Posted on 09/09/2010 11:20:56 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- FBI agents visited Thursday with a minister of a small Florida church that plans to burn the Quran on Sept. 11, as public safety became a paramount concern and President Barack Obama added his voice to the chorus of opposition.
Elsewhere, hundreds of angry Afghans burned an American flag and chanted "Death to the Christians" to protest the planned burning of Islam's holiest text.
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Interesting to see they have professional protesters over there too. Not surprising he can’t read or write.
Oh, the irony.
The terrorists who attacked our nation on 9/11 were, of course, fringe elements and we must be careful not to assume their actions represent those of all Muslims. We must be sensitive to The Other Nice Muslims who really mean us no harm. Really.
HOWEVER, if a group of Christians announces a plan to burn Korans, Muslims flood the streets chanting "Death to the Christians!"
**Yup. Send in the FBI, SWAT & Janet Reno.***
It is called a premptive strike. Catch them inside the church with the korans , kids, and Bibles, THEN TURN THE FLAME THROWERS ON THEM!
Then claim the korans were “accidently” destroyed trying to save them.
Of course,,, they went there to investigate the death threats, the ones that came in interstate commerce (telephone, mail, and internet) for political reasons?
That why you went there FBI?
Yup.
This is going to kick off a shit-storm the likes of which we have not seen in a long time. We have the PRESIDENT (usurper or not) of the USA involved in this now, the PRESIDENT, looking for ways to prosecute this guy. You just know there's some seething rage going on in that worm-drive he calls a brain.
The burning has not happened yet and muslims around the world are already burning flags and issuing threats of violence and death. The Brits used to say "a muslim is either under your boot or at your throat." Muslims show us every day that the British were right.
I expect some trumped-up charges for the pastor and his flock, just to put them in their collective places. I will not be surprised if the area is cordoned off and access denied to media and supporters. I'm sure the spin-meisters are hard at work already.
I suspect new "hate" legislation because of this stunt is forthcoming. 1st Amendment be damned, the government will save us from our hateful selves. Jackasses.
There’s no federal hate crimes law that touches something like this. Burning paper is burning paper ~ but the woodchipper idea looks like a good way to endrun aroud the Islamofascist regime at EPA.
You know that Holder will go after him!
Right after they visit Jews to tell them their existence incites Muslims. As if they didn’t know.
At this point, I don’t see where these kooks have any choice but to burn the Korans. It has been blown so far out of proportion that it has become a free speech issue that can’t be ignored. Intimidation from the FBI demands that the event happen.
Public safety is not the purvue of the FBI!!!!! Brown shirted gestapo is more like it.
That’s what I was thinking—is this going to be Ruby Ridge, Part 2?
America got punked.
An FBI visit? Wow what a bizzaro world we live in...
...just don’t upset any preferred voters.
I would say 5 years
Every American should fly a Flag on Sept 11....streets and streets of them! ....Let the flag be seen in opposition to them burning them...creeps!
I'm positive that the FBI could reprise their murderous Waco performance in Gainesville and be met with nothing but approval and applause from the left, the MSM, and the Ixlamic world.
And as far as I know, I’m not forced to fund the pastor’s silly exploits via the NEA.
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