The article, Obama implores minister to call off Quran-burning, raises the controversy of exploiting Islam as a religion in the United States. A minister in Florida has decided that on September 11, his church will brun Qurans as a cermonious remembrance of the 9th anniversary. Obama's address of this problem touches on the base of America: "... this country has been built on the notion of freedom and religious tolerance," therefore, what the minister is intending to do would be against what America stands for. The Constitution gives everyone the right to their own religion, and so people who are given the right to be Muslim in America are having their rights violated. This Quran-burning would only be destructive, it would not solve anything - the minster is not making any problem better by completing this task. Glenn Beck said "burning the Quran is like burning the flag or the Bible - something people can do in the United States, but shouldn't," so what the minister is doing is not illegal persay, but it is definitely something that is punishable in every other possible way when done in America. I don't think that this would solve anything; it's a pointless act that will be regretted by many in years to come.
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