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  • Obama State Dept. Spokesman: Koran Burning Protest Same as 9/11 Attacks

    09/07/2010 7:40:54 PM PDT · by kristinn · 180 replies · 1+ views
    Tuesday, September 7, 2010 | Kristinn
    Obama State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said on Tuesday that the planned protest by an obscure Florida Christian church in which Korans will be burned as "un-American" and "consistent" with the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by the Muslim group known as al Qaeda that murdered nearly 3,000 Americans and foreign nationals that day.Crowley was commenting on plans by the fifty-member Dove World Outreach Center in Gainseville, Florida, to mark the ninth anniversary of 9/11 on Saturday by burning around 200 Korans on the church's property.According to the State Department transcript of Tuesday's briefing, Crowley equated the protest burning of...