AG Holder: Quran Burning Idiotic, Dangerous

(CBS/AP)  Attorney General Eric Holder has called the planned burning of the Qurans at a Florida church idiotic and dangerous.

That's the word from religious leaders who met with Holder for nearly an hour Tuesday to discuss recent attacks on Muslims and mosques around the United States.

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The meeting was closed to reporters, but a Justice Department official who was present confirmed that Holder said that the plan by the Rev. Terry Jones to burn copies of the Quran at his church in Gainesville, Fla., Saturday was idiotic.

The official, who requested anonymity because the meeting was private, also said Holder was quoting Gen. David Petraeus when he used the word dangerous.

Petraeus said the book burning could endanger U.S. troops.

Jones told CBS News that he's aware the act will likely insult all members of the Muslim faith.

"We are definitely probably insulting all Muslims," Jones, of the Dove World Outreach Center told CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella. "The fact that we offend them is the lesser of two evils."

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Jones believes radical Islam could take over the United States and that the best way to fight back is by sending a radical message, Cobiella reports.

"Sooner or later we're going to have to say no to radical Islam," Jones told Cobiella. "We feel what we are doing is we are actually revealing the nature of Islam."

Despite such an acknowledgement from Jones and warnings from the White House and Gen. Petraeus, the minister intends to carry out his protest.

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[Void-Master]

by FlangeSqueal8 September 8, 2010 6:11 AM EDT

This has NOTHING to do with 'free speech.'

You silly RepubliTards probably think it's freee speech to yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre !

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So the law says you cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theatre. Why? Because people might panic?

What if the theatre really is on fire? Will people not panic then? More likely, no one will bother to yell fire because it's illegal. Let 'em burn.

To place limits on a right is stupid and will sooner or later back fire -- regardless why you try to impose such a limit.

[pragmatist1]

Holder is a terrorist sympathizer. He doesn't care at all about the routine and systematic religious and secular atrocities against non-Muslims by Muslims in predominantly Muslim countries. That Holder used to defend the terrorists explains why he and the president don't want to charge the USS Cole murderer, or the Sept. 11th planners, or the Ft. Hood terrorist murderer, etc. He and the president also don't care about the burning of the American flag. That's OK when others do reprehensible things like this. Sympathizers.

[LibertarianOH]

propitiation: Wrote

I think all of you mean the State of Arizona, and not the State of Nevada?

One thing about A.G. Holder, he makes A.G. Reno look good.
...& Holder's boss makes President Carter look good.


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Yes sir... you are right. I made an error in an earlier posting and I apologize to the State of Arizona for that error!

Arguments posted by one who love guns and lawyers and money, just have a way of getting my ire up and in my response to him... in my haste, yes, I did, name the wrong state... sorry about that to the state of Arizona and their Governor... they do deserve correctness in our posts.

The rest of your post... I agree with you.

btw...

I tried twice to respond to you and correct my prior references, but was shut down because I made the mistake of using the Governor's name or the poster's that I was responding to! Let's see if the censors stop this third attempt to make the correction you rightfully pointed out... Thank You!

TCG-L

[formrusmcsgt]

by element51 September 8, 2010 7:22 AM EDT
To them, this is grounds for killing and that is exactly what we can expect them to do.
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Morons like this "preacher" and those posting support for him are a terrorist recruiter's dream come true.....

[rock0223]

Rev. Terry, he should burn one now and prove he means business.

[tsigili]

Organized religion is dangerous, and often idiotic.

[LibertarianOH]

Case In Point:

Qur'an
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qur%27an
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Final Excerpt:

Qur'an desecration means mishandling the Qur?an by defiling or dismembering it. Muslims believe they should always treat the book with reverence, and are forbidden, for instance, to pulp, recycle, or simply discard worn-out copies of the text. Respect for the written text of the Qur?an is an important element of religious faith by many Muslims. They believe that intentionally insulting the Qur?an is a form of blasphemy.
The text of the Quran has become readily accessible over the internet, in Arabic as well as numerous translations in other languages. It can be downloaded and searched both word-by-word and with Boolean algebra. Photos of ancient manuscripts and illustrations of Quranic art can be witnessed. However, there are still limits to searching the Arabic text of the Quran.[

It's one very long read, but worth reading to understand how radicals have come to misunderstand its teachings.

TCG-L

[inketolstoy]

Any time humans become extremist they become dangerous and often idiotic. Many of your statements are proof.

[thesevenveils]

Radical Islam has already taken root in several states. The woods of Virginia and New York hide colonies of radical Muslims who ignore US laws and customs and instead practice Sharia law openly. They are armed, organized and carry out their far right religious practices with the same impunity as the Branch Davidians did and the well guarded and armed radical "Mormons" have in Waco Texas.

It is time the constitution is modified so it is easier to distinguish a valid religion from a cult so dangerous cults can be quickly disassembled before they cause harm to the public.

[vette_man]

Give us a BREAK.. gezz's get a serious education will you..

[Brokennews]

How about if a group of Muslims stand across the street & burn an equal number of bibles? Would that not even things out?? Wouldn't that satify them? Is that not an eye for an eye?
I would assume that the only people that would like to see this kind of thing escalate are book publishers!

[ppaulville]

Let me get this straight: I can burn a flag, a Bible or Beatles records, no matter who it irritates, and it's my right. But if I burn a Quran, I risk putting our troops at risk and incurring the wrath of the U.S. President and Attorney General? Whose country is this, anyway? Sometimes freedom ain't pretty, and sometimes people exercise it in ways others wouldn't, but this is OUR country and this is what freedom looks like. I'm sure our troops understand this better than anyone.

[thesevenveils]

Amen brother

[vette_man]

Totally agree with you...

[Lawyers-Guns-n-Money06]

by LibertarianOH September 8, 2010 9:27 AM EDT
Lawyers-Guns-n-Money06 Wrote:

Geez, I thought most libertarians had at least a rudimentary understanding of basic government organization.

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Being a well read Constitutionalist,
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Okay, what are you then? A teabagger or a Libertarian? From your statements concerning immigration, I'm hedging my bet it's not Libertarian.
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Just what in the he!! makes you think for even one second these fanatics wouldn't cut your head off and drag your sorry carcass through the streets given half a chance anyway?? Go anywhere in the Middle East and proclaim you are an American... see what happens... I suspect it won't be a pretty site!
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In the past three years, I've been to two Middle East countries, and Europe as well (still there).

Most of the people living in radical Islamist states cower in fear of those radicals and given the chance, would throw those shackles off for good. If the pastor wants to do something, he should be spouting off about the need for secular governments that AREN'T based in ANY religion; that allows the good deeds of all religions to flourish while keeping their hegemony and hypocrisy in check.

If you want to truly punish the radicals, the first thing we need to do is got off the Middle East oil teat. For the life of me, I can't understand why we continue to placate an Islamist state such as Saudia Arabia and demonize Iran.

[Lawyers-Guns-n-Money06]

It is seperated and it better damn well stay that way.

[displeased]

There will never be separation between state and Mosque in any Muslim country. So why should we separate state and Church here in America?
by LiberalismIsMentalIllness September 8, 2010 10:35 AM EDT


Because we don't want to end up like them.