US leadership lapse in quran burning

Updated on Monday, April 4, 2011 at 2:32PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Many of us in the U.S., regardless of our faith, viewed with despair the Quran-burning pastor’s actions —we knew innocents would likely die. President Barack Obama and others have spoken about the pastor, in the fall when he first threatened the burning and recently after he carried through with it.

There is however a lapse in US leadership regarding appropriate responses to the burning. The lapse creates a dangerous window that should concern all Americans.

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Political class sets giant double standard over threats of Quran burning

Updated on Friday, September 10, 2010 at 11:27PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

The preacher over in Dover has agreed to cancel the Quran bonfire. He announced his decision Thursday. The preacher was under the impression that the imam would move the Ground Zero mosque. “He has agreed to move it,” the preacher said of the globetrotting (at US taxpayer expense) imam.

Not so fast, Preacher.

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Will Quran burner and mosqueteer get a reality show?

Is there an end in sight for the blowup over the preacher in Dover (Fla.) and the imam courted by the political class?

Right now as highly significant elections loom and the unemployment rate does the same, pundits and national leaders appear to be obsessed with a Quran burner and a ‘mosqueteer.’ All this attention was fanned by President Barack Obama’s White House Ramadan dinner speech when he, perhaps a little caught up in the passion of the moment, expounded on a subject every American knows intimately—the rights of Muslims to worship as they please.

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