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Obama State Dept. Spokesman: Koran Burning Protest Same as 9/11 Attacks
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 | Kristinn

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: doveworld; hillary; hillaryclinton; impeachobama; islam; koran; liberalfascism; marxism; muslims; nohillary; obama; obamaburnedbibles; pjcrowley; whoisjohngalt
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To: Cubs Fan

>I used to believe liberals were well intentioned. I no longer do.

you & me both, brother.


61 posted on 09/07/2010 8:12:00 PM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: kristinn

It may take some doing, but the next president needs to fire the entire staff of the State Department and purge out all the Islamophiles, anti-Semites, and anti-Americans. No previous administration has sought to do this. This goes back to the days of FDR and perhaps beyond.


63 posted on 09/07/2010 8:12:33 PM PDT by Tuxedo (Up against the wall)
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To: kristinn

Does he feel the same way about the bible burnings they’ve had?


64 posted on 09/07/2010 8:14:00 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: kristinn; All

“Crowley was commenting on plans by the fifty-member Dove World Outreach Center in Gainseville, Florida”

What is this person thinking? The more they raise a fuss the worse they make the situation. If the administration thinks this is such a bad thing, then they should ignore it and stop giving it press. This is a FIFTY member group. This isn’t exactly high profile. The administration and General Petraus had given this group status by acknowledging them. And a ridiculous comparison between burning books verses killing innocent people is over the top.

I think it foolish to burn Korans...it doesn’t make you look that smart. However, if the administration trys to stop them...they are just as wrong themselves. There is just way too much wrong thinking going around here.


65 posted on 09/07/2010 8:15:33 PM PDT by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: kristinn

and from Hillary’s speech today.

We sit down together for this meal on a day when the news is carrying reports that a pastor down in Gainesville, Florida plans to burn the Holy Qu’ran on September 11th. I am heartened by the clear, unequivocal condemnation of this disrespectful, disgraceful act that has come from American religious leaders of all faiths, from evangelical Christians to Jewish rabbis, as well as secular U.S. leaders and opinion-makers. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. Many of you know that in 1790, George Washington wrote to a synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, that this country will give “to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”


66 posted on 09/07/2010 8:15:35 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: kristinn
It's clear: Every morning, Obastard wakes up and says, "How can I REALLY piss off every last American, TODAY????"

It's obvious he's throwing November on purpose.

67 posted on 09/07/2010 8:16:34 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union, then we became them." Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: Rebelbase

Perhaps everyone should chip in and burn a quran on the 11th.


68 posted on 09/07/2010 8:17:38 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
The idiot thinks it's un American to burn the koran but it's not un American to burn our flag. We are in big trouble if we have assholes like this working in the justice department. He sounds almost as stupid as his two bosses Holder and Obama.
69 posted on 09/07/2010 8:18:49 PM PDT by peeps36 (Obama, The Worst President In American History, By Far)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
The idiot thinks it's un American to burn the koran but it's not un American to burn our flag. We are in big trouble if we have assholes like this working in the justice department. He sounds almost as stupid as his two bosses Holder and Obama.
70 posted on 09/07/2010 8:18:49 PM PDT by peeps36 (Obama, The Worst President In American History, By Far)
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To: kristinn

Another clinging to our guns and bibles, suing Arizona, stupid cops arresting gates moment. Bambi will be 60% strongly disapproving before we know it.


71 posted on 09/07/2010 8:18:55 PM PDT by libbylu
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To: kristinn

“No comparison.
The US State Dept HATES America.
Crowley must resign or be fired.”



72 posted on 09/07/2010 8:19:02 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: kristinn
"Obama State Dept. Spokesman: Koran Burning Protest Same as 9/11 Attacks"

True, except for the 3,000 dead people.

73 posted on 09/07/2010 8:21:36 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Stimulus. 0bamaCare. Cap and Tax. 9/11 Victory Mosque. TARP. Amnesty. Summer of Recovery.)
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To: kristinn
Koran Burning Protest Same as 9/11 Attacks

Funny but I would bet their were more then a few Koran inside the WTC that burned on 9/11 along with Bibles, Torah, and 3000+ people

74 posted on 09/07/2010 8:22:06 PM PDT by tophat9000 (.............................. BP + BO = BS ...........................Formula for a disaster...)
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To: mastervisa; All

Some other posters think that Obama has masterminded this and is fueling the fire so to speak, that most of the loudest vocal derogatory hate filled rhetoric is paid Obama supporters.

And they are manipulating the Black Panthers into a whitey redneck cracker big gun shootout at OK corral event just so he has the spark to light the flame for a nationwide martial law.

I would avoid the church in Gainsville but I would organize a nationwide day of Patriotic Fire by burning a Koran day.

Islam shows its weakness when it meets truly dedicated defiance, even if its considered childish, I’m sure the 300 Spartans weren’t being total gentlemen when they decided to stand in the way of Xerxes.

Obama thinks he is a reincarnated Xerxes, above mortal men and beyond any impeachment which technically he is. When I came home from a day at work I was amazed at the amount of support and the courageous posters here at FR that have decided that they too will be Spartans.

To be defiant. To be American.


75 posted on 09/07/2010 8:22:33 PM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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To: Brilliant

It would be amusing if they did. Alachua County is the only county in Florida that McGovern carried. I am really curious now as to who will be there and what all they will do. The sign said 6-9 pm. They will be given some kind of ticket I hear for burning without a permit.


76 posted on 09/07/2010 8:22:33 PM PDT by libbylu
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To: kristinn

I probably won’t but a part of me wants to go to Borders, buy a Koran, and burn it in my chiminea on my deck this Saturday. I’m really getting tired of this cr*p.


77 posted on 09/07/2010 8:23:56 PM PDT by Mercat (ground zero mosque/shariah HQ/halal restaurant and petting zoo)
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To: kristinn
Good night all but I leave everyone with my feeling on this matter: I really don't want to stir up and further inflame an already inflamed issue .... well, actually I do! My opinion is that we should have a National Burn the Koran Day on 9/11. Everyone should go out on 9/11 and buy the Koran and promptly burn it in a public, but safe place, and pour pig grease over it to enhance the burning.

Doing this could be considered your constitutional expression of free speech, religion, and association. I could think of no other cult that deserves no respect more than Islam.

78 posted on 09/07/2010 8:24:10 PM PDT by Old Badger (boy do opportunities abound everywhere for Real Conservatives!)
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To: kristinn

My suggestion is not to burn them, but to smoke them thoroughly over a good old-fashioned pork spare rib barbecue.

Then, mail them out to worthy recipients all over the muslim world.


79 posted on 09/07/2010 8:25:43 PM PDT by John Valentine
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To: mastervisa

They had a bunch of “interfaith christians” (read libs) on TV and one who might have been a bishop said that “this isn’t what our country was founded on, it was founded on love.” What a load of you know what!!!!


80 posted on 09/07/2010 8:26:09 PM PDT by Mercat (ground zero mosque/shariah HQ/halal restaurant and petting zoo)
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