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The AP reports:
NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Tuesday that a Florida minister’s plan to burn the Muslim holy book on Sept. 11 is “distasteful,” but that the minister has a right to do it.
Bloomberg was asked about Pastor Terry Jones’ plan to burn copies of the Quran on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the terror attacks, amid a national debate about a planned Islamic center near ground zero. Jones is the pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center, a small, evangelical Christian church with an anti-Islam philosophy in Gainesville, Fla.
“In a strange way, I’m here to defend his right to do that. I happen to think that it is distasteful. I don’t think he would like it if somebody burned a book that in his religion he thinks is holy,” the mayor said following a news conference about the progress of the reconstruction at the World Trade Center site.
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WillyP // Sep 8, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Whoopdee…
the wonderful, brilliant, fearless leader, and now legal scholar, informs us once again that Americans have religious freedom.
Mr. Bloomberg, in case you were wondering, leaders take a stance on controversial issues and show people why and how to think. They frame and differentiate and instruct.
Anybody with a 2nd grade education in Pilgrims could tell you that burning holy books, or building a mosque is legal and protected by the Federal government. This is a bland and useless statement.