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Sarah Palin Tells Pastor Jones to 'Stand Down' on Quran Burning

By Carl FranzenSep 8th 2010 – 7:10PM

(Sept. 8) -- Building an Islamic community center near the site of the destroyed World Trade Center is a bad idea, but so is burning copies of the Quran, Sarah Palin says. In Facebook and Twitter posts this afternoon, the former Alaska governor came out staunchly against the Dove World Outreach Center's plans to torch...

Background on book burn

Book burning (also biblioclasm or libricide) is the practice of destroying, often ceremoniously, books or other written material.

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