Palin Condemns Quran Burning, Likens to "Ground Zero Mosque"

CBS News - Political Hotsheet ^ | 2010-09-09 | Stephanie Condon

[rabscuttle385]

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin Wednesday evening decried a Florida pastor's plan to lead a Quran burning over the weekend, likening it to the plans to build a Muslim community center near Ground Zero.

"Book burning is antithetical to American ideals," Palin wrote in a Facebook note. "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."

[gogogodzilla]

She’s pretty smart on this...

For by drawing a parallel to the Ground Zero mosque, she will naturally get Islamic support for this message. Which she can then turn around and flip this issue back against the Islamics.

IE: Why are they building a mosque at Ground Zero if it’s just as offensive as the Koran burning. (Something that they’d now be on record as agreeing with.)

[Pox]

Silence is golden, but most politicians these days cannot resist the urge to be politically correct.

As much as I like Mrs. Palin, she is absolutely wrong about this issue, IMO.

[jacquej]

She has disappointed me, too.

Someone ought to send her the following video...

I am sick of hearing politicians/news anchors/brain-dead liberals saying that Islam is a “religion of peace”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w&feature=player_embedded

[Silentgypsy]

How about burning muslims? Just a suggestion. :)

[patriot08]

What next? She helps get McJuan re-elected, now this. More and more I'm becoming convinced she's just another RINO

[JPG]

Jessie Jackson said he wanted to snip them off but Sarah said he didn't even have any. As far as I'm concerned, Ms. Palin is doing just fine and I support her.

[Pox]

Don't get me wrong, I'm still of the opinion that she is an outstanding person who would be one of the best choices to lead the battle against marxism at this point in time, but IMO she does not have to weigh in on every single controversy facing this country. In this case, I simply believe she is incorrect with her statement.

Sometimes, “No Comment” is the best answer of all, IMO.

[HiTech RedNeck]

the lady has too much common sense. she sees two gratuitous provocations.

[smith288]

Bah. Burning Korans is stupid. As is the mosque at ground zero. Sarah is spot on and as an American, can give an opinion, when asked, about every single controversy this country faces. Saying “No comment” is you wanting her to agree with you or not say anything at all.

[JPG]

Absolutely NO way she could avoid a comment on this topic. Her ‘no comment’ would be shaped and twisted to mean everything negative the question posers would want it to mean. She handled this as well as could be expected by tying two separate actions together. She can't eat the whole moose in one bite but she can eat it one bite at a time.

[dfwgator]

Yes, it’s stupid. It’s even more stupid to waste more to two seconds even being concerned about it, and the Muzzies need to lighten up.

[Pox]

I disagree. How many people have paid the ultimate sacrifice to insure that American citizens have the right to express themselves in such a manner? More that I can count. *(yes, she has the right to express her opinion on whatever subject she sees fit)

No comment can be a useful response in a “no win” situation, but I would defend her right to say what she pleases, with my life if necessary, even though I may personally disagree with her position on a given subject. If she and her “handlers” believe that this was the best response for this controversy, so be it, but I personally disagree with that stance.

I am certainly not stating that she should agree with me or STFU. I hope that makes some sort of sense.

[Pox]

Mrs. Palin is a civilian, as are the majority of Americans. Aside from her political aspirations, there is no expectation of a mandatory response on any given subject from me, although I may be in the minority on that belief.

In the same breath, who is she, or anyone else in this country, to deny any American citizen the right to express themselves in this manner? She may feel that it is prudent to denigrate American citizens for expressing themselves according to their First Amendment rights, but I'm personally sick and tired of ALL politicians believing that it is their responsibility to tell us how we should think.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Try not to mind meld with liberals, who would ban everything they believed to be stupid. It is possible for any conservative to declare many things stupid without the slightest intention of banning them.

[Captain Kirk]

Both the mosque and Koran issues are examples of the silly politics of media symbolism rather than substance. Unfortunately, many conservatives seem far more concerned about the location of a mosque than they are about the plight of, for example, their fellow Christians who are being systematically cleansed courtesy of tax dollars from Iraq.

[JPG]

I appreciate knowing Sarah's thoughts on a wide variety of issues. She is not politically naive and is choosing her responses well and to great effect. The majority is with her on this one...having the right to doesn't necessarily make it the right thing to do. Pay attention or ignore her as you see fit...it's still a free country (for now).

[Nextrush]

Palin’s views are close to mine and I know evil things being done by Muslims should not be responded to with Koran burning.

When General George S. Patton was getting ready to lead amphibious landings in North Africa in 1942, he actually read the Koran.

Men like Winston Churchill read “Mein Kampf” and tried to warn the world about Adolf Hitler, often falling on deaf ears.

Americans should read the Koran and understand the threat posed by other people who read it and use it to launch campaigns of “Jihad” and ‘death to infidels’ etc.

[Siena Dreaming]

In the same breath, who is she, or anyone else in this country, to deny any American citizen the right to express themselves in this manner?

I haven't heard her or anyone else say the Koran burners don't have a right to do it.

They're basically just saying it's a dumb thing to do. And it's their right to say so.

[Captain Kirk]

Try not to mind meld with liberals, who would ban everything they believed to be stupid. It is possible for any conservative to declare many things stupid without the slightest intention of banning them.

Unfortunately, you are completely wrong. Many, many conservatives have acted like statist liberals on the mosque issue e.g. they are willing to use any means necessary to stop the owner from building it on his own land. Countless freepers (who proclaim, much like typical leftists, that property rights "are not absolute") have asserted to me that such pretexts as zoning and other violations of property rights be used to ban the mosque.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I would certainly favor the approach of using general public disfavor to dissuade the Moose from building a new complex with mosque on that spot. If it’s really intended as the diplomatic effort which it is being billed as, they’ll respect the public mood and change the location or give it up. If they’re being snotty nosed about it, they’ll reveal that in due time.