… it is the height of hypocrisy for the U.S. government to condemn the [Florida] church, considering the fact that the U.S. military incinerated Bibles that were sent to Afghanistan in May 2009.
“There’s really a staggering level of hypocrisy and double standard here for the military to burn the Holy Bible and then complain when a pastor’s going to do the same thing to the Quran,” Fischer contends. “You know, if the military was going to be fair here and even-handed, they would count up the number of Holy Bibles that they incinerated in Afghanistan, and then they would allow Reverend Jones to burn the same number of Qurans.”
The AFA issues analysis director believes the whole incident illustrates the difference between Christianity and Islam. “When these Bibles were burned [in May 2009], the Christian community did not riot in the streets; we did not threaten violence against anyone,” he points out. “[But] when even the threat of Qurans being burned takes place, it’s like we’re dealing with Armageddon [or] with World War III.”