ScreamingEagle
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This guy has every right to oppose the ground zero mosque and burn Korans on 9/11......or have you freedom-loving liberals changed your minds about free speech....and forgotten about all those Bibles and U.S. flags that you've burned in the past...?
Seems like President Obama doesn't care much about free speech....he laid it on about the Constitutional right to freedom of religion and the Immam's right to build a mosque at ground zero....but then attempts to silence Pastor Jones....why don't you defend his Constitutional right to free speech, Mr. Obama? Or are you just a quisling that cows from our radical enemies?
Rev. Terry Jones repeated his claim on Friday's news program that he was promised the Ground Zero mosque would be moved on the condition he'd cancel a koran-burning rally on the anniversary of 9/11.
So…will he or won't he?
Despite being ripped by world leaders for his flip-flop on planning to burn copies of the Koran, Rev. Terry Jones continued his media blitz on Friday morning, appearing on several cable news morning shows to defend himself.
It's still unclear if the Koran burnings will take place.
Jones repeated his claim that he called off the Koran burnings at his congregation in Florida on the anniversary of Sept. 11, only after he was promised the proposed mosque at Ground Zero would be moved. He called Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, founder of the mosque project, a liar.
What began as two separate stories—the proposed mosque at Ground Zero and the planned Koran burnings— oddly melded into one on Thursday.
"I asked him three or four times. I said ‘let me make this clear, if we cancel our event on Saturday, then the mosque in New York City will be moved from its present location. He said yes. There was absolutely no doubt about it," Jones said on NBC's "Today."
Rauf denied that a mosque-move deal was ever on the table. He also said he never spoke to Jones or Imam Muhammad Musri of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, the supposed go-between.
Jones said that he still plans to meet with Rauf in New York on Saturday, and if that meeting happens, he will not burn the Korans. It was still unclear if he'd ultimately go ahead with his plans.
He also told CBS' "The Early Show" on Friday that "Right now, we have called the event off, based upon the offer that the Imam gave us." The pastor's statements left open the possibility that the Koran burning could still take place on Saturday evening.
Even amid all the confusion, world leaders slammed Jones.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya called Jones a "religious criminal" and "retard that expresses a Western-retarded mentality" CNN reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and United Nations Secretary-General Bank Ki-moon, all condemned proposed burning.
Even President Obama urged him to call it off, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates took the extraordinary step of phoning Jones personally, appealing to him not to put U.S. soldiers in danger by staging "International Burn a Koran Day."
Read more: Pastor Terry Jones goes on morning media blitz, clarifies little about burning Korans, mosque
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