decides to burn korans, yes, you have to have a camera there to see if there s any violence, but i think we ought to downplay this. i don t think anybody should show i mean, i certainly would not air images of this guy burning korans. i don t think anybody should. well, you know if al jazeera does that and we get a lot of protests around the world, i guarantee you we ll get sucked in again. i think the faster we can turn this guy s microphones off and turn off the lights, the better. he is living off the publicity and i can t tell you how much this is so this is damaging to the country now. i don t think i think it was unwise for the president to get as deeply involved as he has. i think it did give more legitimacy to this guy. but here we are and i think it s time now to find a way to shut off the microphones. and zuhdi jasser, you were opposed to building that mosque and islamic center near ground zero, although obviously they have the right under the constitution. wh
standing next to the pastor was another imam, a florida imam musri, who is president of the islamic society of central florida. here is what he said. i have made this morning contact with the office of imam feisal abdul rauf and got a commitment to fly up to new york and meet with him in the company of pastor jones to discuss and come to a decision on relocating the mosque in new york. there, he seems to be saying there s no actual deal, just discussion. a short time later the people behind the islamic center near ground zero said just that, there was no deal. then imam feisal rauf issued this statement. i m glad pastor jones has decided not to burn any korans. however, i have not spoken to pastor jones or imam musri.
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to this crazy spiral that we re still on. what do you make of all of this? well, i think we ve all been sucked in, involuntarily, into a freak show. this fellow is not just a lunatic. he s a jerk. he has been playing around with american lives. he is a publicity hound. he does live off the oxygen of media coverage. but as i learn more about it, i can see the dilemma the media organizations like cnn, it is true, general petraeus is acting in the best interest of the country, trying to protect lives, and spoke out about this, it naturally prompted the media to start looking at it. i do think we have now given him too much attention. if he decides to burn korans, yes, you have to have a camera there. but i think we ought to downplay this. i don t think anybody should show i mean, i certainly would not air images of this guy burning korans. i don t think anybody should. well, you know if al
korans. do you think at this point you spent a couple of days with him privately. do you think he will go ahead and burn korans? i don t think so. i think he got the message from secretary gates, from david petraeus, from many christian leaders who have called on him to call it quits to that event. i think he is trying right now to put pressure on me and twist my arm and the arm of the imam in new york to try to achieve something beyond what we have agreed on. right. he s basically trying to save face is what you re saying. what does it say about him, about this pastor that if what you re saying is accurate, that he would stretch the truth or lie about something like this, try to insert himself into something that he hasn t been involved with at all and, after spending two days with you, not even know your name.