indeed this congregation goes forward with this koran burning? two or three messages have to go out. one of them is a message that has to go out across the international community. fortunately yesterday i had a chance to talk on arabic television to people in the middle east. i said, look this is not about american patriotism. we don t encourage this in america. this is not about christianity or judaism or any of the other religions that have their home here in the united states. in fact, it runs counter to it. and in the united states, what we re saying is this is not the nature of the historic religions. it s not essential in their script scriptures. we need to remember in this land that religion thrived because of the first amendment to the constitution and the freedom