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| 2011-04-09 |
| As I wrote last September, when Jones threatened to burn a Koran, the "violence stems from Islamic law, the Sharia, which insists that Islam, and the Koran in particular, enjoy a privileged status." That insistence, which has been asserted in the West since 1989, when Ayatollah Khomeini put an edict on Salman Rushdie for his novel, The Satanic Verses, must not be indulged. Islam is one religion among others, with no claim to superior status. Indeed closing down the claim to Islamic supremacism may be the single greatest challenge to modernizing Islam. However distasteful, Jones' act is both legal and non-violent. He is not responsible for the 43 deaths; the repugnant, barbaric ideology of Islamism is to blame. When will U.S. politicians realize this basic fact and stand up robustly for the civil liberties of American citizens? Critiquing Islam, tastefully or distastefully done, is a Constitutional right. Indeed, done intelligently it is a civilizational imperative. |
| Posted by:Shager Omineting5834 |
| #6 Heathen idolaters need no excuse to act like heathen idolaters. U.S. State Dept. needs to freshen up on reading Robert E. Howard. Oh, I forgot there is now P.C. and their "culture" is equal to ours. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2011-04-09 17:01 |
| #5 Only if we can hold Newsweek, its editors and writer, responsible for the deaths following the bogus 'flushed Koran' story, so we can 'censor' print media. /sarc off You want to abridge my 1st Amendment rights, we get to abridge yours. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-04-09 09:59 |
| #4 Fags. Sorry, meant the people hyperventilating over this and clambering for the abridgment of our first amendment. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-04-09 00:34 |
| #3 Read the article, DV. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-04-09 00:30 |
| #2 Can I blame Henry Ford for all the automobile accidents then? Or can I blame Jesus for the schizophrenic that killed a man in his name? No? Then please go fuck yourself you ignorant, scaremongering cock-fag. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-04-09 00:22 |
| #1 I'll answer this one. No. Next (stupid) question please. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2011-04-09 00:17 |