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Another US minister plans Koran burning to mark 9/11 anniversary
 AS US President Barack Obama condemned a Florida pastor's proposed public Koran burning, another minister planned a similar demonstration to mark the anniversary of September 11.
| Sigh, we're going to see a number of these. |
Reverend Bob Old of Springfield, Tennessee - just 48 km north of Nashville - said he intended to set fire to a Koran at his home on Saturday and post a video of the burning Muslim holy book online, The Tennessean reports.
| Thus demonstrating that Old Bob is a moron ... |
"If they want to have their religion, they can have it somewhere else," Reverend Old reportedly said of Muslims.
| That's not what our founding documents say. |
"I believe that other religions are a threat to our faith and our beliefs," said Reverend Old, who heads an evangelical ministry called Disciples of Christ, though he was once pastor of two Baptist congregations in Tennessee. "People may say that I am crazy,
but I am not."
| Okay, maybe you're just an idiot. Choose. |
Meanwhile, other Tennessee religious leaders denounced the minister's plans.
"The guy is a nut," Reverend Larry Herbert of Faith Covenant Church in Springfield told The Tennessean. "This is crazy. I am sorry that anyone who names the name of Christ would do this."
| Christ chased the moneylenders from the Temple, but I don't recall Him ever burning any scrolls. |
Amir Arain, spokesman for the Islamic Centre of Nashville, told the paper he hoped Reverend Old would change his mind before Saturday.
"We will pray that God gives him wisdom," he said.
The local controversy over Reverend Old's plans comes amid a national controversy over Reverend Terry Jones' proposed public Koran burning in Gainesville, Florida.
Mr Obama said in an interview broadcast today that the burning in Florida would be a "recruitment bonanza for al-Qaeda," to which Reverend Jones responded that he would reconsider his protest if he received a call from the White House.
| Koran burning plays into the narrative the MFM would like to build of racist, tea-party knuckledragging conservatives who will bring down the temple of light and sweet reason come November. Reverends Jones and Old should put a sock on it. |
Posted by: tipper 2010-09-09 |
