The Constitution, Religious Freedom And Islam (VIDEO)
Roland Martin appears on AC360 with host Anderson Cooper, David Gergen and Cliff May CNN to discuss the controversy and bigotry being aimed at Muslims as a result of the Ground Zero Mosque.
Roland said, “This is one of those tough times where we have to ask ourselves how much do we really love and cherish our own US Constitution. We can not sit here and call ourselves a nation that supports our troops fighting for freedom … when we want to ignore this very freedom here. This is a tough choice when you are an American.”
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Californians Fight Forced Furloughs (VIDEO)
State employees hope the California supreme court will ban recently resumed furloughs that cut pay 15 percent. From KTVU.
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Sphere: Related ContentStewart Takes Down Florida Pastor Planning ‘Burn A Koran Day’ (VIDEO)
Source: Katla McGlynn / The Huffington Post
Last night on “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart had a field day mocking Florida pastor Terry Jones for organizing an “International Burn the Koran Day” on the upcoming ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Stewart mocked everything about Jones’s planned torching of the Quran, including his use of the word “international” in the title and his ridiculous mustache. He also pointed out that various news outlets had compared the media firestorm around the event to that of the proposed “Ground Zero Mosque.” Stewart noted the ridiculousness of the comparison, saying, “a Christian is an extremist for burning the Quran, and a Muslim is an extremist for reading from it.”
To get some perspective on the situation, Stewart turned to John Oliver, who called Jones a “radical, hate-spewing extremist.”
“This man is f***ing crazy,” Oliver said. “He doesn’t represent Christianity any more than “Dr. Laura represents the United Negro College Fund.”
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Sphere: Related ContentObama Denounces Planned Quran Burning, Warns Of Fallout (VIDEO)
Source: AP / The Huffington Post
President Barack Obama is exhorting a Florida minister to “listen to those better angels” and call off his plan to engage in a Quran-burning protest this weekend.
Obama told ABC’s “Good Morning America” in an interview aired Thursday that he hopes the Rev. Terry Jones of Florida listens to the pleas of people who have asked him to call off the plan. The president called it a “stunt.”
“If he’s listening, I hope he understands that what he’s proposing to do is completely contrary to our values as Americans,” Obama said. “That this country has been built on the notion of freedom and religious tolerance.”
The President said, “Look, this is a recruitment bonanza for Al Qaida. You could have serious violence in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan.” The president also said Jones’ plan, if carried out, could serve as an incentive for terrorist-minded individuals “to blow themselves up” to kill others.
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Sphere: Related ContentU.N. Puts Congo sex attacks at more than 500 (VIDEO)
Source: CNN
U.N. officials on Tuesday put the number of rapes and other sexual attacks in eastern Congo since late July at more than 500, more than double the previous estimate.
In remarks prepared for delivery to the Security Council after returning from a fact-finding trip to the region, U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Atul Khare cited 267 rapes or other sexual attacks in the town of Uvira — on the eastern edge of the country — and other nearby regions of North and South Kivu, in addition to the 242 rapes that had already been reported in and near the village of Luvungi.
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