. UNITED STATES: POLITICS : RELIGION : PROTEST :UNITED STATES: MILITARY: Burning Quran Perhaps Not The Best Idea, Says General David Petraeus
Burning Quran Perhaps Not The Best Idea, Says General David Petraeus September 7, 2010 NPR The Two Way<http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/09/07/129704455/ burning-koran-perhaps-not-the-best-idea-says-general-david-petraeus>
A shorter URL for the above link: <http://tinyurl.com/2a62vo3>As we reported earlier, this Weekend, on Sept. 11 no less, the Dove World Outreach Center is planning on burning a whole bunch of Quran. On their website they helpfully state they are doing it as an "act of love nor of hate," but rather because the "world is in bondage to the massive grip of the lies of Islam."
On their website they then go on to offer ten reasons that burning Korans is a very, very good idea.
Not so much, according to the commander of US and international forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus. Yesterday, just rumors of the burning led to hundreds of Afghans burning American flags, an effigy of the pastor calling for the book burning, and throwing rocks at a US convoy.
Today, Petraeus issued a statement saying basically, this is a really, really bad idea:
Images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan and around the world to inflame public opinion and incite violence. Such images could, in fact, be used as were the photos from Abu Gharyb. And this would, again, put our troopers and civilian in jeopardy and undermine our efforts to accomplish the critical mission here in Afghanistan
In 2005, 15 people died and scores more were injured in Afghanistan after rumors spread false ones, mind you that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had flushed a Quran down a toilet. Actual images of actual Korans being set aflame may have an even more powerful impact.
And this at a time when the whole thrust of the American adventure in Afghanistan is trying to woo the Afghan populace over to our side. At least General Petraeus seems to think burning their holy book is most likely not the quickest path to winning their hearts and minds.
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