It must be said from the outset that
the off again/on again would-be
Koran bonfire builder, a Christian
church pastor from Gainesville,
Florida, has been behaving like a
careless lunatic.
From a purely Christian standpoint,
there is absolutely nothing
evangelical, ecumenical or Golden
Rule-evocative about such an action.
Burning Korans would only drive people further from
accepting the saving grace of our
Lord and might have the
opposite effect; that of
making non-Christians more
sympathetic to the very teachings
that
Rev. Terry Jones
wishes to discredit.
The president weighed in on the
Koran-burning controversy calling it
"a
recruitment bonanza for al-Qaeda" during an
interview yesterday with George Stephanopoulos
on Good Morning
America.
There
are few Americans, from General
David
Petraeus to this renegade scribe,
who don't agree whole-heartedly with Obama's
opinion in this particular instance.
"This stunt that he is talking about
pulling could greatly endanger our
young men and women in uniform who
are in Iraq, who are in Afghanistan.
You could have serious violence in
places like Pakistan or Afghanistan.
This could increase the recruitment
of individuals who'd be willing to
blow
themselves up in American cities, or
European cities,"
Obama
clarified his point.
Oddly enough, this is the very first
time during the entire national
political life of Barack Obama that
he has ever expressed any worry
whatsoever that Islamic terrorists
would enjoy a "recruitment bonanza"
as a result of careless
anti-American lunacy.
Before he took office candidate Obama promised that
closing the Guantanamo enemy
combatant detention facility would
be a top priority.
Before and during his time in the
White House he has vehemently
advocated that terms like "Islamic
terrorist" and "The War on
Terror" should be eliminated from
our national vocabulary and that
clear-cut instances of terrorism --
the events of 9/11/2001 included --
must be dealt with as criminal acts
referred to in such euphemistic
terms as "man-caused disasters".
When Attorney General Eric Holder
proposed to forgo military tribunals
in favor of federal criminal court
trials
(to include those to be
held in one of the world's media
capitals, just a short walk from
Ground Zero)
for admitted 9/11
collaborators, Obama gave his tacit
approval.
Later, when Holder demanded that
foreign terrorists
(including the two would-be airliner
bombers apprehended during the Obama
presidency)
be Mirandized and treated exactly as
American citizens would be in these
"criminal" matters, Obama agreed
that such is their Constitutional
right.
Even during the ongoing Ground Zero
Mosque controversy
(which,
it appears, is the impetus for Rev.
Jones' idea to burn Korans on 9/11)
the president has not tried to
persuade mosque supporters to
consider an alternate site.
Instead, he has reiterated
(as recently as during today's White
House press conference)
that mosques and al Qaida have nothing to
do with each other; presumably not even when
they are located within the debris
cloud paths of the collapsing Twin
Towers at a site that had been
coated with that horrible material
containing pulverized remains of the
victims of extremist Islamic
terrorists.
Of course, in the hypocritical Left
Turn Only Obama Zone, "stunts" like
the aforementioned represent no
"recruitment bonanza" for al Qaida,
the Taliban and/or other Islamic
terror groups.
Meanwhile, an ever-growing number of
reality-driven Americans believe
that the administration has been
just as careless as Obama
accuses Rev. Jones of being.
They
have been just as guilty as the
"pastor" of
behaving like careless lunatics.