Florida pastor won't burn copies of the Koran on 9/11

Blair interview continues SOT - In the end, the real responsibility for something like this lies with people who do foolish things in a world in which, with the television and technology and means of communication of 30 years ago, something like this wouldn't have the same impact, the difficulty now is that things like this become spread worldwide very quickly, they cause an immediate reaction and if you're not careful things start to spiral out of control / the truth is, there is that fragility in the relationship between the West and Islam, but what's important for Muslims to hear today, particularly from people like me, is this does not represent countries like us and it certainly doesn't represent the overwhelming majority of people of a Christian faith who abhor this, who think it's wrong and shouldn't happen / in one sense, all of this has given him enormous publicity, in another sense if he's going to do it and we don't step out and condemn it, people will try and use our absense of condemnation to try and make us complicit or agree with it in some way, that's why it's important that President Obama and Hillary Clinton and everyone has come out and said it's wrong / important that message goes out in the media in the world of Islam so people see very clearly this isn't something that represents any proper true Christian thought / the strain of peaceful co-existence and inter-faith relations is also growing, there's a rabbi who is sitting down with some of his people and reading the Koran on September 11th in order to learn about it / the 21st century isn't going to be marked by fundamentalists or extremist political ideology / religious or cultural ideology has got the chance to pull us apart and just as there are extremes in every religious faith, there's some evidence they are very vocal and in some cases growing, there is a growing movement for good and harmonious relations between religions and for inter-faith dialogue, understanding and mutual respect
Blair interview continues SOT - In the end, the real responsibility for something like this lies with people who do foolish things in a world in which, with the television and technology and means of communication of 30 years ago, something like this wouldn't have the same impact, the difficulty now is that things like this become spread worldwide very quickly, they cause an immediate reaction and if you're not careful things start to spiral out of control / the truth is, there is that fragility in the relationship between the West and Islam, but what's important for Muslims to hear today, particularly from people like me, is this does not represent countries like us and it certainly doesn't represent the overwhelming majority of people of a Christian faith who abhor this, who think it's wrong and shouldn't happen / in one sense, all of this has given him enormous publicity, in another sense if he's going to do it and we don't step out and condemn it, people will try and use our absense of condemnation to try and make us complicit or agree with it in some way, that's why it's important that President Obama and Hillary Clinton and everyone has come out and said it's wrong / important that message goes out in the media in the world of Islam so people see very clearly this isn't something that represents any proper true Christian thought / the strain of peaceful co-existence and inter-faith relations is also growing, there's a rabbi who is sitting down with some of his people and reading the Koran on September 11th in order to learn about it / the 21st century isn't going to be marked by fundamentalists or extremist political ideology / religious or cultural ideology has got the chance to pull us apart and just as there are extremes in every religious faith, there's some evidence they are very vocal and in some cases growing, there is a growing movement for good and harmonious relations between religions and for inter-faith dialogue, understanding and mutual respect
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