Hillary Clinton: Quran Burning Not American Way

(CBS/AP)  Updated at 1:19 p.m. ET

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says plans by a small church in Florida to burn the Muslim holy book are "outrageous," and "aberational" and do not represent America.

In remarks made Wednesday to the Council on Foreign Relations, Clinton said it was "regrettable" that the tiny congregation had gotten so much attention for what she called a "distrustful and disgraceful" means of marking the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11. 2001, terrorist attacks.

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She urged the Rev. Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center to cancel Saturday's planned Quran burning. Jones has vowed to go ahead with the event despite pleas from senior Obama administration officials, including Clinton, that it will put Americans abroad at risk.

Jones told CBS News Wednesday morning his intentions had not changed.

"As of right now, we feel that this message is that important. We are still determined to do it, yes," he told "Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith.

Despite admitting to CBS News in an interview Tuesday that his actions would almost certainly offend all the world's Muslims, Jones insisted Wednesday morning that his "warning" was "geared towards radical Islam," followers of which he claimed were trying to gain control and impose Muslim law in the United States.

"We see its influence around the world. We are sending a message to them that we don't want them to do as they appear to be doing in
Europe," Jones told CBS News. "We want them to know if they're in America, they need to obey our law and Constitution and not slowly push their agenda upon us."

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Jones' planned protest - with its potential international consequences - comes as Clinton asserted Wednesday that the Obama administration's approach to foreign policy is beginning to pay important dividends.

"We are advancing America's interests and making progress on some of our most pressing challenges," she said in remarks prepared for her speech. "Today we can say with confidence that this model of American leadership works, and that it offers our best hope in a dangerous world."

Critics question whether the administration's foreign policy efforts are paying off, given Iran's refusal to negotiate over its nuclear program, continued stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and an uncertain outlook for a successful conclusion to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The administration also has made no discernible progress in getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program.

Last week Clinton hosted Israeli and Palestinian leaders for the first direct peace negotiations in nearly two years, and those talks are to resume next week in Egypt and Jerusalem.

According to excerpts of Clinton's speech provided in advance, she asserted that after years of war, many Americans are wondering what role the U.S. should play abroad in the years ahead.

"We will seize this new moment of opportunity this new American Moment. We are a nation that has always believed we have the power to shape our own destiny, to cut a new and better path," she said.

[anna-5055-1952]

It is the American way! Like painting christ in a flask of urine. Like woodstock. Like making ministers in movies,news,and tv the negative characters and homosexuals are the wise,funny,loving,caring ones. Using children to promote sex or and far left and anti-christian veiws, after all who can resist the face of a cute child-- like Harry Potter. Public Schools promote the reading of these books but not the bible or any book that teaches good moral standards. I thank the good minister for not being silent and doing something. After all, national prayer day is on the line. If we don't as christians wake up to rights for our faiths and others being taken off the law books we will be like the minister in Sweden that did jail time for reading what the bible said about homosexuality,like the muslm women in France being ask to remove their covers. We are stroking too many things the are wrong because we feel for them. I am not denying unions and rights as caregivers and loved ones. Or the right to be safe. Civil rights are for minorites when they are born a race or color. I as a black women, will never one day be able to say well tomorrow after couseling I will no longer be black. Every homosexual can if they choose to realize, no I was not born homosexual and I will not live that way. No one will know the difference. If KKK can talk and demontrate and burn crosses,if homosexuals can have marches,if the tea party can speak, if NAACP and march and meet, if any group can and be peaceful- let them. That was the American way.

[anna-5055-1952]

I saw on the news a child being used to talk of fear about his muslm faith. What about the child not allowed the bring their bibles to school,or their christian rights to christmas holiday and easter. The media is always one sided on these things. America has lost it's moral compass-the bible. What will you say about Billy Graham? He is still alive. Can someone take their camera in and let the man of God speak to America one last time? His son Franklin does great work all over the world. Will you do a special on them? I am not anti- muslm. I think we american women should cover up more to honor our parents,husbands,and self as they do. I love the fact they pray 5 times a day as a family. I worked in a muslm home and many times I repented as a christian women, as the wife/mother showed me what love-prayer-honor in the home truly could be again in America. We need this back in our christian homes. I thing all faiths should be honored again and the good see on TV cannels. The TV needs more devotionals and ministries in its programing. It could help heal America. More programs of good marriages to stop and heal homes, to stop the anger in our children. Should show more stories of young people doing the right things. Black men can do and be more than athletes. Do some shows on good black fathers--Like our president. How about his opinion of fatherhood in a interveiw seen more than once as a call to mend families back together.

[friend2008]

Today, they want to burn the Holy Quran, and tomorrow and they will burn the constitution itself, because it is not representing what they want. It?s the same propaganda Hitler published among Germans, before taking over the German constitution.

In 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people including 19 children, the worst domestic terrorism that America ever experienced before 09/11. After 6 years of investigating the purpose of this terrorist action, and before executing the guy in 2001, they found that McVeigh was a militia movement sympathizer, sought revenge against the federal government for the Waco Siege,
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/chilling-tapes-capture-mcveigh-s-own-words/62f1zpy

In 2009, Dr. George Tiller, one of the nation's few providers of late-term abortions despite decades of protests and attacks, was shot and killed by Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion activists, in a church where he was serving as an usher. Tiller was one of the most demonized by the extremist wing of the anti abortion rights movement, reports CBS News correspondent Bianca Solorzano.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/31/national/main5052192.shtml?tag=topStory;topStoryHeadline

In 2003, Television evangelist and Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson's suggestion that a nuclear device should be used to wipe out the State Department
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/10/09/robertson.state/

In 2010, Joseph Andrew Stack, the software engineer who crashed his small plane into an IRS office building in Austin, became a "True American Hero?, with a Facebook Groups support his Domestic Terrorist.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/19/crimesider/entry6223132.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody

In 2010, FBI: Mich. Militia Plotted to Kill Police, Members of Christian Militia Group Arrested for Conspiring to Attack Law Enforcement With IEDs.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/29/national/main6343544.shtml?tag=stack


In 2010, Extremist admits Obama kill plot. Daniel Cowart, 21, A WHITE supremacist has admitted plotting to assassinate US President Barack Obama.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2913281/Extremist-admits-Obama-kill-plot.html

In 2010, Former President Clinton warns against a civil war, because of Christian militia movement. He sees parallels in the mood of the country now and on April 19, 1995, when the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City killed 168 people while he was in the White House."There's the same kind of economic and social upheaval now," he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview to air Friday on "The Situation Room." Clinton said the Oklahoma City bombing -- then the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history -- was the "last in a series of very high-profile violent encounters" during the 1990s between anti-government activists and authorities. He said the country is better protected to prevent such an attack now. But when asked whether the anti-government mood now is more intense than in the 1990s, Clinton said, "Now, there are all of these groups, you know, saying things like the current political debate is just a prelude to civil war, all of that kind of stuff.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/16/clinton.okc/?hpt=T2

In 2010, so think, what may be next?

Burning the Holy Quran will not reduce the value of the Holy Quran in more than 1 billion people around the world, and will not increase the value of the people who will do it. Certainly, it will remind people with the dark ages of Christianity, when books and people were being burn, because of their beliefs.

[oblomov1]

Wikipedia describes the The Boston Tea Party as "a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and other political protests often refer to it."
If Ms. Clinton was around at that time, she would have criticized this as a senseless act and worried that it would offend the King of England. Yet it was a key step in the road to American independence. Mrs. Clinton, we are a country founded by revolutionaries, and if burning korans is the method that the Florida preacher uses to get his point across, then I support his right to do it, and agree with his point of view. Clearly, it is getting international attention, so it worked. Most Americans are tired of having to appease these Islamist barbarians. This is the U.S. We do NOT need the permission of illiterate, fanatics in the Middle East and Indonesia to protest against the injustices we see perpetrated by maniacal butchers. If you don't agree, Mrs. Clinton, there are plenty of maniacal murderers in prison who need a place to go for Thanksgiving. Enough of these fanatics dictating to Americans how to live, and what to believe. If I wanted to live with fanaticism and brutality I would move to Iran or Afghanistan.

[newsterI]

Hillary Clinton: Quran Burning Not American Way"

Sure it is, there's been book burnings in this country

[winchesterla]

America is primarily a Christian country and it is a pity how Christianity is losing ground by the day. We need to look at ourselves in the mirror and tell ourselves the home truth. This losing ground actually started for some time but people did not find a sincere alternative until as an example the 60s brought the Nation of Islam. When Malcolm X went to Mecca, he was shocked with the level of humanity everyone showed him and how every Muslim - rich or poor, black or white was accepted together ? which he never experienced in America (not even in the church!!). Have you ever heard where a Muslim worshipper is unwelcome in a mosque just because of his race or colour? ? that was and still is what happens in some churches or Christian religious gatherings in the US. So goes the saying: ?When the centre can not hold, Things fall apart?. And as nature abhors vacuum therefore an alternative gains ground and takes control. That is why Islam is gaining ground in the US. This burning of Quran is an act of desperation and some how giving Muslims unnecessary relevance. We Christian must take back our religion which has been hijacked for some time by a group of non believers and restore our Holy Bible in its original form. This is a fight back time.

[KER6218]

Two weeks ago- our President as well as several others were touting how it was the Muslims right to build a building near ground zero- it was their constitutional right- now it's different for a "naturally born" American to express their feelings, whether the world agrees to it or not, via freedom of speach. Why it that? It's simple we have become so "politcally" correct in this country its SICKENING- on a personal level I don't want any Muslims near me in any fashion- that's my right as an American citizen and combat veteran of (4) deployments, (2) Irag, (2) the "Stan"-. As far as General Petraeus (Obama's do boy) is concerned he overstepped his bounds commenting on this subject. He needs to be concerned with the escalating deaths in the Stan and not be worrying about things like these at home.

[KER6218]

Two weeks ago- our President as well as several others were touting how it was the Muslims right to build a building near ground zero- it was their constitutional right- now it's different for a "naturally born" American to express their feelings, whether the world agrees to it or not, via freedom of speach. Why it that? It's simple we have become so "politcally" correct in this country its SICKENING- on a personal level I don't want any Muslims near me in any fashion- that's my right as an American citizen and combat veteran of (4) deployments, (2) Irag, (2) the "Stan"-. As far as General Petraeus (Obama's do boy) is concerned he overstepped his bounds commenting on this subject. He needs to be concerned with the escalating deaths in the Stan and not be worrying about things like these at home.

[Lawyers-Guns-n-Money06]

Hillary Clinton: Quran Burning Not American Way
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Oh, but Hillary, displaying our ignorance in full regalia IS the American way!!!

[Brokennews]

"Hillary Clinton: Quran Burning Not American Way"



We have a way?

Could someone please post a link to what the American way is??

[david_lock]

The only posting a link to this is the Bill Of Rights. The American Way is this! "WE THE PEOPLE" & "ONE NATION UNDER GOD"!
Although I do disapprove of this so called Man Of God's actions, you have to remember this is a free country (freedom of speech). There is also a seperation of church & state in which I believe is in question here. This person does not represent the overall people of the United States of America & especially myself. He is only one man & does not represent America. The media here is imploding this ONE man's actions & is their actions that have caused this uproar. We the people of this world are all God's (Our Father) children & we are all brothers & sisters of His making. Only God will & should judge when the time comes. I have seen on television burning American flags abroad which disturbed me greatly (My Dad fought in 3 wars). And that is their belief. I believe we should let this 1 idiot do what he wants to do. Judgement day will come soon!!

Media!!!............Report some good news!!!!!!!