2 Local Men Burn Quran Despite Protest

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SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. — Despite multiple pleas to reconsider, two local religious leaders held a private Quran burning in a Springfield backyard Saturday afternoon.The Rev. Bob Old and the Rev. Danny Allen both had different reasons for burning the Muslim holy book, but they said it had nothing to do with whether or not a mosque was built near ground zero.”It’s about faith, it’s about love, but you have to have the right book behind you. This is a book of hate, not a book of love,” said Old while holding up a Quran.The two men said they burned the books to defend the United States Constitution and the American people. It’s a move that has been denounced by Christian groups, politicians and even some of their family members.Three women who have loved ones fighting abroad stood outside of Old’s home holding up signs to protest the burnings.”Somebody’s got to stand up for the troops,” said Ashley Parsons.Parsons’ husband is fighting in Afghanistan. This is his fifth tour of duty. She said she thinks it is shameful someone would take the anniversary of a national tragedy and do something that both the president and military leaders have said could endanger troops fighting abroad.”I was livid,” Parsons said. ” I was very angry. I was very angry, and I’m scared. I’m scared for my husband. I’m scared for my friends and everybody who protects us.”

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Protesters shred the Quran outside the White House on 9/11 anniversary

Washington: A small group of conservative Christians tore some pages from a Quran in a protest outside the White House to denounce what they called the “charade of Islam” on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. “Part of why we’re doing that, please hear me: the charade that Islam is a peaceful religion must end,” said Randall Terry, a leading anti-abortion campaigner, and one of six people who took part in the protest. Another activist, Andrew Beacham, read out a few Quran passages calling for hatred towards Christians and Jews, and then ripped those pages from an English paperback editionof the Islamic holy book. He carefully put the torn pieces into a plastic bag, in order not to litter, and said: “The only reason I will not burn it at the White House is because to burn anything on the Capitol grounds is a felony.” Beacham, who describes himself as a leader of the right wing conservative Tea Party from Indiana, added: “The Twin Towers were taken down because of the Koran and other religious teachings.” A few curious tourists stopped to watch the huddle outside the White House, while police took down the names of the participants but did not intervene. The tiny protest came as the United States marked the somber ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks amid heightened tensions following a radical Florida pastor’s threat to burn the Quran. After days of global outrage and protests, pastor Terry Jones, from Gainesville, said today: “We will definitely not burn the Quran, no. Not today, not ever,” he told NBC television when pressed for his plans. President Barack Obama told a deeply polarized America today that Islam was not the enemy as the 9/11 ceremonies took place. “As Americans we will not and never will be at war with Islam. It was not a religion that attacked us that  September day. It was Al-Qaeda, (a) sorry band of men, which perverts religion,” Obama said. (Watch: Obama on 9/11 Anniversary)

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U.S. Backs $1B Loan to Mexico for Oil Drilling Despite Obama Moratorium

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Despite President Obama’s moratorium on U.S. deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Export-Import Bank intends to guarantee $1 billion in loans to PEMEX, the Mexican state oil company, to bolster the company’s oil drilling in the region.

The bank, which is the official American export credit agency, loaned more than $1 billion to PEMEX in 2009 — when the company was the bank’s largest borrower — in support of its drilling activities. That year, the bank also guaranteed two loans totaling $300 million made by a commercial lender.

The latest request comes during a drilling moratorium that was first imposed by Obama in May to find out what was the cause behind the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and led to 206 million gallons of oil spewing from BP’s undersea well.

Fundamentally Transforming the United States

America Becomes a Two-Class Society

Income tax day, April 15, 2010, now divides Americans into two almost equal classes: those who pay for the services provided by government and those who don’t. The percentage of Americans who will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009 has risen to 47%.

That isn’t the worst of it. The bottom 40% not only pay no income tax, but the government sends them cash or benefits financed by the taxes dutifully paid by those who do pay income tax.

The outright cash handouts include the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which can amount to as much as $5,657 a year to low-income families. Other financial benefits can include child tax credits, welfare, food stamps, WIC (Women, Infants, Children), housing subsidies, unemployment benefits, Medicaid, S-CHIP, and other programs.