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What?s All This Big Brouhaha Over the Burning of a Qur?an?

By Sean Osborne

by Sean Osborne 12 September 2010: An Associated Press report published this morning states, “(Pastor Terry) Jones’ plan had drawn opposition across the political spectrum and the world. Obama had appealed to him on television, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates in a personal phone call, not to burn the Islamic holy book. Gen. David Petraeus, head of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, said carrying out the plan would have endangered American troops.” With all of this global brouhaha over a really small Evangelical Christian congregation’s Pastor merely talking about burning Qur’ans prior to the 9th anniversary of the September 11 Islamic attacks on the United States financial and military headquarters, well, suffice it to say that I was absolutely amazed by the grostesque grandstanding nature of it all as made evident in the above AP quote...continue to full post

Full post as published by Northeast Intelligence Network on September 12, 2010 (boomark / email).