Bloomberg: Koran Burning Legal but "Distasteful"
The AP reports:
NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Tuesday that a Florida minister's plan to burn the Muslim holy book on Sept. 11 is "distasteful," but that the minister has a right to do it.
Bloomberg was asked about Pastor Terry Jones' plan to burn copies of the Quran on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the terror attacks, amid a national debate about a planned Islamic center near ground zero. Jones is the pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center, a small, evangelical Christian church with an anti-Islam philosophy in Gainesville, Fla.
"In a strange way, I'm here to defend his right to do that. I happen to think that it is distasteful. I don't think he would like it if somebody burned a book that in his religion he thinks is holy," the mayor said following a news conference about the progress of the reconstruction at the World Trade Center site.
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