Recently, a Florida Pastor, for whatever reason, burned a copy of the Quran. I think this was inappropriate and in bad taste. Justification for the burning seem to be quite shallow. On the other hand, it is not a violation of our Constitution. Clearly, if the Supreme Court allows evil groups to protest and disrupt the funerals of our fallen soldiers as an exercise of protected free speech, the burning of the Quran is equally protected free speech.
I can understand how those who revere the Quran would be upset by such insensitive acts. I cannot understand that burning the Quran justifies mob violence and the killing of 12 people at the U.N Headquarters in Afghanistan and 11 more in Kandahar. This is where General Petraeus and I part company.
In what can only be described as an exercise in really bad judgment, General Petraeus condemned the burning of the Quran and claimed that the deaths in Afghanistan were the result of understandable rage and passion. This seemed to be his way of emphasizing his strongest condemnation of the act. He seems to have forgotten those who were killed in the name of Islam. Is this political correctness gone awry or some bonehead attempt to appeal to those in Afghanistan who feel that the killings were justified? It is difficult for me to see how General Petraeus could find these killings “understandable.”
President Obama, interestingly, condemned both the burning of the Quran and the senseless killing of innocent people.
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