Obama Says He Ordered Defense Secretary Gates to Personally Call Koran Burning Pastor
From Weasel Zippers:
Strangely, Obama spent a great deal of time during today’s press conference defending Muslims but didn’t mention anything about Christian persecution in Islamic countries, I’m sure it just slipped his mind.
(The Hill)- In a press conference designed to defend his economic policies, President Obama waded deeper into religious tensions gripping the nation by speaking out forcefully in defense of religious pluralism.
Speaking a day before the nine-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Obama made a passionate plea to Americans to differentiate between terrorists and Muslims.
“We have to make sure that we don’t start turning on each other,” an impassioned Obama said at his first full press conference since May. “And I will do everything that I can as long as I’m president of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation, under God. And we may call that God different names, but we remain one nation.”
While the president spent a great deal of time discussing the “painfully slow” economic recovery and the midterm elections, the majority of the press conference centered on a discussion about U.S. relations with the Muslim world. The summer congressional recess has been dominated by debates surrounding the plans of a New York group to build an Islamic Center blocks from Ground Zero, and a Florida pastor’s plan, now suspended, to burn copies of the Quran.
While Obama sounded professorial and rehearsed as he repeated his talking points on the economy and the midterms, the president projected a solemn and somewhat impatient tone as he discussed the divide between the U.S. and the Muslim world.
As commander in chief, Obama said he asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to call Florida pastor Terry Jones, whom Obama did not name, and ask that he not go forward with the Quran burning.
As I said in several posts and their comments sections today, the FBI visited Pastor Jones, the Secretary of Defense called him, and Obama spoke negatively of Pastor Jones' intentions.
There is no law against burning the Koran, the flag, or any other totemic figure.
Therefore, it is clear our Federal government is attempting to intimidate this Pastor so that he will not exercise his First Amendment Right to speak out against Islam in the way he sees fit.
Because our government has crossed the line into intimidation under the color of the authority of their offices, IT BECOMES INCUMBENT UPON US, ALL OF US INDIVIDUALS, TO STAND AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT'S INTIMIDATION TACTICS.
At this juncture, the best way for us to do so is to do exactly what they are trying to scare Pastor Jones into not doing.
It is incumbent upon us all to burn copies of the Koran, and to do so in a public manner.
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OT - happy ramadan - bang bang
Co-Worker Calls Alleged Shooter: "Very Spiritual"
"She's not a loose cannon. She's a hard worker, works very hard. She's very spiritual."
Kenneth Dorsey says the woman accused of killing two co-workers and critically injuring a third at the Kraft plant in Northeast Philly is a good person. And so were the two women she's accused of gunning down with a .357 Magnum, just minutes after she'd been suspended and escorted from the building.
Dorsey's been at the plant for 37 years and worked on the third floor with the three victims and the alleged shooter, Yvonne Hiller.
"They had argued, from what I was told, they argued," Dorsey told NBC10's Rosemary Connors after the shootings Thursday night.
"I had just started my job, you know and I heard like bang, bang, but you hear noises everyday at a bakery so you don't pay any mind." Then a co-worker yelled, "Come on, you got to leave now! She's shooting."
After the shootings, Hiller holed up in an office on the second floor where the SWAT team found her after co-workers who were hiding in the office next door tipped off building security.
"I never thought in my deepest heart that it would come down to this," Dorsey said.
Some co-workers said she had a history of run-ins with other workers and management, Dorsey said like anyone, they sometimes had their differences, but always got along.
"We talked about her Muslim faith and I wished her happy Ramadan," Dorsey said. "I might be wrong, but my guess is she had some people that she had issues with and a personal agenda, a score she had to settle."
Dorsey said the shooting was going to be hard on everyone. "We're like family here."
"Tell your audience to keep the families in your prayers, however you pray -- whether you're Jewish, Christian, Muslim -- we're all in shock...and I lost two of my closest friends. . .I'm gonna go home and take a shower and read the Bible and pray. Hopefully, I can get through this.
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