Posted on 04/03/2011 3:20:59 PM PDT by tobyhill
Top U.S. officials in Afghanistan on Sunday condemned the burning of a Quran in the United States that sparked three days of protests in which more than 20 people died.
Burning the Muslim holy book "was hateful, it was intolerant and it was extremely disrespectful and again, we condemn it in the strongest manner possible," said Gen. David Petraeus, who heads the U.S.-led international forces in Afghanistan.
U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry said in a statement that Americans respect the Quran "and all religious texts and deplore any action that shows disrespect to any religious faith."
"At the same time, I want to emphasize, as have many Afghan leaders, that to attack and kill innocent people in response to the deplorable act of one individual is outrageous, and an affront to human decency and dignity," Eikenbery's statement said.
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Rights carry with them responsibilities. The pseudo-preacher knew that what he was doing would put our troops at further risk, and he did it anyway.
I have the legal right to do many things that are morally wrong. The reason I don't do them is that I am accountable to a moral law that supercedes the laws and rights of American citizens.
If I knowingly exercise a right that harms those who are putting their lives on the line to protect those very rights, then I am morally wrong in doing so.
And if I am a pastor, doing what I am doing in the Name of Christ, I am even more bound to do what is morally right.
regarding your post with link to the CNN article about the military burning the bibles, I love this line in reference to this act:
“Troops at posts in war zones are required to burn their trash, Wright said.”
Lt. Col. Mark Wright says this about the bible? Maybe CNN has taken it out of context as only CNN can print such a line with no hint of remorse or respect while they are falling all over themselves condemning the burning of the Quaran.
Good point,,, they actually said Hirohito WAS a god. And we sure didn’t respect that. If you arent even free to mock the beliefs of an enemy,,,, how on earth will you ever be able to kill them?
Right on for pointing out Karzai’s role in this. Isn’t it the same Koran from Indonesia to Morocco? But, as yet, nothing like it from anywhere but Karzaistan.
If you wrote in your book that our female troops were being required to wear scarfs instead of helmets to placate moslum terrorist’s feelings, no one would buy another book. They would say “Thats ridiculous, no way our military would do that to our women, no way our women would tolerate it and no way our liberal women’s groups would stand by and allow it.
“..Petraeus condemns Quran burning as protests rage on...”
And yet...1,000 Catholics Massacred in Ivory Coast
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2699560/posts
CatholicVote ^ | 4-4-11 | Thomas Peters
Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 4:22:40 PM by tcrlaf
This from Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit: At least 1,000 Christians were slaughtered this week in the Salesian Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus mission in Duekou, Ivory Coast by Muslim troops loyal to Alassane Ouattara. The state-run media has been slow to report the facts.
Sorry, General...I think you’re a great warrior, and a Patriot, but your condemnation is misguided.
Burning a book full of toilet paper is a lot less important than Christians getting slaughtered by these f***ing animal savages.
Burn one of the damned things every week.
It’s hard for me to guess at his motives - distancing himself from us and from the UN in preparation for our stated timetable of exit and for their leaving, following ours? He seems to me to be a dictatorial strongman in training, or something like that. I wouldn’t be surprised if at some point years from now we’ll start hearing about how we should have known what he would become, years ago, ie. now, and that he just has to be removed, by us of course because of our lapse - as our responsibility to the world...to the whole world.
Not hard at all. He's covering, with the help of a complicit media, for the Trophy Photos of dead Afghan Civilians that happened on his watch.
“Not hard at all. He’s covering, with the help of a complicit media, for the Trophy Photos of dead Afghan Civilians that happened on his watch.”
Who, Karzai? I was just talking about him alone now with Girlene, and that could be part of it, but is easily handed off to ‘the American imperialist occupiers’ by him. That might be part of what Petraeus is doing, it seems to me as well - ‘his watch’. Care needs to be taken though when ascribing motives to people - most of the time in my experience they can only be guessed at, even if guessing correctly is something you’re good at. Remember that old TV show, ‘just the facts, ma’am’?
Burning a book full of toilet paper is a lot less important than Christians getting slaughtered by these f***ing animal savages.
Agreed. I bet odumbi won’t ask the U.N. to go help the Christians in the Ivory Coast.
Indeed. God’s will be done.
And the enemies worsip was shut down.
Brother, you got that right. Dead center.
After all this is a war against Christendom that’s been going on since Islam was invented.
We don’t have a CinC. We have a sympathizer.
2012 can’t get here soon enough.
Some thought we should have executed the Emperor, but the smartest thing we ever did was let him live and let the Japanese see for themselves that there was nothing extraordinary about him.
We are also fighting for the enemy (moslems) in certain locations on this planet. The French with the un (un-Christian mandate), and NATO are backing moslems in certain areas while Christians are murdered by the thousands. I cannot figure it out. Maybe you can?
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