How wonderful that these zealots are praying …as they stir up hostility here at home, endanger Americans, fire up the Taliban, and put our troops in danger.  Nothing says “Christian” like bigotry and hatred:

Gen. David Petraeus said Tuesday that the “Burn the Koran Day” event to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks could endanger U.S. soldiers and civilians in Afghanistan and would be welcomed by Islamic extremists for its propaganda value.

“Images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan — and around the world — to inflame public opinion and incite violence,” Petraeus wrote in an e-mail to reporters.

Petraeus isn’t the only one:

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Tuesday condemned the proposed Koran-burning, calling it disrespectful and saying it could put Western troops in Afghanistan at risk.

Let’s pray that Jones gets a message from god that what he’s doing is outrageously stupid and irresponsible. And not at all Christian.

That would be after he counts the money he is most likely raking in, in support of his condemnation of all Muslims, even though “all” Muslims didn’t, and wouldn’t, attack the United States.

It’s amazing how a group of only 80 extremists can provoke an international response.

H/t: Cody_K

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So does the Dutch Prime Minister:

Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende attacked on Friday claims by a retired U.S. general that Dutch forces were overrun in Srebrenica in 1995 because of the presence of gay soldiers. [...]

“The remarks were outrageous, wrong and beneath contempt,” Balkenende told a news conference.

Yes, in fact they were.

Oh, it gets worse:

The Dutch Defense Ministry called Sheehan’s claims “absolute nonsense” and added that gay Dutch soldiers routinely cooperate with the U.S. military in the NATO mission in Afghanistan.

Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen called the claim “the bizarre private opinion of someone without an official function“.

Renee Jones-Bos, the Dutch ambassador to the United States, said in a statement, “I couldn’t disagree more” with Sheehan, adding there was no evidence of his claims in the extensive record of research on Srebrenica.

Military unions were equally angry. Dutch news agency ANP quoted the head of the military union AFMP as saying Sheehan’s comments were “out of the realm of fiction“, while the head of the gay soldiers’ group SHK called his comments “the ridiculous convulsion of a loner“.

You might say a few well placed people were a tad offended, mightn’t you?

Somebody alert Donald Rumsfeld. It looks like “old Europe” is more evolved than some of our commanders on the ground.