The controversial Florida pastor who halted plans to burn a Quran on the 9/11 anniversary last year oversaw the burning of the Islamic holy book on Sunday after it was found "guilty" during a "trial" at his church.
Jones considered the "International Judge the Quran Day" to be a fairer way of addressing the Islamic holy book, and denied breaking earlier promises not to burn a Quran.
If the jury had reached a different conclusion, Jones said he would have issued an apology for his accusations that the Quran promotes violence. Heh heh.
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a jury of 12 church members and volunteers made the judgment
I have a feeling that I'd have enjoyed watching the jury screening process on YouTube.
"several hundred" were polled and voted for burning over shredding, drowning and facing a firing squad.
A YouTube video of the Koran facing a firing squad (I picture a blindfold and 'last cigarette') would have been even better. Why no electric chair option though? LOL
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Summary: Zero sees US as imperialist, wants UN to rein us in. Since the Mad Mullahs have a right to hate us, Zero was on their side. Same reason he didn't support Mubarak. Even tho their names are similar - Moo-Barak.
Clinton is an opportunist. Both crave media attention. Neither rank US strategic interests very high. Which is why they seem so disorganized.
Egypt will be taken over by the brotherhood come September 'elections', then the Suez Canal will ... hmmm... I don't think there was a forecast for that.
Libya's rebels are islamist-backed, but the media romances them as freedon fighters. So not really news, but a well-crafted summary of Rantburg opinion, it seem to me.
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..but the media romances them as freedom fighters.
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How much coherency is there amongst these uprisings in islamic countries such as Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Iran, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia? Are these uprisings of peoples seeking freedom, democracy, and self-governance? Or are the uprisings islamist-driven whereby the rebels are moving towards an islamic caliphate that is hostile to the West? It seems that the answers to these last two questions would drive our policy in the Mideast. It would also mean that our POTUS should not be blinded by his own "community organizer" ideology and act in the best interests of the U.S..
To have a policy decend into dementia, you have to have a policy to start with.
Forgive me for apologizing for Hillary but she does not set policy that empty suit under the desk in the oval office does.
We do not have a foreign policy. We do not have a strategic policy. We do not have a domestic policy.
We have no policies nowhere, nada, nothing, zippo, null, nein, nichts, uhuh, nope, none, la, nyet...
Unfortunately I have to admit it but Rush and Sean and Bill O called this one when the empty suit under the desk who will remain unnamed won the primary.
I am still amazed that my party let this guy to run with no qualifications, no background and a closet full of lies...don't they vet people for cabinet posts? why not for President.
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How much coherency is there amongst these uprisings in islamic countries such as Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Iran, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia?
It feels to me like the fuss of the Baby Boomers for open campus in high schools and against the Viet Nam war. A generational bulge feeling its oats. Honestly, they don't know what they want, just that it's different than what their parents accepted... and democracy is the cool, modern thing, even if most of them haven't a clue what it is or how it's done.
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Honestly, they don't know what they want, outside of sex, drugs and rock & roll. That's what they have in common with Libyan rebels, who also don't know what they want, outside of a dictator other than Qadaffy and more Islam, way more Islam, always more Islam. And death to infidels and apostates.
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I heard an NBC reporter in Tobruk say that he interviewed rebels on the street and found that one out five rebels thought Ghadaffi was Jewish. Go figure. That does not bode well for freedom, democracy, and self-government. Lot of nuttiness in the world of islam.
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Don't they vet people for cabinet posts? why not for President?
They didn't vet Obama at all. America voted for a skin color, not content of his character or experience. What did we know about his character or experience? Not much, because there isn't much to evaluate. I know many trademen, tow truck drivers and store managers that could be better presidents than Obama.
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Just imagine, the individual who marginalized nearly half of Iraq's population, and who during his ongoing period of rule saw the Christians driven out of their own country and harassed, is now describing the Arab Gulf states as tyrannical and is attacking them!
Just imagine the person who came [to power] on the back of an American tank, and whose term in office as Prime Minister was renewed for him despite losing the elections, and whose people came out and demonstrated on the day they regretted merely voting for him, is now talking about democracy and freedoms!
Just imagine this; during his time in power more Iraqis were killed than during the Saddam Hussein era and all his wars and he is now talking about rights and justice?
Just imagine that the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki, whose term was renewed based on Iranian-US approval and whose government killed approximately 14 anti-government protesters a few days ago, is now attacking the Arab Gulf states on the pretext of defending the Shia of Bahrain and is giving lectures on freedom and democracy and talking about the winds of change. Can anything be more ironic than this? How can Nuri al Maliki be the Prime Minister to the whole of Iraq, with all its Sunnis, Shia, Christians and other components, whilst using the same language as Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad or Hassan Nasrallah? We have written so much on the sectarianism of the Iraqi government and its subordination to Iran and we were told that we were exaggerating. And now we have the Arabs, the people of the Gulf in particular, and of course the Iraqis before them, dumbstruck at what al Maliki and others like him, such as Moqtada al Sadr who lives in Iran and Ahmed al Chalabi, one of the most prominent figures of the US occupation of Iraq, do and say. How can people of this sectarian mindset be guardians of the various components of the Iraqi nation?
When al Maliki attacks the Gulf States and their leaders he is confirming one fact to us; that the current sectarian Iraqi regime is not democratic. He is also confirming that this regime will not last at all in this extreme form as Iraq does not belong to the Shia or to any one sect and nor should it. Rather, al Maliki's attack will isolate the Iraqi regime and it has no future with this kind of logic unless it wants to be like Hezbullies, which also has no future. But there is one very important point to which we must pay attention; we are fortunate that all the cards have been revealed and the game has become clear today.
The lie that is the democracy of Iraq can no longer continue and it cannot be said that Storied Baghdad has returned as an active member on the Arab scene; rather, Iraq has become an active member in the process of the exportation of the Iranian project in the region.
This is not a Sunni-Shia issue, but rather an issue of who believes in the homeland and who believes in the Wali al Faqih [Guardian Jurist] and there is a big difference between the two. Therefore, we are fortunate today that the process of separating [the two] has taken place with very clear results and has happened faster than we thought as this helps us to know who Iran's agents are and to know who are truly eager for their own homelands. With regards to al Maliki and others in Storied Baghdad who are attacking the Gulf States, one can only say to them: if you have no shame then do as you please!
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It's easy to forget that Iraq is now a Shiia run state and as such will be the protector of the Arab Shiia.
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And yet, phil_b, the author seems to think the Iraqis should rise above their tribal origins and seek a nationalistic unity. It's a nice daydream.
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More Iraqis were killed under Maliki than Hussein? I don't think so. Iran War, Gulf War 1, Gulf War 2, Kurdish and Swamp Arab purges - and of course the 'millions' of babies we killed with the sanctions, and then there are the routine killings with the plastic shredder etc. Maliki's no saint but he's still a few laps behind Hussein.
Polite estimates say there are between 500,000 and 750,000 bodies in the 1200 or so mass graves throughout Iraq.
Statistical surveys estimate there were over 1.5 million people executed by Saddam, on top of the 1.0 million or so men he fed into the meat grinder with Iran.
Statistical surveys in Baghdad estimate that one in four families in Baghdad had a relative jailed and executed by Saddam.
The totals are hard to come by as millions fled Iraq. The total population of Iraq fell by almost 6.0 million in twenty years between 1980 and 2000.
To say Maliki is on par with Saddam is irresponsible journalism and slander of the worst kind.
Comparing Maliki to Saddam because security forces fired on a crowd is like saying the invasion of Grenada was worse than Operation Barbarosa.
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Comparing Maliki to Saddam because security forces fired on a crowd is like saying the invasion of Grenada was worse than Operation Barbarosa. It must be fun as a journalist to write for a profoundly ignorant readership! You can say just about anything.
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a 2007 New York Police Department report identified the organization as an "incubator" for Islamic radicalism....seeks to establish Islamic Sharia law worldwide...a recruitment tool to bring Muslims into the Brotherhood...rabidly anti-Israel"
Universities could do something about this if they wanted to. There are plenty of other students who would appreciate the opportunity to go to college. Universities tend to be incubators for the left. Moreover, the radicals and leftists of the 1960s tend to be run universities today. The left, for some reason, embraces the notion muslims are kindred spirits. They also embrace the false notion that muslims are just another class of victims.
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The controversial Florida pastor who halted plans to burn a Quran on the 9/11 anniversary last year oversaw the burning of the Islamic holy book on Sunday after it was found "guilty" during a "trial" at his church.
Just imagine, the individual who marginalized nearly half of Iraq's population, and who during his ongoing period of rule saw the Christians driven out of their own country and harassed, is now describing the Arab Gulf states as tyrannical and is attacking them!
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