Posted on 04/03/2011 10:22:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Congressional leaders Sunday denounced the recent Koran burning in Florida that is being blamed for days of deadly anti-American riots across Afghanistan and hinted at possible congressional condemnation or hearings.
The book burning, done by Florida pastor Terry Jones with little publicity at the time almost two weeks ago, is being blamed for attacks that led to the deaths of seven U.N. workers on Friday.
Protests continued during the weekend, with 10 people killed in rioting in Kandahar on Saturday and Sunday. Hundreds of demonstrators burned an effigy of President Obama on Sunday in Jalalabad while stomping on a U.S. flag and blocking the main highway for three hours, according to reporters in Afghanistan.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was asked by host Bob Schieffer on CBS Face the Nation whether he would introduce a resolution to condemn the burning of the Muslim holy book, as requested by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
The Nevada Democrat replied, Well, well take a look at this, of course. John Kerry, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, has been on top of this. Hes made many trips to Afghanistan and I think will take a look at this.
On the same show, Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, made an analogy to wartime free-speech limits and said, I wish we could find a way to hold people accountable. Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war.
During World War II, we had limits on what you could do if it inspired the enemy, he said.
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Grandma you mean well and God bless but do you really think the sort of folks who stone women to death and strap bombs to children to blow up other children will not find another excuse to kill infidels
We cannot be bound by parameters these maniacs dictate through heinous bloodshed
If ever a theological book deserved burning the Koran is it
I think that was Blackjack Pershing. They should put bacon grease in high powered atomizers and spray the perimeters of the camps. Spray the jihadis when they come running too. Bacon grease mist would also be highly flammable.
Ditto.
We burn books. they burn Churches. And people.
you’ve hit the proberbial nail on the head!!!!!!!!
ditto
There are some on here who will not let you ask the questions you are trying to ask. I’m not exactly sure why they don’t want you to ask those questions, but I was pilloried here yesterday for posing the same, reasonable question.
Maybe they are trying so hard to prove a negative?
Because it`s easier ... and safer ... to blame Americans for the murderous acts of a pack of wild muslanimals half a world away.
There are some on this site who do not want you to ask those questions. Perhaps they are trying so hard to prove a negative
This is an insane asylum being run by the inmates.
Great analogy!
I do understand that he got under the incredibly thin skin of a gang of religious zealots who are, no doubt, his equal.
Like I mentioned in another thread, we`d have more success building a nation out of a barrelful of cockroaches than of muslim knuckledragging filth.
Nearly 10 years trying to offer a better life to sub-simian muslim sh*t? Hell no... screw it. They`re not worth it. And if future trouble originates from there, level it.
Like all animals, muslims respect and fear one thing — the likelihood of extermination. When those screeching orcs poured out onto the streets of Maser-e-Sharif, toward the UN compound, they knew no opposing force was coming, otherwise they`d have stayed in their caves snorting around for raw meat.
I just scanned youtube indexes of hundreds of examples of Koran burnings by various sorts of groups over the past year and yet this one example by Terry Jones gets all the press? Politics at play I believe...
Just imagine how Karzai would have reacted to the picture of a Koran inside of a pigs mouth that i saw on you tube!
How naive and timid the American people and their government have become.
We have become so Politically Correct (PC) that we worry about offending our enemies!
Don’t we realize that no matter what appeasement we present, WE WILL EVENTUALLY BE AT WAR with these animals? It will come as sure as the sun rises in the morning.
The first (and most important thing) we need to do is to destroy PC and reign in diversity in preparation of the war to come. Without doing so, we will never see the war but instead, simply roll over and become slaves of the animals without a whimper.
Yeah, and remember how Patton, Eisenhower, Nimitz, and MacArthur all condemned those cartoons? Not. Makes you wonder about our current crop of military "leaders" who condemn the koran burnings.
Declare a war then or shut up!
And the U.S. military was told to burn Bibles!
All Jones and his pseudo-church are interested in is the publicity, same as Fred Phelps and his mob. And Congress and the media are playing right into the hands of both groups.
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