Obama calls killings in Afghanistan outrageous (faux outrage alert!)

Reuters ^ | April 2, 2011 | Jeff Mason

[pillut48]

"The desecration of any holy text, including the Koran, is an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry," Obama said in a statement released by the White House.

[pillut48]

Okay, I don't even know where to start! HolyO, can you say 'liberals burning Bibles and American flags'?!?! Correct me if I am wrong, but Pastor Jones is protected by THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. He and his church members threatened to burn a Koran on Sept. 11 but didn't, IIRC, some ferry boat pilot/captain in NYC DID burn a Koran and put the video on YouTube, and he was consequently fired from his job for doing that-were there mass protests overseas and people killed because of that Koran being burned??...fast forward to 2 weeks ago, Pastor Jones et al burn a Koran and there is barely a mentiom in the MSM-- now, suddenly, he's being set up as Satan for the suspicious protests in Afghanistan?? I read an article yesterday that said the officials in Afghanistan said the people instigating the protests seemed to be artificially doing so, that for the most part, there weren't that many people upset in the first place...now Obama is blasting the Constitutional rights of one of the people he is sworn to protect and the MSM is going to town attacking Pastor Jones??? Any one else smell a set up? Anyone else think a rash of Koran burnings are about to commence across the USA???

[tet68]

I’d be willing to do my part.

[pillut48]

Related article here, frightening quotes near the end!! :-O

[troy McClure]

-11.AMERICANS FOR A MUSLIM FREE AMERICA.

OBAMA IS A MUSLIM HE TOLD GEO. STEPHANOPOULOS HE WAS ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.

WE LEARNED ALL WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ISLAM ON

[willk]

I can’t believe I am going to say this but I have to agree with what Obama said. We are dealing with barbarians and Pastor Jones knew it. He knew what he did might lead to the deaths of innocent people but the attraction of being in the limelight was more important to him. He is cut from the same cloth as Rev. Phelps.

[pillut48]

Kandahar protest planned by the Taliban-governor's spokesman

[Winstons Julia]

He’s a douche...but FREE SPEECH is free.

This makes me want to go to the town square and burn a Bible, a Torah and a Koran....

All together.

[dfwgator]

So let’s just ban all anti-Islamic posts here on Free Republic, after all somebody could read it in Afghanistan.

[Kickass Conservative]

Whatever happened to those trophy photos of our Soldiers with dead Afghan Civilians I heard were coming out last week?

They were supposed to make Abu Graib look a vacation at Club Med.

The manipulation of the Media by the “progressives” is beyond belief. I guess those photos would have only been front page news if Bush was still President. Pravda lives!

[dfwgator]

I suspect that had more to do with the killings, than that stupid pastor.

[Kickass Conservative]

You wouldn't know it by the media coverage and Obama’s idiotic comment.

[pillut48]

Wasn’t there a SCOTUS decision years ago that guaranteed folks the right to burn Bibles and US flags??

[NoLibZone]

If he weren’t and illegal from Kenya , he’d feel the same way about the US Constitution.

[Republic_of_Secession.]

I wonder whether Obama sees the irony of chastising someone as “intolerant” & “extreme” when he himself is heading up a war effort leading to the DEATHS of civilians as well. This Pastor is irresponsible & must know that he is making a tenuous situation worse but Obama is engaging in actions which will raise up worse Muslim retaliation.

[Republic_of_Secession.]

The only difference is that Christians are least likely to resort to violence & killing nor even much of a mass public protest if their holy book were desecrated.

[blueplum]

yeah, well, fine, Zero, except for one thing - only the Bible is a holy text - the other is just a book written by a madman

[buccaneer81]

YOU are disgusting. The Koran is NOT a holy book and Islam is NOT a religion.

Bite me.

[ArchAngel1983]

" Obama said in a statement released by the White House."

In a statement released by me . . . just now, I said Obama can go straight to hell and I wouldn't piss on his head if his hair was on fire. Muslum prick!

[KJC1]

He knew what he did might lead to the deaths of innocent people

What else do you want FREE people to not do, because it might cause crazy people to do crazy things?

[3boysdad]

The only difference is that Christians are least likely to resort to violence & killing nor even much of a mass public protest if their holy book were desecrated.

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Do you ever wonder why that is? It wasn't that long ago that this would never be tolerated "peacfully". Enter the age of the mega apostate church. With "heros" like Rick Warren the christian church will never rise to the fight.