Posted on 09/07/2010 7:40:54 PM PDT by 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 the Koran to the gruesome, fiery deaths of thousands of innocents at the hands of Muslim terrorists as he sought to bring public pressure on the church to cancel the protest:
"We hope that between now and Saturday, there’ll be a range of voices across America that make clear to this community that this is not the way for us to commemorate 9/11. In fact, it is consistent with the radicals and bigot – with those bigots who attacked us on 9/11."
The press corps at the briefing did not question Crowley about his equating burning the Koran with the 9/11 attacks. However, they did press him on the First Amendment rights of the church.
Crowley acknowledged those rights, but only as a formality before rhetorically bludgeoning the church and its pastor, Terry Jones, for the planned protest. In addition to equating the church with al Qaeda, Crowley called the protest "un-American", even as he acknowledged that he would not call burning the American flag un-American.
The Obama administration had no problems last year letting it be known that it appeased Muslims by burning Christian Bibles brought to Afghanistan by evangelicals. However, when it comes to the Koran being burned, the Obama administration has used its unique position to bring the weight of the government down on the church to defend Islam.
The White House, the Pentagon, the Justice Department and the State Department have all used the most harsh and menacing language in an effort to intimidate the church from going through with the protest.
Spokesmen for the church said Tuesday they still plan to burn the Koran on Saturday. Pastor Jones said he has taken to carrying a firearm after receiving more than one hundred death threats.
To equate it as such smacks of treason and Islamic infiltration.
Here are some random sources from an internet search:
I will not die under a Pedophile’s Death Cult, nor will my family, so here’s the deal.
GET OBAMA THE F OUT of the WH (impeach) and then sue every Administration member for un-American activities, including Soros and Pelosi.
They embrace and love it precisely because it attacks those things they hate... God-fearing, conservative, non-muslim Americans.
Watch for a Justice Dept. lawsuit. That’s all they seem capable of doing, filing suits against states and individuals that go against their agenda. Forget about going after those responsible for Ft. Hood, Ground zero mosque’s, etc.
Please God, let me wake from this national nightmare.
****Why are they all sensitized to a cult which has vowed to either convert or murder us?****
... you can feed the alligator hoping it will eat you last, but eat you it will ~ Winston Churchill
Email those pics to Obie and Hill and ask them to explain how 3,000 people dead compares to burning a pile of shit in Florida.
Thank you!!!
Big difference these clowns do not see. If I were to pile up a million korans and burn them all, it still in no way compares to killing 3,000 people.
Next time someone burns a Bible, I will wait for the statement from them (/s)
Other than agreeing that whoeverburned it had a First Amendarent right to do so, you will wait a long, long, long time. Ditto with burning or otherwise descreating an American flg, pissing on a picture of Jesus.
If Christians can take the offense of a “Piss Christ”, I think muslims everywhere are up to a test of some burnt korans.
Let’s see if they pass with flying colors like the Christians did......I know where I’ll place my bets.
no matter who Jones associates with or supports, it is his right to speak out, and it is wrong for him to be the target of islamic terrorists.
"Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together and burned them before all men and they counted the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed." Acts 19:19-20
In my view, the koran is every bit as offensive to God as books on magic and deserves to be burned.
Where was the outrage after the Fort Hood massacre? Oh right, the native Americans getting a shout out was the first order of business that day. Where was the outrage after the terrorist almost took down a passenger jet on Christmas? Oh, that turned into a big joke - now known as the underwear bomber.
Thats ALL they’ve got, “Moral Equivalence?”
Thats just Standard Leftist Boilerplate.
I might listen to General Petreus on this, but not to the AG.
It is downplayed because we're not supposed to notice the current takeover of the United States government. We're supposed to stay ignorant until it is too late to go back.
Hopefully people are waking up fast enough to stop this march away from the Constitution and western civilization.
It is necessary to get a legislative majority before WE can go after this cr*p. That means that you and your funny little friends have to vote Republican this year.
I knew Crowley when he was a Capt. in the USAF as a Public Affairs officer. He was an A$$hat then as well.
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