Palin: Koran Burning 'Un-American'
On Facebook, Sarah Palin condemned a Florida church's plans to burn a copy of the Koran. Politics Daily reports:
Sarah Palin was once accused of trying to ban books in her hometown library. But as for burning the Koran, she's opposed.
On Wednesday, Palin wrote a Facebook post entitled "Koran Burning Is Insensitive, Unnecessary; Pastor Jones, Please Stand Down." Book burning, she wrote, is "antithetical to American ideals."
The post was in response to Gainesville, Fla., pastor Terry Jones and his church's plan to burn more than 200 copies of the Koran on Sept. 11. Jones is the pastor of Dove World Outreach Center, "a New Testament, Charismatic, Non-Denominational Church," according to its Web site. Jones and his church members believe "Islam is of the Devil."
In her post, Palin said that people have the constitutional right to burn a Koran but that it is "insensitive and an unnecessary provocation – much like building a mosque at Ground Zero."
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