The white house's pro muslim stance.....

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Does this administration have a pro muslim stance? Or is it just a who cares about Christianity stance?

Not that I agree with the koran burning. But is it not a matter of free speech? Bad taste, but legal.

Koran Burning And Bible Burning Treated Differently In America?
By
Adam Kirk - Morning News Producer
@ September 8, 2010 5:56 AM Permalink | Comments (39) | TrackBacks (0)
In a matter of weeks, a small Gainesville church holding services in an unassuming steel building has become a national phenomenon; and the national media can't get enough of it.

Pastor Terry Jones did not gain international stardom until recently despite a long list of controversial protests. His playground, a city of 125,000 covered by the sprawling University of Florida campus and one-time home to college football hero Tim Tebow, Gainesville is hardly a backwoods 'burb. But Jones and his 50-or-so followers have routinely been seen on the side of the road, holding up signs reading "Islam is of the Devil" and even targeting the city's newly elected openly gay mayor, Craig Lowe.

In fact just last year this same church gained attention in Jacksonville for handing out t-shirts with the same slogan. A student was even sent home from school for wearing one, yet the needle on the dial of the national media barely moved. It wasn't until Jones threatened to burn the Muslim holy book that he drew the ire of people around the world, dozens of religious leaders, the New Black Panther Party and the Obama administration.

Now at least two dozen Christian churches, Jewish temples and Muslim organizations in the city have mobilized to plan events _ some will read from the Koran at their own weekend services. A student group is organizing a protest across the street from the church on Saturday.

But just last year, when the pastor of a 14 member church in Canton, N.C. promised to burn all translations of the Christian Bible it considered evil, only a handful of reporters showed up. The church did gain national attention, but never to the degree of the Dove World Outreach Center. And as far as we can tell, the top General in the war on terror, the Secretary of State, and the President never weighed in. The church backed down in the end, after threats of fines for violating local statutes, but their ultimate ceremony was even ignored by the local paper that covered their area.

This increased amount of media coverage puts the Obama administration in a tough political position. Just a few weeks back the President said he supported the "right" of an Imam to construct an Islamic community center just blocks from the site of the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, but would not comment on the "wisdom" of doing so.

However, the President's spokesman hasn't said whether the President supports the "right" of the Gainesville church to burn a Koran.

This disparity may highlight a sharp break in the way different Americans think about the virtues of turning the other cheek. Were the President to come out in favor of the church's right to burn the holy book, he could be criticized by Republicans and Democrats alike in an already contentious election season. When the President made his statement on the proposed Islamic center, even some top Democrats expressed their opposition to that position. However, if he stays silent on the issue he could be attacked for being biased toward the constitutional rights of Muslims and not those of other faiths.

This morning on NBC's "The Today Show" senior political advisor to President Obama David Axelrod said when asked whether the Gainesville church has a right to burn a Koran, "it's not a matter of whether they have the right, it's a matter of whether it's right."
Hmmm. So it's a matter of right and wrong with the koran burning, but not with the construction of a mosque at ground zero?


Burning a Koran is considered by Muslims among the most offensive actions taken against Islam. 15 people died and scores were wounded in riots 5 years ago in Afghanistan sparked by a story in Newsweek magazine claiming that interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay detention center flushed a Koran down the toilet to get inmates to talk. Newsweek later retracted the story.

Just this week a group of 500 protesters chanted "Long live Islam" and "Death to America" a world away in the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan.

In a blog on the website of the Dove World Outreach Center, writer Fran Ingram offered the groups' reasoning for burning the Koran, arguing that it is not God's word and denies Jesus is the son of God, that Islam is totalitarian and that the religion teaches idolatry, paganism, rites and rituals.
Jones said he now carries a .40-caliber pistol on his hip, because of the level of response and death threats his church is taking seriously. He also said he's praying about his decision to go forward with the burning, and that he could change his mind if he gets a sign from God.

[War Eagle!!!]

If a republican had said this about the Bible...there would be hell to pay...