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So we've got Palin, Flipper, Obama, the FBI, the mayor of Gainsville, Ahmadinejad, etc all browbeating this guy. They say politics makes strange bedfellows.

Trying to remember what Reagan said about Salman Rushdie.

1 posted on 09/09/2010 11:39:45 AM PDT by pissant
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Maybe un-American if the government is doing it, but it is free speech and very American if a private individual does it. Palin is wrong on this one.


2 posted on 09/09/2010 11:41:31 AM PDT by wolfman23601
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No, no little Missy.

Don’t got there.


3 posted on 09/09/2010 11:41:59 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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Hey! This could be a new tactic. I’m going to call the news for a press conference. If I do not get agreement that the stoning of the Iranian woman will not occur, AND that the American Spies caught in Iran will be returned, I shall wipe my ass daily with one page of the Qur’an at a time. Daily press releases following each dump/wipe will be issued until my demands are met!


4 posted on 09/09/2010 11:42:01 AM PDT by Gaffer ("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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By the way, we’re getting over the “being sensitive” stuff.

Didn’t work.


6 posted on 09/09/2010 11:43:33 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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Considering Rushdie is a British citizen and was a London resident when Satanic Verses was published, why is that on point?


8 posted on 09/09/2010 11:43:39 AM PDT by cammie
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"Trying to remember what Reagan said about Salman Rushdie. "

Did he say anything? Satanic Versus weren't written until late '87 or '88, and I don't believe the fatwa (sp?) was issued by the Supreme Leader until sometime after Reagan left office.

Maybe he said something, but it probably wasn't as President.

9 posted on 09/09/2010 11:44:34 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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Actually Palin posted to Facebook yesterday afternoon.


11 posted on 09/09/2010 11:45:32 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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I don’t like what the guy is doing either.

But I swear the Obamists are doing everything they can to make me sympathize with him, sending in the FBI to harrass him, and getting his website shut down.

If he has freedom of speech to say what he says, his critics have the same freedom to criticize him. Thats fair. But attacking his right to say it is beyond the pale in my view.

Something like a dozen aid workers were killed in Afghanistan, what, a week ago? because they were Christians. The Obamists didn’t have anything to say about it, which leaves them very little room to speak now. They’re all for the Victory Mosque which, again, leaves them no room to speak now.


13 posted on 09/09/2010 11:46:19 AM PDT by marron
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Methinks Sarah should keep her mouth shut on this one.

I’ll wait until that mosque gets built (it will) and then burns down (it will).

And I’ll cheer and throw a party.

To all the libs to whom this offends, shove it up your smelly Obamahole.


14 posted on 09/09/2010 11:48:15 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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What about burning Al Gore’s book?

I say, if he owns it and wants to burn it, no biggie


15 posted on 09/09/2010 11:48:22 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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Big difference in her message: she is NOT saying don't do it because it will possibly harm Americans:

"Book burning is antithetical to American ideals. People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation – much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

I would hope that Pastor Terry Jones and his supporters will consider the ramifications of their planned book-burning event. It will feed the fire of caustic rhetoric and appear as nothing more than mean-spirited religious intolerance. Don’t feed that fire."

She isn't worried about the violence of it - she is not taking a fearful stance. I happen to agree with her...especially as she works in a shot at the mosque ...

16 posted on 09/09/2010 11:48:40 AM PDT by jessduntno (Flush the Grand Old Potty. Change it top to bottom. Conservatives only.)
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So, he called out Sarah and Newt by name! Who is this guy?


18 posted on 09/09/2010 11:49:50 AM PDT by Genoa (Titus 2:13)
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Saudi Arabia Desecrates Hundreds of Bibles Annually
Saudi Institute ^ | Friday, 20 May 2005 | by Zachary Liben

http://www.arabianews.org/english/article.cfm?qid=175&sid=2

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.

...The American State Department had no comment on this issue.


19 posted on 09/09/2010 11:50:06 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Saudi Arabia desecrates hundreds of seized bibles annually. Obama, when are you going to speak out?)
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The media is accidentally revealing that they think Islam is a violent religion by their assertion that this act by a nut job will cause world-wide violence.

A non-violent religion (ie: Quakers) would not get violent over something like this.

Hence - Islam is a violent religion... or so the media is admitting.


21 posted on 09/09/2010 11:50:22 AM PDT by Noamie
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He’s in a “Rush to Die”! Or was that SNL?


28 posted on 09/09/2010 11:53:45 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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Why do you do such scummy things? Is cutting that article off where you did supposed to endear people to your position or is it just that the people who follow you and agree with you are such blind, moronic, followers, that they won’t bother to investigate for themselves what the rest of that sentence actually says?


29 posted on 09/09/2010 11:53:50 AM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed.)
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Yep, let’s make that mountain out of a molehill even higher.


31 posted on 09/09/2010 11:55:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
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So what's your point pissant, other than an opportunity for you to post another hit piece about Palin.

Palin is saying nothing different that what I have heard every single conservative pundit and politician say. The Quran burning is stupid.

And your idol Duncan Hunter - he's is saying burn baby burn? I don't think so.

34 posted on 09/09/2010 11:56:53 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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Sorry, Sarah, but I disagree with you on this one. Was she against our military burning Bibles? If so, I missed it. I don’t give a rat’s a$$ about the sensitivities of muslims.


37 posted on 09/09/2010 12:00:16 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012 (Proud Infidel)
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38 posted on 09/09/2010 12:00:35 PM PDT by MtnMan101 (THE PROBLEM WITH SOCIALISUM IS THAT YOU EVENTUALLY RUN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY)
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