{"id":250,"date":"2010-09-09T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/09\/sarah-palin-president-obama-agree-quran-burning-is-wrong.html"},"modified":"2010-09-09T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T11:08:00","slug":"sarah-palin-president-obama-agree-quran-burning-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/09\/sarah-palin-president-obama-agree-quran-burning-is-wrong.html","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin & President Obama Agree: Quran-Burning Is Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

The chorus of voices against Pastor Terry Jones’ plan to host “Burn a Koran Day”<\/a> at his ironically-named Dove World Outreach Center church in Florida church tomorrow — Sept. 11, which coincides with the Muslim celebration of Eid-al-Fitr, the joyous culmination of Ramadan, this year — now includes Pope Benedict<\/a>, President Barack Obama<\/a>, Sarah Palin,<\/a> Glenn Beck<\/a>, Angelina Jolie<\/a>, Gen. David Petraeus<\/a>, the VFW <\/a>and other military\/veterans groups who point out that this plan motivates Muslim terrorists and therefore endangers our troops abroad and ourselves at home.<\/p>\n

There’s a pun in here somewhere about hell freezing over.<\/p>\n

What’s interesting is that, especially among the politically conservative opponents of this book-burning stunt, people are now making the argument that this is just like Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s <\/a>proposal to build Park51, the Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero: Yes, America grants us the freedom to do these things, but that doesn’t mean that we should.<\/p>\n

Hmmm. Well, as Jon Stewart said last night, around the 2:15 mark of this Daily Show<\/em> <\/a>footage:<\/p>\n

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Get it? See the parallel? A Christian is an extremist for burning the Quran. A Muslim is an extremist by reading from it… too close to a place that their <\/em>extremists burned. It almost makes no sense.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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