Associated Press Orders No Pictures Shown of Burned Korans; Burned Christian Bibles, Not So Much; Update: Koran Burn Canceled
**Written by Doug Powers
Hot off the press from the AP’s Department of Double Standards we find this:
09/09/2010
AP Press Release
Memo to AP staff from Standards Center: Guidance – planned Sept. 11 Quran burning
Colleagues,
As you know, a group known as the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., has announced that it intends to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11.
[...]
The concept of this planned event is offensive to many Muslims worldwide. National leaders and spokesmen for other religious denominations have also found the plan repugnant.Should the event happen on Saturday, the AP will not distribute images or audio that specifically show Qurans being burned, and will not provide detailed text descriptions of the burning. With the exception of these specific images and descriptions, we expect to cover the Gainesville event, in all media, placing the actions of this group of about 50 people in a clear and balanced context.
Last year, the AP didn’t appear to think twice before showing pictures of burned Christian bibles:
Update: Koran burn called off, AP photo editors’ weekend just got less stressful:
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The anti-Muslim leader of a tiny Florida church backed off his threat to burn the Quran, defusing an international firestorm Thursday after he said he was promised that a planned Islamic center and mosque would be moved away from New York’s ground zero. The imam planning the center, however, quickly denied such a deal.
Throughout this whole flap, did you feel like the lunch meat of sanity unwillingly trapped between two slices of kookbread in a wacko sandwich? “An exercise in over-reaction” doesn’t begin to sum it up.
(h/t WZ)
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In other words news is happening…
AP: (covering eyes and ears) “lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalal”
That’s because Christians don’t slit the throats of people who offend them.
Muslims hanging the brutalizd bodies of dead Americans from bridges…
AP: If it bleeds it leads!
The AP which has doctored photos doesn’t want to photograph the crispy koran. Go figure.
(spew!) Bwahahahahahahahahaha!
Don’t want to get anyone…ya know….beheaded.
Liberals call conservatives fear mongers. They are pee their pants scared of Muslims. No mongering necessary.
It’s interesting to see how one person, in a dinky Florida backwater, has caused so much commotion. Let him burn the koran, & be done with it. So what if “hundreds of Afghani’s..” are rioting. What else do they have on their “to do list” for today? I’ve pretty much had it with burning the Flag, murdering Westerners, uttering threats & demanding sharia law. SCREW THEM.
Interesting. They were, however, willing to show and tell us all about the koran being flushed down a toilet.
And liberals all over this country burn the U.S. flag because that’s free speech. I’m not sure how a physical act became speech, but liberals love to burn things. Except the koran, which they hold in high reverence.
Go here and read the comments under the cartoon. That pretty much explains it.
the AP is a bunch of scaredy-cat(fish)
TooMuchTime…reminds me of little Ralphie Wiggum of Simpson’s fame:
‘…and that’s where I see the leprechaun–he tells me to burn things!’
yee-AH! they be blazin’ that sh!t!
Liberal Fascists have been burning books for quite some time now. People, too. It gets their activist juices flowing.
In this instance, it’s a church pastor that is doing this, not so much to destroy every last copy of the book (as a liberal fascist would do), but more as a publicity stunt.
Ever see the movie Fahrenheit 451? Don’t forget that the gov’t in that movie was a socialist dictatorship. The schools were all run by the gov’t. And the serfs were taught that burning books was good for them.
Ain’t socialism wonnerful?
They burn me up.
Does this surprise anyone? Just another example of cowardice in the face of Islam.
I believe this was said in another thread: that’s because Christians won’t behead you if you get them angry.
I’m pretty sure they also showed a burning Koran during Israel’s invasion of Lebanon a few years back. Along with burning stuffed animals and that woman that always shows up holding a couple of bullets and wailing about how her house had been knocked over.
With this ONE memo, the absolute bias of the AP is on FULL display!
The AP has admitted that they CENSOR news stories as they see fit!
How many stories about Barak Obama, and other Democrat politicians, has the AP CENSORED?
How many stories about Democrats will the AP CENSOR in this election cycle?
How many FRAUDULENT stories about Republicans does the AP support?
Are there any more questions regarding WHY most people no longer trust MANY of the media stories?
Feel free to switch Republican with Democrat in the above questions if you like. The point is that the AP has admitted it is BIASED!
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/246033/burning-questions-andrew-c-mccarthy?page=2
Excellent perspective by McCarthy
“With the exception of these specific images and descriptions,”
So, how are they going to talk about it without talking about it?
Islam is alike a protected cult species or something.
I am just afraid that if you burn the Koran, it will multiply. Like the Gremlins. Or cockroaches. Or Moose slums. I hope I’m wrong.
I don’t want to see anymore photos of Code Pink hags, Michael Moore, or Rep. Waxman’s face–which should be a fair trade with the AP–as they also offend the eyes and cause internal fartwas (fatwas) to us infidels.
When I first heard about the burning of the Koran, I felt it was provacative, and shouldn’t be done, but now that we have been threatened by these Mohammid worshipers, I say go for it!! I am tired of their blood thirsty rioting at every thing.
I’m tired of them trying to play victim. And it’s like the veiled threat about the mosque at ground zero. I’m tired of us being the ones to give over to these slaves to the koran.
Drudge is reporting that Jones has agreed to call off the burning because he is claiming that Rauf has agreed to move the GZ mosque to a new location.
This is developing fast. The Donald is involved now too.
Yeah, Phil, and the Westboro nutjobs are picking up the slack. I hope the media ignore them.
If any of these creeps come near me or my family, they will find out how it feels to be beheaded…with an iron skillet. Believe me, they have no idea who they are messing with. I don’t have a gun, but the skillet is always nearby. Actually, I might have a gun…but I’m not telling.
Yes, I had no sooner posted that a Fox News alert said that the Koran buring was off. Chalk up another win for Muslims!
Phil it’s more likely that McCain will become a true conservative.
I trust that imam as far as I can throw his building. On this one I truly hope I am wrong.
That does it. I am NEVER going to Minnesota. Too dangerous! Crazy ladies beheading people with iron skillets. It’s a horror show!!!
???????????????????????? HUH?
She lies….. They use lefsa pans for the beheadings in Minnesota.
From the other thread…
Also just heard that imam is disowning the report…hard to know what’s what…
Tanya, Luftubermann (is that German?):
Trump has offered to pay 25% more for the majority stake in the GZ mosque investor group. I don’t know if he is just legitimizing the investor group and intending to build the mosque or simply taking control of the project to buy the location by crowding out the other investors or something else.
This is probably not a win for Muslims. And the Westboro “church” is mainly the pastor’s immediate family. Hardly a church. Just another example of the MSM creating celebrities to justify its agenda. Like Cindy Sheehan.
Ya know, I have a hard time believing Rauf believes that the mosque will be built. There is a reason why they only have a few thousand dollars of financing lined up. There is probably a “wait and see” attitude among the secret potential investors. And having the project come to a complete standstill costs money. This impasse could not continue forever.
This could just be what he needed to back down but save face. It could be that they were just looking for a way out.
The AP is Obamas Lapdog as well as there rest of the Alphabet news and I agree – AP has no problem with the Westboro bunch but when it comes to anything Islam related – their collective cans are in the air.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/09/09/beyond-belief-koran-burning-called-off-in-exchange-for-moving-ground-zero-mosque/
It is “developing”…
That poor Jed Clampett guy fell for the peaceful religion’s taq’qiya.
It is “developing”…
Yes Rags, thanks for straightening me out by pointing out something I said in my very first comment at 5:21pm. What was I thinking?
I’m going to draw a cartoon of the quran and burn that. Wha’cha think Rageboy would say?
Philly,
You will, I hope, note the cite to something I thought would benefit others here.
Sorry if you felt your tail was stepped on, dear.
Where’s your proof, BTW? You know what I mean.
I’m going to repeat what I said yesterday…
I don’t like the idea of burning books. Period.
But it would be interesting if Terry Jones would be willing to gather 1 of each of the world’s religious holy books, and burn them all. It would be interesting to see which religion’s followers are generally tolerant of this offensive act, and which religion’s followers actively seek his execution.
It would be enlightening to see which religions are truly a “religion of peace”…
Uh…. the link? Maybe you could stop trying to be the moderator at every thread you join in on? Just sayin’. Your act has really gotten old and obnoxious.
Master Projectionist, Philly.
The FL preacher is not going to burn this thing, but that below slug slime phelps said he would. These two, phelps and that FL gay are one and the same. They want to crater us with riots all over the world.
L
The picture in this post has a caption which includes the following:
On the prior thread, WarEagle82 said:
The linked article says (emphasis mine):
OK, so if unsolicited Korans were sent to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, then the same rules would be applied equally and the Korans would be burned, right?
RIGHT?!?!
If not, why not?
Why is the Koran treated with more respect than the Bible?
Why is it that when Bibles are burned, not even the most “extreme” Christian would even think of beheading someone, but when plans are made to burn a Koran, large numbers of followers of the so-called “religion of peace” threaten executions and mass violence?
Remember that a certain tactical optics company (Trijicon?) that supplies aiming devices for the military’s M-4′s, was chastised, and forced to remove biblical scripture from inside the optics…so as not to offend the Muslims that our soldiers were targeting, and shooting.
I’m not offended by Trijicon’s practice of offering comforting Christian scriptures inside their optical sights, just as I’m sure Muslims are not offended by the crazed jihadist murderers screaming Allahu Akbar when they fire off their mortar shells, and IED’s at our soldiers….
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/09/09/beyond-belief-koran-burning-called-off-in-exchange-for-moving-ground-zero-mosque/
More developments…
(Oh, gawd, I forgot to ask Philly’s permission to post to
hisMichelle’s site…)It’s like during the first Gulf War when one of the main fears the Saudis had in allowing our troops to be based in their country was the fear that Christian blood might contaminate their sand. In fact, this is even worse. We are ostensibly in Afghanistan fighting for Afghanis. The blood of foreign soldiers dying defending them is an insult?
Let’s get out of there. It’s just not worth it. There are cheaper ways to defend our national interests that don’t require so much loss of life by Americans.
Actually, right_on, the inscriptions were on the OUTSIDE of the sights, and the people objecting were DOMESTIC crazies.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/slideshow?id=9580847
I say we shoot the spit out of em when they do that…!!!
Say, Philly, (con su permiso) I Googled
Saudi Christian blood sand
It didn’t return anything LIKE your claim.
Got a link?
You’d better believe it! My husband does. And Flyoverman…lefsa pans work pretty well, but not quite heavy enough. They do have sharper edges, though.
Could be looked at 2 ways:
First, that the elites couldn’t care less about offending Christians by publishing pictures of burnt pages from the Bible. But since Islam is their favorite religion du jour they dont want to do anything that would offend the followers of the religion of peace.
OR
Second, that most people understand that if you offend 5th century savages, it could cause them to wreak more mayhem than usual on the world, and the AP is concerned about doing that to their fellow man.
Nope. It’s BOTH. Remember Comedy Central caving on South Park’s “Mohamed” episode, after lampooning every other religion.
I do indeed. But the mayhem they want to avoid is to their own necks. I dont think the elites, including those at the AP, care a lick about the safety of American troops who would probably bare the brunt of insane jihadists over the Kill-ran burnings.
Likely true.
They don’t want to incite the mobs, with the death that would result among them…
THAT they would feel badly about…!!!
So it is that Muslims always get to define what is and isn’t offensive, aided and abetted by their conspirators in the dinosaur media.
Examples as dictated by Muslims and their dhimmi followers everywhere:
– Burning Korans: offensive
– Burning Bibles: not offensive
– Putting panties on someone’s head: offensive
– Cutting off someone’s head: not offensive
– Getting stoned: offensive
– Stoning a woman for being a rape victim: not offensive
Members of the AP can’t wait until tomorrow so they can play their role of Muslim butt-boys all over again.
HIGHLY condition-specific, dude…
I’m sure several may have said this already, but….
AP has a Standards Center?
The Muslims win again and without a suicide bomber or beheading or anyone actually getting killed.
I’m sure the below AP Press Release was previously sent….
*I heard the Pastor actually cancelled the Koran burning due to Publix having run out of hot dogs and marshmallows; Now that’s a travesty!
Why do people insist on calling this man a ‘kook’. He’s not a kook, he’s not a ‘wackadoodle’. He is engaged in a peaceful protest act.
I suppose he’d be normal if he talked about the virtues of Islam right before shooting up Muslims in a mosque.
I’d classify him as an American. he’s exercising his free speech rights. Everyone else is promoting and cheerleading for Islam. . . which is exactly what the 9/11 hijackers want.
if he doesn’t burn the books, I will be disappointed. . . and yes, the terrorists will have won.
Now, instead of the Ground Zero Mosque being built to promote tolerance, the imam has said we have to build it to keep Muslims from killing people.
let me explain something. if this AMERICAN burns these books, and Muslims commit violent acts, MUSLIMS ARE NOT PEACEFUL. The Muslims should be condemned for committing violence.
This AMERICAN hasn’t done any violence. He’s angry at the ideology that encouraged the 9/11 hijackers. He’s the only sane one in America. The Americans apologizing for Islam on behalf of the 9/11 terrorists are encouraging more 9/11′s because you are all promoting Islam.
This AMERICAN is the only one reacting as normal human beings would react after 9/11. If Christians killed 3000 Saudis, you can bet they would do more than burn the Bible.
I am ashamed of America for promoting Sharia on behalf of the 9/11 terrorists.
When W was POTUS they did everything to piss those mooslims off. With Obama…not so much.
I started out thinking he was a kook, though I expressed some sympathy for the point he was trying to make.
After seeing the truly astonishing submissiveness toward Islam on this matter expressed by everyone from Petraeus to Palin, I’ve come to realize his Boston Tea Party like burning of the korans may just be coming much too late.
Our elites sold us out to their greed for petrodollars long, long ago. American power is used almost exclusively for the protection and advancement of so-called ‘moderate’ sharia supporting muslims across the globe, from Bosnia to Kuwait to Saudi Arabia to Kosovo to Indonesia to Afghanistan to Pakistan to Iraq.
Have we used our power to protect Christians anywhere lately???
So, no, he should not burn the korans. It makes our masters angry.
AP: Whew! That was close!
What this pastor is going to do is an impotent, meaningless, totally ineffective publicity stunt.
Maybe he can get the Procrastinator’s Club to burn their draft cards. It’s as equally meaningful. He can also burn Persian rugs to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Petraeus and Palin know stupidity when they see it.
Right now there are people effectively doing things to prevent this mosque. They are doing it the American way. They are exposing the Imam for what he really is and eliminating any significant means of funding the project.
No bucks; no building.
Americans win wars by defeating the enemy’s logistics before defeating them on the field of battle. No one does it better.
The more the Imam is exposed the more Americans will be aroused. You want to get Bloomberg to buckle? Confront him with 3 million angry registered NYC voters, then watch his “principles” disappear like a puff of smoke.
Let’s support these efforts. They are effective.
This was bad all around. It is now official that you can burn anything you want except the Quran. Anywhere in the world. Dhimmitude is now a global reality. Even among several of us here.
I guess what we need is a “necessary” provocation. McPalin would have defended a necessary provocation.
We have our work cut out for us.
I wonder what outrage dujour is on tomorrow’s menu. I just hope it’s filling!
I, for one, will not allow the fear of what jihadists might do dictate what I do or say.
What our leaders apparently do not understand, is that with this kind of zealosy, their religion is, in fact, their greatest weakness. If the mere threat of defiling a holy object creates as much ignorant reaction by the Muslim masses, imagine what a group of well-educated, and motivated military planners could do…..
As excitable as they are, it wouldn’t take much to get them to give us an excuse to nuke them back into the 8th Century – if they weren’t already there.
No, Philly. You can burn anything you want. Go ahead. Nobody cares.
Burn books, burn flags, burn whatever you want.
You burned your own credibility here. I’m calling you a liar…again.
Put up your cites, McPhilly.
Don’t get them mad.
Ssshhhhh!!!!!
That is a mystery.
I am certain they’ll think of something.
If not, they’ll likely stage some event on which to express outrage, like a phony afront to Islam perpetrated by Muslims themselves.
It has happened quite frequently over the past 1400 years, and it can happen again.
Flushing a Q’ran down the toilet but lying and falsely accusing US soldiers of doing so is just one example.
Doctoring photographs and adding other, non related photographs, then travelling to Arab-Muslim areas to foment outrage over Jillans-Postens’ Mohammad Cartoons is another example.
Of course their rabid internet chattering, whisper-down-the-line lie and fabrication machine spreads many of those false claims around the world, inciting more rabid violence and self righteous, but misplaced indignation.
As the great Al Bundy said: “Let’s Rock”
When will these Stone Age media types get it through their thick, neaderthalic, atheistic skulls that being “pro-Christian” does not make someone “anti-muslim”. If Jesus meant what he said (John 14:6), then anyone who claims the name of Christ must in fact believe that all other religions are essentially invalid as means of attaining salvation. And that most assuredly includes Islam, the “religion of
peacesuicide bombers”.Christians and Jews don’t cut off the heads of AP editors. I guess that’s the real reason for the double standard.
The world’s secular elites are really very predictable.
Jones cancelled but the Westboro cult (Fred Phelps et al) have announced they will do the Koran burning. Again. They claimed they’ve done it before. Wonder why they didn’t get the same publicity as Jones?
Bah–just isolated incidents, William.
So says the AP. Yes, like the thirty who haven’t partaken in an act of burning anything yet versus the thousands who have.
Without additional comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97oq8_OPbHo&feature=player_embedded
The AP like Yahoo and many others are on a crusade to promote the Leftist anti-America agenda. Just look at the % of stories that happen to be negative towards christians, conservatives and republicans. It’s a daily propoganda machine for he Left.
I was going to comment on this thread and then I noticed that someone had already used the word “NEVER”. My comment also had the word “NEVER” in it. Not wanting to step on his toes, I decided not to, lest I be insulted.
Don’t throw away your program and crackerjack just yet. It appears as if the Imam that the pastor talked to might have written promises that he can’t cash, vis’a'vis the mosque moving.
I’m dying to see what Pastor Pyro is going to do if his muslim pals reneged on him.
This could get interesting. The liberal media might soil themselves.
Again.
where have you been?
John Deaux–don’t ever let me hear you use that word ‘never’.
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This morning I had to pick up a few things at the grocery. How about you? Hope you are having a great Friday.
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Great idea. I would be interested to see how the media cover it. They certainly couldn’t say he hated islam since he’d be burning all kinds of religious books.
The really interesting thing would be how the media reports the reaction to something like this. You know they won’t show the “muslim street” (whatever that is) with Islamic Rage Boy going crazy. They’d probably stage “an interview” with an imam from the U.S. and make sure the Q&A looks like a kids tea party. They’d make sure the christian holymen look like raving lunatics and the imam looks calm, cool, and collected.
But there’s no bias in the new media.
So, why bother reporting it at all then?
AP: “Something happened in Gainsville, at a little church. We can’t tell you what happened, because it might offend some people. Just trust us, something happened.”
Fox News said it would not cover it as well. (source)
Burn Korans?/Qurans?/Queerends? I’m generally opposed to burning books of any sort, but mohammedans are about the last people who should get upset about the destruction of religious artifacts or books. Seriously, fifteen hundred year old works of art were that big a threat to the Taliban and mohammedanists?
If they want their virgins, I can help them out with that.
ECS
I worry more about size. I have a fat head!
I’m against burning the Quran (Koran, Korean???) but not on moralistic principles. I am just thrifty and don’t need the heat right now. Wait until maybe January. I may hold my own burning if propane and electricity keep on rising in price.
As for any of our Islamic friends; when you thoroughly and firmly denounce all terroristic activities committed by your radical brethren, then I will make a little room in my world for pity over the desecration of your holy book. Until then, go screw yourself.
I am for the koran burning. To me it is just like burning another unholy book like the Necromicon.