Letters of the day (April 5): Qur'an burning

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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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.