Townhall.com ^ | April 4, 2011 | Rich Galen
Posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 6:30:36 PM by Kaslin
That preacher in Florida who burned a Koran is a ______ (Fill in the Blank). On that, I think we can all agree.
The notion that a guy with a 30-person congregation can hold himself up as - literally - a judge, and some of his massive congregation as jury, to decide on the legitimacy of Islam as a religion would be laughable, except we don't laugh about those things any more.
Both U.S. President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the actions of Terry Jones but Karzai's comments were used as a match by Imams in Mosques across Afghanistan at Friday prayers to light the fires of an insane overreaction.
Yesterday Karzai issued a statement "calling on the US Congress to condemn a Christian preacher's burning of the Koran."
Ok. Fair's fair. I would consider the U.S. Congress voting on such a resolution just as soon as Karzai issues a statement condemning the murder of innocent people in Mazar-e-Sharif and across his country.
In the attack at Mazar-e-Sharif, which is in northern Afghanistan, a mob of about 1,000 people stormed the United Nations compound, killed at least four guards and three U.N. staffers - none of whom were Americans.
Since Friday some 20 people have been killed across Afghanistan in demonstrations against Jones having burned a copy of the Koran in Florida.
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