Stop Making Cents
14th September 2010, 07:00 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/14/2010-09-14_koran_burner_derek_fenton_fired_from_his_job_at _nj_transit.html
The protestor who burned pages from the Koran outside a planned mosque near Ground Zero was fired from NJ Transit over the controversial act, sources and authorities said yesterday.
Derek Fenton's 11-year career at the agency came to an abrupt halt Monday after photographs of him ripping pages from the Muslim holy book and setting them ablaze appeared in newspapers.
Fenton was ushered from the protests by police and questioned, but he was released without charges.
"He said this is America, and he wanted to stand up for it, in a Tea Party kind of way," a police source said.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/14/2010-09-14_koran_burner_derek_fenton_fired_from_his_job_at _nj_transit.html#ixzz0zYkkQHTf
Too bad he wasn't burning the American flag or dipping a cross in urine. That's be A-OK
The protestor who burned pages from the Koran outside a planned mosque near Ground Zero was fired from NJ Transit over the controversial act, sources and authorities said yesterday.
Derek Fenton's 11-year career at the agency came to an abrupt halt Monday after photographs of him ripping pages from the Muslim holy book and setting them ablaze appeared in newspapers.
Fenton was ushered from the protests by police and questioned, but he was released without charges.
"He said this is America, and he wanted to stand up for it, in a Tea Party kind of way," a police source said.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/14/2010-09-14_koran_burner_derek_fenton_fired_from_his_job_at _nj_transit.html#ixzz0zYkkQHTf
Too bad he wasn't burning the American flag or dipping a cross in urine. That's be A-OK