According to Military.com, the small, controversial Westboro Baptist Church has joined the criticism of the planned Koran burnings in Florida, but not for the reason everyone else is.\u00a0 Their reason?<\/p>\n
They did it first<\/a>.\u00a0 And no one noticed.<\/p>\n It’s that in 2008 she and her father’s Topeka flock set fire to a Quran in plain view on a Washington, D.C., street and nobody seemed to care…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Westboro has even said if Jones doesn’t burn the Koran, they will<\/a>.\u00a0 Elsewhere, there is an increasing chorus of “hypocrisy” accusations against US officials<\/a>.\u00a0 The US government previously\u00a0said it burned Bibles in Afghanistan<\/a>; even at that time, there was a sense that<\/a><\/p>\n “if it had been the Quran, this never would have happened.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Other news agencies picked up on the “unusual” criticism provided by General David Petraeus of an American citizen<\/a> exercising his rights; from the Washington Times<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n While it’s possible the Koran-burning event could make the fight more difficult in Afghanistan, as the general claimed, it’s not the place for members of the military to use their positions of responsibility to intervene in American domestic political issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n