Subscribe RSS FeedGovernment of the United States (U.S.) opposed the plan of a small sect leaders in Florida to mobilize action to burn the holy book of Quran on 11 September. The action was seen as an act which does not reflect the attitudes and values of the United Nations, and even with the same despicable perpetrators of terrorist action September 11, 2001.
Thus declared the spokesman of U.S. State Department, PJ Crowley Tuesday, September 7, 2010 local time. He hopes more and more Americans who reject and oppose the plan Terry Jones of Dove World Outreach Center, which infuriated Muslims worldwide.
“We see the action it is a provocative action. We expect more and more Americans who stood up and said that the action was inconsistent with American values. The act did not act like Americans,” said Crowley.
According to him, that’s not how Americans commemorate the tragedy of 11 September 2001, as claimed by Jones. “The act [burn the Quran] was similar to the actions of radicals who attacked us and blasted on September 11, 2001,” said Crowley.
The people and leaders of Christianity, Islam and the Jews in the U.S. have expressed their rejection of the plan that the Quran burning. From the office of President Barack Obama, spokesman Robert Gibbs also criticized the plan. According to Gibbs, the action was going to use the extremists to spark public anger at the same time justify the violence.
“Such activities would also threaten the existence of our troops and this will be the government’s attention,” said Gibbs. He was referring to a statement the U.S. military commander in Afghanistan that the plan could threaten the burning of the Quran at the country’s army.
Similar criticism was also leveled the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Organization (NATO), Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
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