on our side has the testicular fortitude to say “enough is e-NOUGH!” and see how that “minority” likes being spat in their faces, nobody is interested in “why we hate them”, we’re just being fanatical bigots who really ought to be locked away lest we provoke the allegedly peaceful religion of isslam to violence. Anybody see a logical disconnect here? If not, please go to the back of the class and shut up while those of us with a brain try to have a conversation.

When we commit a provocation that amounts to burning a handful of books, we invoke the wrath and hectoring of every pea-brained blowhard “enlightened” chowderhead out there yet, when they commit the provocation of wanting to erect a victory monument to the “religion” in whose name 3,000 of our countrymen were brutally murdered right next door to the place they were murdered, not a peep comes from those clownshoes except for calling anybody who thinks it’s insensitive all of the worst names they can think of.


136 posted on 09/09/2010 8:43:00 AM PDT by bt579 (Afghanistan is Barack Obamas Vietnam)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Thanks. That was long overdue.


137 posted on 09/09/2010 8:46:45 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (((.Go troops! " Vote out RINOS. They screw you EVERY time" Jim Robinson)
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To: bt579
If I spit on it and then put a quran in a jar of urine
would the media excoriate me for being insensitive to the feelings of others, unnecessarily provocative, idiotic and disgraceful?

Judging from their coverage of the Florida preacher who plans on burning a quran the answer is yes, they would.

Would they respond in the same way if I announced that I was publically going to spit on and put a crucifix in a jar of urine? Well, we already know the answer to that one.

138 posted on 09/09/2010 8:49:32 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: jboot

“I was on the fence before, but now I definitely support the pastor. Burn ‘em bright!”

I think we should make it a symbolic national event.


139 posted on 09/09/2010 8:50:15 AM PDT by Sophia777
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To: Gennie

Oh suuuuuuuuuuuure, Obama wants us to listen to him and he doesn’t feel the need to listen to us? What a flat out total HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!!!!!


140 posted on 09/09/2010 8:50:40 AM PDT by ducttape45
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