second athlete who has gone home for that reason in just a week. the swiss soccer player posted the message after his team lost to south korea yesterday. the tweet reportedly said that south korea s, quote, can go burn. he also used offensive slur which i won t say here. the player has since apologized but the swiss team leader said olympic rules require them that they expel him. next week, greek olympic team the previous week booted a triple jumper after she tweeted about sightings of african mosquitoes in greece. so many africans in greece at least west nile mosquitoes will eat homemade food. a chinese swimmer says it was hard work and not drugs that fueled her record-setting performance. astounding it is. the 16-year-old swimmer not only won the gold medal and set a world record on saturday. she finished her last lap almost as fast as the american champion ryan lochte. one of the best american male
burn koran day. some kooks in florida are plotting an insulting display agains muslims this week. why burn the koran? so that people will say the name of their congregation and their pastor on television, which personally i can t stomach. do youreally think that sus christ, if he were here today, would say, pastor, go burn that holy book? absolutely. jesus christ would s that? absolutely. by midweek, abc s george stephanopoulos was asking the president to weigh in. i wonder what this must feel like from behind your desk. you re president of the united states, you have to deal with the fallout. this pastor has 30 followers iny his church. does it make you feel helpless or angry? well, it is frustrating. now on the other hand, we are a government of laws. and soe we have to abide by thoe laws. the story got even stranger when jones said he was calling off the book burning in exchange
a a state of emergency in colorado as a wildfire swallows up dozens of homes. we continue today to have lost some structures. and forces thousands of residents to get out of the way. the fierce controversy over plans to burn copies of the koran on september 11th. jesus christ, if he were here today, would say, pastor, go burn that holy book? absolutely. we ll hear from the man at the center of the story. and, a fish fight near the great lakes. it s a story we re jumping into on this wednesday, september 8th. from abc news, this is world news now. peace around the world, earth
would jesus do? do you really think that jesus christ, if he were here today, would say, pastor, go burn that holy book? absolutely. jesus christ would say that? absolutely. if you look at jesus life, most of the time jesus was as people imagine him. he was very nice, very patient, very loving. but there was also times that jesus did radical things. so i think jesus would not run around burning books, but i think he would burn this one. what do you say to people who say you re crazy? you are on the lunatic fringe of christianity? well, i agree that the burning of the koran is pretty radical. reporter: it s an act of war, really. an act of holy war. a sign of the times. and some, like terry jones, are ready for the fight. you re prepared to do this and prepared and ready to incite violence? we are definitely prepared to do this.
condemned jones, he believes. christians sometimes ask, what would jesus do? do you really think that jesus christ, if he were here today, would say, pastor, go burn that holy book? absolutely. jesus christ would say that? absolutely. what would change your mind? yeah, i guess the same thing that caused us to do it. just a deep conviction from god that something has to happen. reporter: so he is praying. as are so many other people around the world. i m terry moran in gainesville, florida. nine fishing boats in south korea have been destroyed by a quick-moving fire. it happened in a port yesterday and left the local fishing community with $5 million worth of damage. the boats had been docked as a precautionary measure in case a typhoon hit. the boats were made of a highly flammable plastic material so they burned very quickly. we are following a breaking story out of los angeles this morning.