Sep 8, 2010 / 03:47 am
The retired Cardinal Archbishop of Washington, D.C., Theodore McCarrick, and the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights' president Bill Donohue, have added their voices in opposition to a Florida pastor's plan to burn the Quran publicly on September 11, 2010. Both men agree that such actions misrepresent America and present a false image of Christianity.
While pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center says that his intention in burning the book is to raise “hard questions” about its content and the nature of Islam, Cardinal McCarrick and Bill Donohue – along with many representatives of other religions - have concurred with the sharp warnings expressed by General David Petraeus, the top U.S. general in Afghanistan.
General Petraeus stated on Tuesday that he believes a public burning of the Quran would endanger Americans abroad, particularly those serving in the military. Images of the planned event at the Dove World Outreach Center, Petraeus warned, would be used in propaganda intended to recruit terrorists and incite anti-American violence for years to come.
Speaking for the Catholic League, Bill Donohue compared the small evangelical group's planned actions to those of homosexual protestors, who burned a Bible in 1998 to protest an appearance of the conservative Catholic political figure Pat Buchanan.