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Pakistani ambassador to Glenn Beck: Please help stop the Koran-burning
“I think it would help if Mr. Glenn Beck came out against it, and said that people of faith do not burn the books of people of other faith,” Husain Haqqani told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Beck earlier this week wrote in an Internet blog posting that burning the Quran is like burning the flag or the Bible — something people can do in the United States, but shouldn’t.
“Our good Muslim friends and neighbors will be saddened,” he wrote. “It makes the battle that they face inside their own communities even harder.”
It was unclear whether Haqqani was aware of the blog posting. A telephone message left with the Pakistani Embassy was not immediately answered.
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What the eff just happened.
Emily M. on September 9, 2010 at 8:10 AM
When will Pakistan stop burning US flag?
promachus on September 9, 2010 at 8:10 AM
What the hell does Glenn Beck have to do with this?
Sorry, Petraeus was absolutely WRONG for getting into this… he elevated the importance of this nut exponentially… if he wanted to weigh in he should have called the guy up himself and had a talk.
ninjapirate on September 9, 2010 at 8:11 AM
Or what? Veiled threats of violence like the GZM imam on Larry King last night?
Monica on September 9, 2010 at 8:11 AM
Seriously…did someone ask him about Beck or did he just suddenly throw this out there? This is…bizarre and confuzzling.
Emily M. on September 9, 2010 at 8:11 AM
While I will not comment on the wisdom of burning the koranqurancorawn, I want to see how many people will be so outraged about the next urinejesus or virginsuicidebomber?
Anyone… anyone…
Bueller… Bueller…
singlemalt_18 on September 9, 2010 at 8:13 AM
“I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding.”
– President B. H. Obama on the
Ground Zero MosqueBook Burningrogerb on September 9, 2010 at 8:13 AM
Guess who Pakistan takes more seriously than the President.
Disturb the Universe on September 9, 2010 at 8:13 AM
So the ambassador thinks Beck has great influence while the DC gang has little credibility.
Sounds about right to me. heh
GnuBreed on September 9, 2010 at 8:15 AM
The Pak ambassador knows that Beck has to be at work everyday. Getting a hold of PBHO means having to call every golf course in the nation until you find the right one.
Bishop on September 9, 2010 at 8:15 AM
Sarah Palin came out against it. And what can Glenn Beck do?
Sekhmet on September 9, 2010 at 8:19 AM
Does the Paki ambassador speak out against the horrible repressions of Christians in his own country? How about the Christians who were burned alive recently when their church was set on fire with them in it? Worry about the log in your own eye dude.
tommyboy on September 9, 2010 at 8:19 AM
Couldn’t agree more about that. And then the rest who later piled on have made this into an international incident and a pretext for who knows what.
petefrt on September 9, 2010 at 8:27 AM
Interesting to know who Pakistani’s respect in the U.S. media world.
Beck should have him on and ask him about why does not stop the US and Israel flag burning, why his country is helping the Taliban, when was the last time the Pakistan ambassador spoke out for Christian rights in his country, on and on and on and on…
albill on September 9, 2010 at 8:27 AM
Don’t burn! Instead, throw them into the recycle bin or put the pages on a roll.
Annar on September 9, 2010 at 8:28 AM
I might have to burn one myself!
MadDogF on September 9, 2010 at 8:30 AM
Hannity tried to get the guy to reconsider yesterday on his program… as usual, Hannity missed several opportunities to bring the point home… the guy was open to canceling the event.
In the end, this is stupid on all sides and on so many levels… it’s some tiny, podunk congregation and all they are doing is burning a few Korans. They’re not hurting anyone. Sure, I don’t think they should do it… but why does anyone really care?
mankai on September 9, 2010 at 8:30 AM
I imagine the radicals would love to suck Beck into this mess up to his eyeballs, using him to fan the flames, but I’m thinking he’s much too smart to let that happen.
petefrt on September 9, 2010 at 8:30 AM
Or place it in jar and fill with urine, display in NYC museum as art.
Monica on September 9, 2010 at 8:31 AM
You know, I was with the heroes of fahrenheit 451. Now, I’m not so sure.
OldEnglish on September 9, 2010 at 8:34 AM
Bingo!
Personally, I’m waiting for the mass riots in the “Muslim World”. They will burn and destroy their own property and with any luck, some of the idiots will kill themselves.
Anyone who thinks that this will trigger so called moderate Muslims to convert to radicalism doesn’t understand the situation. These people are trained from a young age to hate America. They are fed lies and propaganda their whole life. One book burning is moot.
BierManVA on September 9, 2010 at 8:34 AM
THREAD WINNER!
mizflame98 on September 9, 2010 at 8:35 AM
I had to LOL – yesterday a guy called John Osterlund’s radio show on WRNO (New Orleans) …
The guy said he was calling from the interstate in Mississippi – and he was on his way to this Koran burning. He said he called the minister who’s doing this two days ago – and he actually got through to the guy and talked to him.
He said he wanted to KNOW – is he really going to burn the Koran? Or is this just a stunt?
He said the minister said he was certainly going to burn the Koran – that this wasn’t a stunt.
The man said …
I told him if he REALLY was going to do – I’d take him at his word and drive down to witness this burning – after which I pledged to give his church $5,000 – but only if they burned the Koran!
My position on this is that it’s stupid – but if I have to put up with a Mosque at ground zero (and now the guy who’s building that thing is promising MORE terrorist attacks if he’s not allowed to build it) … if I have to put up with that kind of “outreach” from the Muslim world I will damn sure back the burning of Korans as our own form of “outreach” to the Mohammedan community.
Am I an “Islamophobe”? No more than the Norther Abolitionists were “Southernophobes”. I reserve the right to despise any philosophy that treats women as dogs and orders it’s followers to commit suicide and kill innocents for their “God”.
Regis … that’s my final answer!
HondaV65 on September 9, 2010 at 8:35 AM
When our own military burns bibles in Afganistan I don’t see where the General gets the moral authority to speak out on someone burning korans in American.
tommyboy on September 9, 2010 at 8:39 AM
And in upping the rhetoric-level to 11, the Won himself weighs in: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100909/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_quran_burning_obama_plea
jwehman on September 9, 2010 at 8:41 AM
Burning the Koran is wrong.
But I will defend their right to do it.
Skywise on September 9, 2010 at 8:47 AM
Actually Beck and his cohorts have been on vacation this week and a bunch of Double-A call-ups have been filling the airwaves.
darwin-t on September 9, 2010 at 8:52 AM
I’m not in favor of burning the Koran, just like I’m not in favor of burning bibles or US flags. But the idea that we have to stop this pastor from exercising his first amendment rights because if we don’t Muslims will kill Americans really pi$$es me off. How many rights are we going to have to give up to keep Muslim fanatics happy? If we give in here, where does it end? All the threats are making me a supporter of Pastor Jones.
mbs on September 9, 2010 at 8:54 AM
If the book burning is done by the Government, I agree. But personal freedom to disagree with the message of the Koran or any other book is a foundation of Liberty that should not be condemned.
Would burning “Mein Kampf” be wrong? A copy of “O” magazine? A “Hustler”?
Islam: “The religion of perpetual outrage.”
-Michelle Malkin
BierManVA on September 9, 2010 at 8:55 AM
Wow, these guys are so brave – burning a dead tree.
/sarc
Niko on September 9, 2010 at 9:04 AM
The Islamo-fascists care because it gives them an opportunity to claim that all Americans hate all Muslims, regardless of the mass of evidence to the contrary.
The media cares because it gives them an opportunity to portray all of Christian America as Islamophobic rubes and inbred cretins.
Many of the rest of us care because it gives the Islamo-fascists and lamestream media scum more anti-American sh*t to throw against the wall and we’re just farking tired of it.
Extrafishy on September 9, 2010 at 9:08 AM
My first thought too, rather stunning isn’t it?
wi farmgirl on September 9, 2010 at 9:29 AM
Yes.
Recycle. Re-use. Renew.
Do it for the children.
pseudonominus on September 9, 2010 at 9:57 AM
That’s the money quote right there!!
KinleyArdal on September 9, 2010 at 9:59 AM
It does remind me of people getting their feelings hurt here when the US flag is burned. I remember it really bothered Bush #41 to see the flag burned. But people who get upset about flag-burning don’t get violent, because we’re a civilized people, a nation of laws. Other people (even in the US — see the Rodney King trial) riot when they get upset. In the US, that’s an exception. But, Afghanistan is not a nation of laws. We’re lucky that way. We should take that into account.
Paul-Cincy on September 9, 2010 at 10:03 AM
This is America, world. Suck it up. We’re not a nice country. We’re a free country.
I’d throw a copy of the Koran on the flames if I were around, just for the pleasure of knowing that this is something punishable by death in many places around the world. Not here. Here, we are still free. Free to be obnoxious, true. But free.
bonnie_ on September 9, 2010 at 10:12 AM
mbs on September 9, 2010 at 8:54 AM
Yeah, because Allah knows the right to poke someone in the eye By Any Means Necessary is such a sacred, God-Given right.
You must also think that Shirley Phelps-Roper’s picketing of military funerals is such a non-controveral expression of free-speech.
BradSchwartze on September 9, 2010 at 10:18 AM
I mulled this over a few times in my head, wondering how best to respond. In the end, I decided that there was no way that reason was going to work with such an obviously foolish commenter, so I decided to go with my first instinct.
And that is:
Hi there!
You’re a flaming idiot!!!
Have a nice day!
KinleyArdal on September 9, 2010 at 10:53 AM
Each time I read or see a reaction to the planned burning of the book on State/Religiously Approved pedophilia and murder en masse, I become a little less on the fence about it, and lean a little more towards encouraging the book to be burnt.
KinleyArdal on September 9, 2010 at 10:55 AM
He would have more credibility if he had previously spoken out about the routine burning of Bibles and other non-Islamic religious items in Saudi Arabia. He would have more credibility if he had previously spoken out about the flag-burners of the so-called “Islamic Thinkers Society” in New York, or the abuse and second class status (at best!) non-Muslims face in Islamic societies.
The contrast between our values and theirs could not be more striking. We may disapprove, but we tolerate offensive but otherwise harmless protests. Most of us disapprove of the proposed Ground-Zero mosque, but few question the right to build a mosque there.
We are about to see a display of Islamist tolerance for dissenting views. It isn’t going to be pretty, but the same shrinking world that permits Islamist terrorists to threaten the world from caves in the hinterlands also prevents them from hiding indefinitely the ugly truth about the seventh century barbarity they represent.
novaculus on September 9, 2010 at 11:00 AM