QUR'AN BURNING

Burning the Qur'an is the same as yelling fire in a theater. It should not be protected speech, and Terry Jones should be held directly responsible ("Enraged by burning of Qur'an, Afghans kill 7," April 3).

Pastor, my eye. He is a terrorist. The relatives of all those he killed need to be heard. I am outraged. He is doing incredible damage to the United States.

GENNA ANDERSON, ST. PAUL

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There is no justification for violent protests and the killing of innocents. Period. S.N. HASAN, MAPLE GROVE

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A Florida minister who claims to hold Christian beliefs has the power to incite violence half a world away, resulting in the deaths of more people than he has been able to attract to his radical ministry.

His hateful words and actions are taken as "the" American attitude by those who choose to rush to this conclusion. A lunatic becomes a spokesman for U.S. policy.One basic problem is that people with a medieval belief system have 21st-century technology at their disposal. It is the equivalent of giving the atomic bomb to a Neolithic society.

DENNIS C. PEDERSEN, MINNEAPOLIS