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Posted by tipper 2010-08-22 08:36|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

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When Afghans see that their holy book is being burned, it will cause riots and attacks that will put U.S. troops further at risk. There will be similar riots and attacks in neighboring Pakistan and Iran. It will inflame the entire Muslim world and fuel acts of terrorism.
When Afghans see that their holy book is being burned, it will cause riots and attacks.

It could also inflame anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, especially in the context of the anger over the proposed Islamic center near ground zero in Lower Manhattan.

Many American Muslims will feel as if they are second-class citizens and it could push some angry young men toward violence.

In other words, "Don't burn that book or we will kill you."

Posted by Parabellum 2010-08-22 08:48|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-08-22 08:48|| Front Page Top

#2 When Afghans see that their holy book is being burned, it will cause riots and attacks.

--Akbar Ahmed

Whats New ?

Posted by Goodluck 2010-08-22 08:50|| 2010-08-22 08:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, at least this time they would be rioting and attacking over something that had really happened, instead of something completely imaginary ... like the 'flushed koran' story.

Posted by Sgt.Mom 2010-08-22 09:02|| http://www.celiahayes.com 2010-08-22 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 * Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning building because their faces were exposed. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged girls on their way to school in Indonesia. A Christian school. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder teachers trying to teach Muslim children in Iraq. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder over 80 tourists with car bombs outside cafes and hotels in Egypt. No Muslim outrage.
* A Muslim attacks a missionary children's school in India. Kills six. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims slaughter hundreds of children and teachers in Beslan, Russia. Muslims shoot children in the back. No Muslim outrage.
* Let's go way back. Muslims kidnap and kill athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims fire rocket-propelled grenades into schools full of children in Israel. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder more than 50 commuters in attacks on London subways and busses. Over 700 are injured. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims massacre dozens of innocents at a Passover Seder. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder innocent vacationers in Bali. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslim newspapers publish anti-Semitic cartoons. No Muslim outrage
* Muslims are involved, on one side or the other, in almost every one of the 125+ shooting wars around the world. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims beat the charred bodies of Western civilians with their shoes, then hang them from a bridge. No Muslim outrage.

Dead children. Dead tourists. Dead teachers. Dead doctors and nurses. Death, destruction and mayhem around the world at the hands of Muslims .. no Muslim outrage

from 2006

Posted by Titus Clolurong9909 2010-08-22 09:53|| 2010-08-22 09:53|| Front Page Top

#5 "Many American Muslims will feel as if they are second-class citizens and it could push some angry young men toward violence."

So their violence is everybody else's fault, Perfesser?

"Many ~~American Muslims will~~ people who have lost their livelihoods due to the present Administration's anti-business, anti-American policies feel as if they are second-class citizens and it could push some angry young men toward violence."

Guess you think that would be OK, too, Perfessor?

Stuff your faux "outrage" where the sun don't shine.

Spot on, #4.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-08-22 09:59|| 2010-08-22 09:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Burning Korans is insensitive, an unnecessary provocation, and though perfectly legal, should not be done. Gee, that argument kind of sounds familiar ... can't quite place it though ...

Posted by DMFD 2010-08-22 10:30|| 2010-08-22 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Potentially harmful and dangerous ideas can be tolerated in a free and open society precisely because everyone has free speech rights.

Every idea, ideology, political movement and yes, religion can and will be challenged in the free marketplace of ideas. This includes robust criticism and mockery. Unwarranted criticism and mockery can be refuted with good arguments, provided there are any.

A movement or religion however that manages to destroy this mechanism by threats (and the application) of violence will however become truly dangerous.

To put it bluntly, a religion that can't be robustly mocked on South Park and elsewhere should not be tolerated at all.

Posted by Thraviter Mussolini4616 2010-08-22 11:03|| 2010-08-22 11:03|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't think Burning Korans is a good ide, too many NAZI connotations.
Simply (Accidentally) drop it in a toilet, then throw it away where some Moslem can "Find" it.

I think the idea of pouring pig offal on the ground Zero site would end all this crap.
(Pun intended)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-08-22 11:38|| 2010-08-22 11:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Save the Korans. Burn the Koraninites.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-08-22 11:40|| 2010-08-22 11:40|| Front Page Top

#10 The Koran, an outrage to civilisation.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-08-22 12:16|| 2010-08-22 12:16|| Front Page Top

#11 This sounds like an excellent opportunity to create a "Koran Desecration Society" web page, that would show all sorts of images of Korans being desecrated. Used as TP, fed to pigs, torn apart by dogs, etc.

Then ask the Swedish Pirate Party to host it. Of course they would refuse, but it would hurt their cred.

Lots of twists to this one. For example, it could be sneaked onto Muslim country servers as something else, hacked onto various nations government and corporate websites, etc.

Just the suggestion that it was being hosted by some smarmy organization would be enough to get them upset.

Lots of mischievous possibilities, here, but with the same goal of having fanatics threatening everybody.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-08-22 12:19|| 2010-08-22 12:19|| Front Page Top

#12 On my recent fieldwork trip to 100 mosques in 75 American cities with a team of American researchers for the book "Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam," we documented that many mosques had been attacked, sometimes bombed.

He's a fucking liar and shit-stirrer. There are 130 mosques in NYC and 2300 nation wide. Using the word 'many' is straight up hyperbole.

Posted by Sleque Barnsmell1141 2010-08-22 12:36|| 2010-08-22 12:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Everything outrages muslims. It's their default attitude, and it's very old. Why does anyone give a sh!t any more.

Posted by Bulldog 2010-08-22 13:18|| 2010-08-22 13:18|| Front Page Top

#14 skinless people in a sandpaper world

Posted by Frank G 2010-08-22 13:25|| 2010-08-22 13:25|| Front Page Top

#15 What if it's simply "performance" "art"?

(I think I got the quotes correct)

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-08-22 15:43|| 2010-08-22 15:43|| Front Page Top

#16 Like the 9-11 mosque, or the 'artistic' Crucifix in a jar of urine, this Koran burning is legal, but wrong.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-08-22 16:18|| 2010-08-22 16:18|| Front Page Top

#17 True enough Glenmore, but when the 'artist' put a crucifix in a jug of urine, I was supposed to understand that the purpose of the 'art' was to 'make me think' -- the implication being, of course, that as a Christian, I didn't.

Quran burning shouldn't be done, but apparently the Muslims aren't 'thinking' about it either. And apparently they're not as restrained in demonstrating their displeasure as the average western Christian.

Posted by Steve White 2010-08-22 16:50|| 2010-08-22 16:50|| Front Page Top

#18 I have a very simple question here: why?

I mean, I understand the whole desire to get Andres Serrano on the Muslims. What's good enough for us is good enough for them. But is this kind of thing really productive? Aren't wee supposed to be the cultural adults here?

You grow the beast you feed. I would rather spend my energy challenging the Islamic world on things I disagree with them on: their terrible treatment of women, religious minorities, and their militant aggressiveness. To offend them all with a bunch of "From the heart of Hell I stab at thee/ For hate's sake." activities seems juvenile. For example, I agree with the Muslims on certain things: abortion is bad, there is only one God, and prayer is a good thing to do.

Posted by Secret Master 2010-08-22 16:50|| 2010-08-22 16:50|| Front Page Top

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