"One last question: since when is the torching of Jewish holy sites OK with the press? Why the uproar over American soldiers at Guantanamo Bay allegedly mishandling a Koran if destroying synagogues is OK?"
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Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst WEAKEN THE NATIONS!
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which DECEIVETH THE WHOLE WORLD world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Actually "lucifer" is a bad translation to/from Latin.
A better translation is
14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, that didst cast lots over the nations!
The Hebrew word is "Helel," which was the proper name of the King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, who this passage is about.
This word was translated to the latin Lucifero, which was translated to Lucifer first in the Christian KJV bible. Chalk it up to a bad translation!