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Cherished American right under fire
by EZRA LEVANT https://www.legal-project.org/778/cherished-american-right-under-fire Excerpt: Terry Jones, the Florida pastor whose greatest accomplishment until last month was growing a Hulk Hogan moustache, did not go through with his reality-TV threat to burn a stack of Qur'ans on the anniversary of 9/11. It took a phone call from the U.S. Secretary of Defense to talk him out of it. Even David Petraeus, the four-star general charged with leading the war on terror on a day-to-day basis, cleared everything less important from his schedule to do a TV interview on the subject. Speaking of the Pentagon, they're not averse to a little book-burning themselves. Last spring, they confiscated a stash of Bibles sent to the U.S. base in Bagram. The Bibles were written in the Afghan languages of Pashto and Dari. It's illegal for U.S. soldiers to evangelize religion, and the brass guessed that was the purpose of the books. So they were confiscated them and, like all trash, the Bibles were burned. Read the complete original version of this item... receive the latest by email: subscribe to the legal project's free mailing list Note: The content of external articles does not necessarily reflect the views of The Legal Project. |
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