Posted on 04/03/2011 6:05:16 PM PDT by jfd1776
In a small town in Florida on March 20, the pastor of a small church held a public event: burning a koran for his audience and a video camera. His American Christian audience reacted as one would expect from them: they were happy to be a part of this provocative event; they returned to their homes and jobs after the service, and went on with their lives.
The world continued to turn… nobody of substance cared about Pastor Jones’ latest attempt at news coverage… until almost two weeks later, when it made the news half a planet away, in Afghanistan.
The president of Afghanistan denounced the event; imams and mullahs hammered it in their mosques. Their Afghan muslim audience reacted as one would expect from them: they streamed out into the streets, hunting down foreigners, beating hundreds of UN aides, NATO staffers, contractors, travelers, journalists, soldiers… rioting in the streets, burning the shops in their own neighborhoods, destroying property, attacking innocent bystanders. At least a hundred injuries and dozens of killings were confirmed by the second day of the riots.
In a world in which thousands die tragically every day – from starvation to murder, from disease and neglect – these events might not seem particularly newsworthy. When aren’t there riots in that part of the world? When aren’t innocents killed? It happens every day.
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Afghanistan is lost. Turkey is reverting and leaving it’s former secular govt. for an Iranian type theocracy.
I’ll eat my hat if Egypt sets up anything that resembles a democratic secular government.
People have to get out of the mindset they we can convert religious fanatics.
A knee jerk reaction is thinking we’ll win Afghanistan if we stay long enough.
My koran chicken was delicious. I grilled it, rather than barbecued. It was a work night. Used a good western Carolina style sauce on it, though. Coleslaw, iced tea, some buttery rolls my wife made.
UMMM.
hello - avoiding this question?
Are we “entitled” to riot and kill muslims in western civilization for jailing or killing converts to christianity in muslim countries?
We need to get out of Afghanistan NOW. We need to get out of Libya and NATO NOW. We should get out of Iraq ASAP.
Not one of these Muslim scumbags is worth an American life.
Did we learn nothing from Vietnam? Hearts and minds is not a mission for our military. The ROE are dangerous and prioritize the enemy over our men and women. The military leadership has embraced multicultural, PC nonsense which endangers our soldiers, whether at Fort Hood or in enemy territory. We have stopped fighting wars between the PC nonsense and the desire to spare civilians who kill us because somewhere in Florida someone burned a book. They are not civilians. they are the enemy, and if we can’t fight them, we don’t belong there. If we don’t want to defeat them utterly, we don’t belong there.
rant over
Exactly. If we had the proper ROE, burning a Koran would be nothing but a fart in a windstorm.
Where have I ever said Islamaniacs are “entitled” to riot and kill? For any reason.
You really should respond only to what I have said not your hallucinations.
That has been the almost universal contention among those condemning me for condemning Jones. They have been near orgasmic with approval.
I am not quite sure what the “retaliatory behavior” or the “appeasement” is.
Unfortunately, the spread of Arrogantsobity has not reached far enough to have my acolytes rioting and killing. But I am receiving revelations allowing me to have all the beautiful women I desire. It is good to be a “prophet”.
Attacking another religion would presumably be considered to be establishing other religions given the way the Court has interpreted the “Establishment” Clause.
Western Civilization has been at war with Islam for 1300+ years. It has gone through phases of action and inaction. We are coming out of a long phase of relative inaction into a phase of action. Western demand for oil has provided the spark and fuel for that action.
I don’t support you yelling “Fire” in a crowded theater even though it is apparently within your freedom of speech.
There was nothing in any of your posts which was not responded to. If after wading through the misspellings, poor syntax, and incorrect grammar, there was any sense there.
We are allied with Muslim fighters in several areas in the Middle East who have probably had more casulties from the terrorists than we have. We have critical military facilities in the Emirates as well.
You are painting with too broad a brush and creating enemies unnecessarily.
I simply call a spade a spade but I don’t claim the authority of Christ for acceptance.
I am sorry to see that you were dropped on your head, go lie down and hopefully it will get better.
I agree wrt Egypt but don’t forget that it had a pro-Western government for 30 yrs which Urkel overthrew.
No one is claiming we should try and convert religious fanatics in Afghanistan or anywhere else. Our presence there and in Iraq is primarily to kill terrorists. It is the Roach Motel tactic. They check in and don’t check out.
Hmmmm, sounds great. But watch out for long term negative effects.
You seem to use His Word as to justify your opinion...
Our current mission in Afghanistan seems to be building schools and roads that are in turn blown up in a timely fashion while turning a blind eye to their flourishing poppy fields.
save yourself the trouble on the cheap insults...
You have blamed the riots on the actions of the preacher. If you could correctly place the blame for the deaths on the MUSLIM RIOTERS then there would be no need for the comparison.
So repeat after me: The deaths were caused by the muslim rioters. They are to blame, not the preacher.
Can you do it?
If not - then accept that in your world view, it would be equally blameless to riot and kill muslims in western civilization, for transgressions such as jailing converts to christianity in muslim countries.
Is that spelled out clearly enough for you?
And the sweet taste of defiled koran just makes it better :)
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Snivelin’, snipin’, arrogantsob ye be!!!! Ye got ye nerve!! Quit snivelin’ into yer keyboard!! It be nasty!!
:o/ Lady Twinkie of Frothdenim on Worthrupshire Glen
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