Thanks to the media - Phelps church jumps on Qur'an burning bandwagon.

[cbdo2007]

We need to stop giving these people any attention.

Was anyone here even aware that Phelps group already burned a Qur'an in Washington DC in 2008?? Nobody noticed and nobody cared because it wasn't reported in the media. Here's a good article from Kansascity.com discussing this, and how the media is fueling the whole spectacle:

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Attention might fan Qur’an flames

By DONALD BRADLEY and RICK MONTGOMERY
The Kansas City Star

One of those angry at a Florida preacher’s plans to mark Sept. 11 by setting fire to copies of the Qur’an is Shirley Phelps Roper, a leader of the Westboro Baptist Church.

While she joins Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Gen. David Petraeus, the White House, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and many more, Phelps-Roper, Fred Phelps’ lawyer daughter, is hardly a voice for religious tolerance.

Her irritation Wednesday was not that the Rev. Terry Jones and his Dove World Outreach Center’s planned bonfire would offend Muslims worldwide and probably increase the danger to American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.

It’s that in 2008 she and her father’s Topeka flock set fire to a Qur’an in plain view on a Washington, D.C., street and nobody seemed to care.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/08/2209487/attention-might-fan-quran-flames.html#ixzz0z5mXg7Fm

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. So did one in Tennesse

[mjane]

2. Apparently, Phelp's church already DID burn a Quran

quite some time ago.

The difference was the media didn't broadcast it. Thus, it was the whole "tree falling in a forest without anyone hearing it" exercise.

I think the media should have ignored this moran in Fla. But none of them wanted to be scooped by the OTHER channel, etc. so they probably felt they had to carry it.

Wrongly so, imo.