Florida Minister: September 11 Quran Burn Still Planned
September 8th, 2010The U.S. is murdering Muslim civilians, with all manner of weaponry, across several countries, but burning the Quran is going to piss some people off?
Oh ok.
And Petraeus and Clinton are mentioning this yokel…
What’s going on here?
Via: ABC News:
The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said Wednesday he was determined to go through with his plan to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, despite pressure from the White House, religious leaders and others to call it off.
“We are still determined to it, yes,” the Rev. Terry Jones told the CBS Early Show.
Jones says he has received more than 100 death threats and has started wearing a .40-caliber pistol strapped to his hip since announcing his plan to burn the book Muslims consider the word of God and insist be treated with the utmost respect. The 58-year-old minister proclaimed in July that he would stage “International Burn-a-Quran Day.”
Supporters have been mailing copies of the holy text to his Gainesville church of about 50 followers to be incinerated in a bonfire on Saturday to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Kabul, took the rare step of a military leader taking a position on a domestic matter when he warned in an e-mail to The Associated Press that “images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan — and around the world — to inflame public opinion and incite violence.”
Petraeus spoke Wednesday with Afghan President Karzai about the matter, according to a military spokesman Col. Erik Gunhus. “They both agreed that burning of a Quran would undermine our effort in Afghanistan, jeopardize the safety of coalition troopers and civilians,” Gunhus said, and would “create problems for our Afghan partners … as it likely would be Afghan police and soldiers who would have to deal with any large demonstrations.”
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the pastor’s plans were outrageous and urged Jones to cancel the event.
“It is regrettable that a pastor in Gainesville, Florida, with a church of no more than 50 people can make this outrageous and distrustful, disgraceful plan and get the world’s attention, but that’s the world we live in right now,” Clinton said in remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations. “It is unfortunate, it is not who we are,” she said.
Okay I am so curious how this isgoing to turn out… Is it me or is this kind of comical..?
Obvious psyop, even if the “minister” is an unwitting participant. “They” have been fomenting something like this with the phony mosque at ground zero thing. Perfect timing to ramp up the patriotic and anti-Islam feelings for the 9-11 anniversary. It’s a damned if you do damned if you don’t situation. The president has said that going through with this “puts the troops at risk”. So anyone who opposes this event for whatever reason will at minimum look like they “support the troops” even though they are against these wars. If you are for the burning, you can be accused by the other side of not respecting the president, not to mention a huge mass of Muslims around the world. Remember Bush’s “Bring ’em on” nonsense? Oh right that was OK. Brilliant divide and conquer move.
I suspect that this recent rash of anti-islam sentiment in the U.S. is related to the November elections. Certain elements of the Right Wing trying to mobilize their base for election day.
There may also be a coincidence of goals here, with the military/industrial complex, as this same anti-islamic fervor will benefit those who want war against Iran.
And burning the Koran is really gonna piss them off? Really? We kill hundreds of innocent civilians for oil and empire, yet the burning of this book is going to piss them off…and this is going to put them over the edge, and put the troops in harms way? uhm, HELLO!!! THEY’RE ALREADY IN THE WAY NUMBNUTS!!! Obviously, nobody has really stated the obvious – welcome to the tenth crusade!
Of course, it’s absurd to make a big deal out of a pastor’s book burning (imagine the insult! the retribution!) and calmly sip coffee while reading about the military’s daily body burning (collateral damage. mistakes happen.) but don’t underestimate the power of symbolism. Remember the Newsweek Koran in the toilet incident? It touched off days of rioting around the world. Muslims in Afghanistan are as irrational and reactionary as Christians in Florida.
I think they already defile the Koran on a routine basis as part of the Gitmo/Abu Ghraib/CIA prison psychological torture techniques.
In any case, book-burning puts you on par with the Nazis. But so does everything else they’ve done.
Burning the Quran only makes sense if you assume the 19 hijackers were Muslims.
The main stream media SAYS they were but lately I”ve grown a little leery about the main stream media.
i recently moved from gainesville to a rural community just outside of it, and let me tell you, this crackhead is freaking everybody out re: “what sort of people is this going to bring to gainesville?” ugh. mr. pastor is pretty obviously off his rocker and just wanting a publicity stunt for his tiny (50-person) congregation to gain some new uber-radical ‘christian soldier’ type followers. which he probably has already, though thankfully there aren’t TOO many in this college town.
around here we’re thinking the fire chief is just going to have the unpermitted bonfire quashed the minute it’s lit and it will all be a total non-event. unless rioting ensues, of course.