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Pastor Reconsiders Cancellation of Koran Burning

Pastor Reconsiders Cancellation of Koran BurningGAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) – An imam says the leader of a small Florida church told him that he would call off a plan to burn the Quran because it would endanger troops, not because they had a deal to move the location of a mosque planned near ground zero.

Imam Muhammad Musri said late Thursday that he and the Rev. Terry Jones agreed to have a meeting in New York about the location. He says Jones told him he would cancel the burning after a call from the Secretary of Defense and because other religious and political leaders including the president all came out against it.

When they spoke to the media after the meeting, Musri says Jones “stretched my words” about what was said about the mosque.

Jones said at that news conference that he’d cancel the event Saturday. Later he said he was rethinking that and that Musri “clearly, clearly lied to us.”

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) – An anti-Islamic preacher backed off and then threatened to reconsider burning the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, angrily accusing a Muslim leader of lying to him Thursday with a promise to move an Islamic center and mosque away from New York’s ground zero. The imam planning the center denied there was ever such a deal.

The Rev. Terry Jones generated an international firestorm with his plan to burn the Quran on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and he has been under intense pressure to give it up. President Barack Obama urged him to listen to “those better angels” and give up his “stunt,” saying it would endanger U.S. troops and give Islamic terrorists a recruiting tool. Defense Secretary Robert Gates took the extraordinary step of calling Jones personally.

Standing outside his 50-member Pentecostal church, the Dove Outreach Center, alongside Imam Muhammad Musri, the president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, Jones said he relented when Musri assured him that the New York mosque will be moved.

Hours later, after Musri and the leader of the New York mosque denied such an agreement, Jones said Musri “clearly, clearly lied to us.”

“Given what we are now hearing, we are forced to rethink our decision,” Jones said. “So as of right now, we are not canceling the event, but we are suspending it.”

Jones did not say whether the Quran burning could still be held Saturday, but he said he expected Musri to keep his word and expected “the imam in New York to back up one of his own men.”

Jones had never invoked the mosque controversy as a reason for his planned protest. He cited his belief that the Quran is evil because it espouses something other than biblical truth and incites radical, violent behavior among Muslims.

But he said Thursday afternoon that he prayed about the decision and concluded that if the mosque was moved, it would be a sign from God to call off the Quran burning.

“We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans,” Jones said. “We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.”

Musri thanked Jones and his church members “for making the decision today to defuse the situation and bring to a positive end what has become the world over a spectacle that no one would benefit from except extremists and terrorists” who would use it to recruit future radicals.

After the news conference, however, Musri told The Associated Press there is no deal to move the mosque. He said there was only an agreement for him and Jones to travel to New York and meet Saturday with the imam overseeing plans to build a mosque near ground zero.

“I told the pastor that I personally believe the mosque should not be there, and I will do everything in my power to make sure it is moved,” Musri said. “But there is not any offer from there (New York) that it will be moved. All we have agreed to is a meeting, and I think we would all like to see a peaceful resolution.”

Musri did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment Thursday night after Jones accused him of lying.

In New York, the leader of the Islamic center project, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, issued a statement saying he was glad Jones had decided not to burn the Quran but that he had spoken to neither the pastor nor Musri.

“We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter,” Rauf said. “We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.”

Jones’ decision to call off the Quran burning was made after a firestorm of criticism from leaders around the world. The pope and several other Christian leaders were among those urging him to reconsider his plans, which generated a wave of anger among Muslims. In Afghanistan, hundreds of Afghans burned an American flag and chanted “Death to the Christians” to protest the planned Quran burning.

Obama told ABC’s “Good Morning America” in an interview aired Thursday that Jones’ plan “is completely contrary to our values as Americans.”

“And as a very practical matter, I just want him to understand that this stunt that he is talking about pulling could greatly endanger our young men and women who are in uniform,” Obama said.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell confirmed that Gates called Jones about 4 p.m. EST Thursday – shortly before the pastor’s announcement. During the “very brief” call, Gates expressed “his grave concern that going forward with this Quran burning would put the lives of our forces at risk, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Morrell said.

Morrell said earlier that the decision to issue a personal appeal was not easy because it could provoke other extremists “who, all they want, is a call from so-and-so.” After Gates’ call to Jones, Morrell said the secretary’s “fundamental baseline attitude about this is that if that phone call could save the life of one man or woman in uniform it was a call worth placing.”

Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.S., thanked Obama, Gates and other administration officials for their efforts. “This is definitely a positive moment in showing America’s tolerance and pluralism and should not go unappreciated in the Muslim world,” Haqqani said.

The cancellation also was welcomed by Jones’ neighbors in Gainesville, a city of 125,000 anchored by the sprawling University of Florida campus. At least two dozen Christian churches, Jewish temples and Muslim organizations in the city had mobilized to plan inclusive events, including Quran readings at services, as a counterpoint to Jones’ protest.

Jones’ Dove Outreach Center is independent of any denomination. It follows the Pentecostal tradition, which teaches that the Holy Spirit can manifest itself in the modern day. Pentecostals often view themselves as engaged in spiritual warfare against satanic forces.

The pastor was not the only person to inject confusion into the debate over the New York mosque, which is planned to go up two blocks north of the trade center site. Donald Trump, who made a fortune in real estate, offered Thursday to buy out a major investor in the real estate partnership that controls the site where the 13-story Islamic center would be built.

Opponents argue it is insensitive to families and memories of Sept. 11 victims to build a mosque so close to where Islamic extremists flew planes into the World Trade Center and killed nearly 2,800 people. Proponents support the project as a reflection of religious freedom and diversity and say hatred of Muslims is fueling the opposition.

In a letter released Thursday by Trump’s publicist, Trump told Hisham Elzanaty that he would buy his stake in one of the two lower Manhattan buildings involved in the project for 25 percent more than whatever he paid – if the mosque is moved at least five blocks farther away from the trade center site.

“I am making this offer as a resident of New York and citizen of the United States, not because I think the location is a spectacular one (because it is not), but because it will end a very serious, inflammatory, and highly divisive situation that is destined, in my opinion, to only get worse,” the letter said.

Elzanaty’s response: No sale.

“This is just a cheap attempt to get publicity and get in the limelight,” said his lawyer, Wolodymyr Starosolsky.

He added that the offer’s lack of seriousness is evident in the price.

The group collectively paid $4.8 million for the building Trump offered to buy. The other is being leased.

Starosolsky said the real estate partnership had already received two offers in the ballpark of $20 million.

“He knows what the value of the building is. If he were really interested in buying the building, he would have come forward with at least $20 million,” Starosolsky said.

Starosolsky added that Elzanaty remains committed to the idea of having a mosque built on at least part of the property.

It’s unclear how much control Elzanaty has over the property, which is owned by an eight-member investment group led by El-Gamal’s real estate company, Soho Properties.

El-Gamal said Soho Properties controls the site, but didn’t elaborate. His spokesman said he couldn’t answer questions about the investment team or ownership issues.

In a pair of interviews with the AP this week, Elzanaty said he had invested in the site with an intention of making a profit and was willing to half the land for private development, and maybe all of it if a Muslim group doesn’t come forward with enough money to build the mosque.

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Associated Press Writers David B. Caruso in New York, Anne Flaherty and Lolita C. Baldor in Washington and AP Legal Affairs Writer Curt Anderson in Miami contributed to this report.

Comments (131)

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  • KnightErrantJR
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:27pm

    Please, guys, don’t give this guy any more credit than he deserves. He’s a jerk. This is a bad idea, and he didn’t think it through, and now he‘s thrilled that he’s got the public attention focused on him. He’s making the whole situation worse, and we really need to think about what he is really doing, what is really right and wrong, and rise above this kind of thing.

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    • smithfix
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:57pm

      Hard to rise above anything with a sword to your throat. Name a free country that is islamic?
      If it isn’t this it is something else. Allways pushing, always the victim, allways threatening. Is it ignorance? Stupidity? Cowardice? What is wrong with you that you will not confront evil? But that too is the history of man. Those who resist tyrany never live to see it. May cowards live forever in chains and shame.

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    • KnightErrantJR
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:04am

      I have said I am against the Ground Zero Mosque. Sharia Law is a horrible travesty. How am I not standing up to evil by saying that we don’t get to use immoral tactics just because those we oppose used them first?

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    • Sicboy
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:27am

      what immoral tactics are being used?

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    • smithfix
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 8:35am

      I support what he is doing. It is time to draw the line. Freedom of speach and religion should not be lost on our watch. To you also i say read “America Alone” and get back to me.

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  • Hugh Williams
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:21pm

    When I hear of atrocities committed in the name of Islam I am appalled. I am also appalled by all the so called Christians posting here tonight. If Christ saw the things you are posting he would be ashamed. Christ did not teach vengeance and hate. He taught tolerance and love. If your pastor is calling for the burning of the Koran you are in the wrong Church.

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    • smithfix
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:44pm

      and when your grandkids are muslims (by force) you can say “Gee, I thought prayer was all I had to do. GET OUT OF WOMENS CHURCH MAN! God said David was of his heart and David had one Blessing. He killed his enemy fast and efeciently. To be a Christian does not mean to be a coward in the face of a threat to you, your family and your Nation.

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:29am

      Well put SMITHFIX…”To be a Christian does not mean to be a coward in the face of a threat to you, your family and your Nation.”

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    • Hugh Williams
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:41am

      I have got your COWARD.

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    • Tobey
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 1:47am

      He sees, He sees everything.

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  • AzDebi
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:14pm

    You don’t suppose that if we asked the citizens of “Great” (not so Great anymore) Britain or those of France that they might just tell of similar tales when it comes to dealing with the Islamic “religion”?…here‘s the thing as far as I’m concerned…the “moderate” Muslims need to revamp their Koran and separate their “politics” from their “religion”…I just can’t get behind calling what the Koran teaches as anything that can be supported by our Constitution…anyone else see this besides me? AND just how many of you have actually taken the time to try to read the Koran? We’ve got to continue our education America…9 years on Saturday since our fellow Americans were slaughtered…I can’t even believe that with everything else we are going through, a mosque at ground zero is even a consideration by ANYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There comes a point in time where a line has to be drawn…AND…someone is lying about what happened in their meeting!

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  • dressseller
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:09pm

    I don’t know.. …but watch the other hand. …Something is not right about all of this. The PRESIDENT and/or his staff calling this 50-member leader of a rural? church.. ..Does that sound like the Barack Obama we have all come to know?…. Suddenly, he cares so much about doing the right thing..? ………Something does not add up.

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    • The Bees
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:24pm

      I know… this whole thing is like some hokey pile of BS.

      Maybe they are all auditioning for some nutty reality show.

      Imam and Pastor make eight? – I dunno – George I smell that manure stench again… I am bettin you got a pony (or Koran/Mosque – as the case maybe) in this race!

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  • WISEPENNY
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:09pm

    May the true God win!

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  • Dustyluv
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:04pm

    The President never returns my call when I call the White House…What do I have to do, burn something to get his attention? I won’t but it would be nice for him to call me so I could give him a big earful of conservatism. Even though the idiot wouldn’t listen…Call me O…I might be waiting with my matches…

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    • kralspaces
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:13pm

      I‘m still waiting for someone to call Beck’s red phone.

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    • SchrambaJamba
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:33pm

      Actually, someone did call his phone about a month/month and a half ago. I remember watching it live. Earlier in the show he held up the phone and said “call me” to the WH as he often does. Apparently on the bottom of the phone he had the number labeled on. Some random viewer must’ve caught it with his dvr and called in. It was kinda funny.

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    • Debrabate
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 7:26am

      LOL if I am not mistaken that was when he had his producer call the phone to make sure it still worked… cracked us up in my house…. I love his red phone. I do miss Joe the Phone monitor though.

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  • Joseph
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:04pm

    I think the Imam and the preacher spend too much time on Facebooks, Mafia Wars!

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  • BereanBrown
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:03pm

    So did Obama and the Imam take the same stance on national security on urging the pastor and defending the mosque location at the same time?

    They might be in each others fav five…

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 2:11pm

      this NYC imam joke IS probably obam’s covert imam!!

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  • Country
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:02pm

    What is the punishment for an imam lying anyways.

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  • Hugh Williams
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:58pm

    Usually a couple bowl of ganga relaxes me but, tonight you all seem like a bunch of narrow minded idiots. A wise man once said Live And Let Live. I am going to bed.

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  • Hugh Williams
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:49pm

    This pastor is a perfect example of what happens when you marry your sister and reproduce. There is nothing Christian in what he is doing.

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    • WISEPENNY
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:24pm

      You are making statements that point to the possibility that your family tree has no fork in it, either.

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    • smithfix
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:35pm

      and when your grandkids are muslims (by force) you can say “Gee, I thought prayer was all I had to do. GET OUT OF WOMENS CHURCH MAN! God said David was of his heart and David had one Blessing. He killed his enemy fast and efeciently. To be a Christian does not mean to be a coward in the face of a threat to you, your family and your Nation.

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    • smithfix
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:00am

      oops! stuck the above post on the wrong comment string!

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    • Tidbit
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 11:04am

      Now, do you know if this man committed incest? You are accusing him of a serious thing, Christian. But, you know, after reading all your posts, I have the impression that you aren’t the Christian you claim to be, that you are smug young person who hasn’t read very much history, and that you are somewhat of a liberal type. That’s just the impression I get from your posts. Tell me if I hit the mark…Bubba.

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  • Rock Knutne ND
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:47pm

    Imagine that…

    an Imam lying.

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  • smithfix
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:46pm

    A Man For All Seasons said:
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:37pm
    I seriously think that both sides need a little bit of kindness and charity. I don‘t want them burning bibles and they don’t want us burning korans. Look respect is earned not given but someone has to give a little somewhere or we will always have unrelenting tension and anger.

    YEA, CHAMBERLAND SAID THE SAME THING ABOUT HITLER!

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    • Hugh Williams
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:51pm

      Did you think that up all by yourself?

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    • A Man For All Seasons
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:56pm

      I meant that he shouldn‘t burn the koran and the imam shouldn’t build the mosque out of mutual respect for each other. I look around and I see a crazy world where some preacher in Florida can have profound world wide attention and impact. Both of these guys are well within their rights to do what they are doing. I just propose that maybe a little tolerance on both sides would be the best thing for all of us.

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    • Hugh Williams
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:11pm

      A ManForAll Seasons

      WELL SAID!!!!!!!!

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    • smithfix
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:22pm

      Yep, that sure worked with Hitler. Well said. Now go read some history and find where weakness stopped an agressor. Get back to me when you find it.

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    • A Man For All Seasons
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:33pm

      Mr. Smith I understand that your upset about all of this I am too. I personally have no problem with him burning a koran but I do with the mosque being built. But you have to be considerate and have some apathy like the Lord teaches us to put yourself in others shoes.

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    • smithfix
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:38pm

      Apathy – Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster DictionaryExamples of APATHY. People have shown surprising apathy toward these important social problems. People have shown a surprising apathy toward these problems. …
      MY GOD, WE ARE LOST!

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    • A Man For All Seasons
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:45pm

      i meant compassion sorry its late and i have been working hard today. lol yea if i said apathy that would have been a pretty stupid and contridicting post sorry about that lol.

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    • smithfix
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:14am

      Figured it was somthing like that. Went to the dictionary myself to be sure it didn’t have a meaning I was unaware of. lol. Has been a long day.

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  • Ammonihah
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:44pm

    Regardless, both of these men have gained by having their voices amplified greatly. They both behave like very skilled media manipulators. How many preachers in the United States have the president of the United States address their concern on a national stage.

    It’s like this incident was hand crafted to drive a wedge in the heart of America and nobody knows how to stop it.

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  • bertr
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:44pm

    This preacher from Florida is sketchy to put it kindly. however the Imam building the masque has made himself a representative of Muhammad to the western world, the most outspoken and influential one many know here now.
    If it does come out that the Imam lied or mislead I hope he would step down and/or the Muslim community denounces him as the Christian community denounced this Florida preacher

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 2:15pm

      most Americans do not realize that this is not about mosque vs koran, this is a psychological test of how far AMERICA can be blackmailed and pushed by islam, they want to see how far they can push us today, right now. they are testing AMERICA’s unity, it’s strength. if we fall to them now, and it IS all about islam vs Christianity and AMERICA the CHRISTIAN Nation, we will have hell to pay HERE ON OUR SHORES to get our country back. islam has used our nation’s principles against us.

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  • stang289
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:43pm

    this imam is connected to central florida mosque that had fundraiser for hamas. all these mosques are connected

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  • smithfix
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:41pm

    If they build the Mosque I will burn korans in Ft. Worth. Perhaps BarBQ a pig on the same grill. Time to quit letting the agressor play victim. Religion of peace my Texas A-ss.

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    • Okpulot Taha
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:58pm

      SMITHFIX comments, “If they build the Mosque I will burn korans in Ft. Worth. Perhaps BarBQ a pig on the same grill.”

      Say, were you involved in a barroom brawl down in Del Rio back in August of 1978? You sound just like a cowboy who suffered me busting a beer bottle over his head. Darn boy just stood their grinning at me. I liked that boy! You would remember me, ornery Indian girl wearing a wet T-shirt.

      Should this mosque be build on Ground Zero, this will serve as a powerful magnet for protest, vandalism, violence, maybe even periodic bombings. People will be hurt, some may die. This mosque will not be a bridge to peace, this mosque will be an iconic burning cross drawing in the worst of extremists. This mosque will always be a serious problem for America.

      Okpulot Taha
      Choctaw Nation

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    • smithfix
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:17pm

      Wasn‘t me Darlin’, but a few years back sounds like something I would have gotten myself into and gotten into (’specialy the wet t-shirt). Allas got saved, shaved and married.
      Didn’t get castrated though, as most “Christian” men seem to have been. I have no intention of my Grandkids being slaves to anyone.

       
    • Hobnob
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:32pm

      I’d be hesitant eating anything with the quran as the heat source.

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    • smithfix
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:49pm

      Give HOBNOB a koran-kabob

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    • Sicboy
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:50pm

      Tell me where, I live in Keller

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    • Sicboy
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:13am

      Just asking… Where did the Lord say to put your self in someone else’s shoes?

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    • smithfix
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:19am

      Good question. Keep following this story on Blaze. If we must do this thing I will invite folks to meet. Too bad there is no private messaging. Watch and hope it is not nessessary. But……

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    • Venom
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 4:07am

      As i live in Fort Worth, i would strongly discourage you from doing this.

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    • becklies
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 8:09am

      @sicboy:

      “Stop judging that you may not be judged; for with what judgment you are judging, you will be judged; and with the measure that you are measuring out, they will measure out to you” (Matthew 7:1-5)

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    • Tidbit
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 11:06am

      I live a short distance from FW. What times the BBQ?

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    • Reddawn
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 11:30am

      The only international threat to neo-marxism is islamic ideology. The ideology of democratic capitalism has been easy to subjugate for the marxists. Were the few remaining patriots to be consumed in a conflict with islamic ideology the chess board would be wide open for global neo-marxism.

      Islam is not the ideological enemy of the US

      1. They are sorely under-educated and disorganized, if a conflict did occur we could defeat them with rocks and sticks if needed.
      2. More importantly their ideology is anethema to our children, there is virtually no way that they could replace our ideology with theirs (a fact that even they awknowledge by way of dhimmism).

      Neo-marxists are the ideological enemy of the US (and the world)

      1. They are smarter than you. While you have enjoyed your families and cheeseburgers they have plowed forward into your government, your school curriculum, your colleges, your children. These people have made studying ideology, hegemony and rhetoric their lifes work and through those concepts they have found great power.
      2. Their ideology, by way of repackaging, can be extremely attractive to your children.

      Keep this is in mind as this global powder keg gets packed tighter. Now is the time to educate ourselves, not to lose our heads. Be pragmatic.

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  • Okpulot Taha
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:39pm

    My cowgirl hat is off to Reverend Jones! Love him or hate him, the good reverend has accomplished more in a few days than Obama has accomplished during his first two years of presidential vacation.

    Jones has drawn a firestorm of international attention to this problem of Islam and Muslims building a victory mosque atop Ground Zero. His burning or not burning the Koran is no longer of importance, Jones has our world’s attention focused on the real issue; Islam.

    Reverend Jones also has Imam Rauf’s knees buckling. Yes!

    Kudos to that crazy reverend, he has the attention of our entire world!

    Best of all, this man of God is ******* off a lot of Muslims. I like this.

    Okpulot Taha
    Choctaw Nation

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    • Joseph
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:59pm

      well all I can say is that the media has done nothing but insult him bay refering to his as Jedd Clampet, making issue of his moustach, ect.Like he never heres any of this…So some little do nothing infedel with is little do nothing church has got the attention of the Muslim world and takes them on. I don’t condone his burnning, but he has the rifght.

      Not ot get too Biblical, but doesn’t this sound farmiliar? David and Goliath? He’s taking them all on!

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    • raybojabo
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 9:29am

      For a coup de grass the good reverand should take his korans to New York and burn them at the proposed sight of the new mosque and desecrate it before ground is even broken.

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 2:10pm

      how about thousands of AMERICANS show up in front of the proposed Ground Zero mosque and the Flight 93 memorial and “consecrate” the ground …….. with porkchops and white wine. the French are TRYING to save their nation that way TOO.

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    • Tracking
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 3:15pm

      If they can refer the Reverend to Jed Clampet who will we compare Barney Frank to? LOL Now that is a nasty, nasty man….

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  • The Bees
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:39pm

    Ya know something just isn’t right with this story. I almost get the feeling that Soros is lurking in the background with a gas hose pumping right into these flames.

    This whole story stinks of something the LLM (Liberal Lefty Media) cooked up.

    George I know your lurking… the air has that manure stench again!

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  • Skip Willis
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:38pm

    He has every right to burn it. It is the wrong thing to do! Sounds kind of familiar, doesn’t it?

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  • ltb
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:38pm

    Don’t you just love the unashamed bias of the AP? “An anti-Islamic preacher… angrily accusing a Muslim leader.” While writing about the imam, I’m surprised he didn’t say something like, “The peace-loving imam, with a gleam of hope in his eyes and butterflies flying out of his rear, joyfully said….”

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    • LOGICandREASON
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:03pm

      The bias by the liberal leaning mainstream media sickens me literarily

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    • LORDHELMET
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:55am

      Well, the fact is…it IS an anti-Islamic preacher…and he IS angrily accusing the Imam…please, where is the bias?

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  • kralspaces
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:37pm

    Why did it take so long for Gates to call? Why didn’t the President call direct. Why GMA? This has become a big, big mess.

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  • Hobnob
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:34pm

    What the Vegas Odds?

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  • GlennBeckIsADemagogue
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:33pm

    no comment

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    • Hugh Williams
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:05pm

      I told you he wanted to be a martyr. Or maybe he is trying to make a career out of a false event like Al Sharpton aka Tawana Brawley.

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  • ann123
    Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:25pm

    ether do it or stop talking about it

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    • A Man For All Seasons
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:37pm

      I seriously think that both sides need a little bit of kindness and charity. I don‘t want them burning bibles and they don’t want us burning korans. Look respect is earned not given but someone has to give a little somewhere or we will always have unrelenting tension and anger.

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    • Sicboy
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:49pm

      The sad thing is, if you burn a koran, the muslims go nuts and want to kill everyone. And the media and govt says see, ALL Christians are bad. If you burn a Bible and JUST ONE Christian were to retaliate those same people would say see ALL Christians are bad.I read this week a Pastor said the koran is a “Good” book. Jesus said “I AM” there is no other way! While we may not want to punch people in the face. To run from the truth is a disgrace.

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:32pm

      If this guy burns a Koran his life insurance policy will be canceled

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    • Loyal1
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 1:52am

      The wise decision is not to do it. What would the action accomplish?

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    • aesaac
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 2:32am

      a muslim cleric lied to a christian cleric. if you cannot believe the word of a muslim cleric then . . .

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    • 79USMC83
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 6:39am

      The pastor in Florida shows TOLERANCE and will not burn Koran!! Or was he threatened by the FBI?? Now it is your turn Imam Rauf ! The building of your Mosque is a RADICAL idea to many Americans and WE THE PEOPLE protested LOUDLY to this pastor’s RADICAL idea! He was going to burn a book. JIHADISTS burned the WTC’s on Sept.11,2001!!!

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    • 79USMC83
      Posted on September 10, 2010 at 7:16am

      On Sept. 11,2001 JIHADISTS burned down the WTC’s,Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania along with 3000 Ameicans. America and the world were shocked but many Muslims danced in the streets. A radical pastor in Florida wants to burn a book and it is the American public that is outraged. The FBI is sent down right away. Where was the FBI while American troops funerals were being protested by the so-called Christian Church. No one will be dancing in the streets if he does this.One thing is for sure many of us are not going to be crying over it either!!! Already though he is being threatened and the American flag is being burned. The media spins the story as usual . It is all about the PASTOR!!! Wrong !! The story is about JIHADIST and the SHARIA LAW pigs!!! Someone and hopefully it is not one of our troops will be killed today in the name of ALLAH and SHARIA LA W!! Where is the POLITICALLY CORRECTNESS when you need it from the media?? JIHADIST and SHARIA LAW come from the KORAN. Not some pator in Florida,not the Palistine State issue or any othe Western policy. Imam Rauf and the RADICAL MUSLIM’s want it to become a “HOLY WAR” What the pastor is doing is playing right into their hands. Great soundbites for the Muslims to use to preach JIHAD!!!

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