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Palin Condemns Quran Burning, Likens to “Ground Zero Mosque”

09/09/2010 9:45 am 0 comments

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin Wednesday evening decried a Florida pastor’s plan to lead a Quran burning over the weekend, likening it to the plans to build a Muslim community center near Ground Zero.

“Book burning is antithetical to American ideals,” Palin wrote in a Facebook note. “People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation – much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.”

“Freedom of religion is integral to our charters of liberty,” Palin wrote. “We don’t need to agree with each other on theological matters, but tolerating each other without unnecessarily provoking strife is how we ensure a civil society.”

She added that the Quran burning would “feed the fire of caustic rhetoric and appear as nothing more than mean-spirited religious intolerance.”

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