Bonfire of the Insanities. (In response to Gen David Petraeus' denunciation of Florida pastor)

Human Events ^ | 09/09/10 | Ann Coulter

[American Dream 246]

In response to Gen David Petraeus' denunciation of Florida pastor Terry Jones' right to engage in a symbolic protest of the 9/11 attacks by burning copies of the Quran this Sept. 11, President Obama said: "Let me be clear: As a citizen, and as president, I believe that members of the Dove World Outreach Center have the same right to freedom of speech and religion as anyone else in this country."

Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida lauded Obama's remarks, saying America is "a place where you're supposed to be able to practice your religion without the government telling you you can't."

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called Obama's words a "clarion defense of the freedom of religion" -- and also claimed that he had recently run into a filthy jihadist who actually supported the Quran-burning!

Keith Olbermann read the poem "First they came ..." on air in defense of the Quran-burners, nearly bringing himself to tears at his own profundity.

No wait, my mistake. This is what liberals said about the ground zero mosque only five minutes ago when they were posing as First Amendment absolutists. Suddenly, they've developed amnesia when it comes to the free-speech right to burn a Quran.

Weirdly, conservatives who opposed building the mosque at ground zero are also against the Quran burning. (Except in my case. It turns out I'm for it, but mostly because burning Qurans will contribute to global warming.)

Liberals couldn't care less about the First Amendment. To the contrary, censoring speech and religion is the left's specialty! (Any religion other than Islam.)

They promote speech codes, hate crimes, free speech zones (known as "America" off college campuses), and go around the country yanking every reference to God from the public square via endless lawsuits by the ACLU.

Whenever you see a liberal choking up over our precious constitutional rights, you can be sure we're talking about the rights of Muslims at ground zero, "God Hates Fags" funeral protesters, strippers, The New York Times publishing classified documents, pornographers, child molesters, murderers, traitors, saboteurs, terrorists, flag-burners (but not Quran-burners!) or women living on National Endowment of the Arts grants by stuffing yams into their orifices on stage.

Speaking of lying dwarfs, last week on "The Daily Show" Bloomberg claimed he was having a hamburger with his "girlfriend" when a man came up to him and said of the ground zero mosque: "I just got back from two tours fighting overseas for America. This is what we were all fighting for. You go and keep at it."

We're fighting for the right of Muslims to build mosques at ground zero? I thought we were trying to keep Muslims AWAY from our skyscrapers. (What an embarrassing misunderstanding.) PLEASE PULL THE TROOPS OUT IMMEDIATELY.

But back to the main issue: Was Bloomberg having a $150 Burger Double Truffle at DB Bistro Moderne or a more sensible $30 burger at the 21 Club when he bumped into his imaginary veteran? With the pint-sized mayor shrieking at the sight of a saltshaker, I assume he wasn't having a Hardee's No. 4 Combo Meal.

Adding an element of realism to his little vignette, Bloomberg said: "I got a hamburger and a pickle and a potato chip or something."

A potato chip? Translation: "I don't know what I was eating, because I'm making this whole story up -- I wouldn't be caught dead eating 'a potato chip' or any other picaresque garnish favored by the peasants." At least Bloomberg didn't claim the man who walked up to him took credit for setting the Times Square bomb because he was a tea partier upset about ObamaCare -- as Sherlock Bloomberg had so presciently speculated at the time.

Gen. Petraeus objected to the Quran-burning protest on the grounds that it could be used by radical jihadists to recruit Muslims to attack Americans.

This is what liberals say whenever we do anything displeasing to the enemy -- invade Iraq, hold captured terrorists in Guantanamo, interrogate captured jihadists or publish Muhammad cartoons. Is there a website somewhere listing everything that encourages terrorist recruiting?

If the general's main objective is to hamper jihadist recruiting, may I respectfully suggest unconditional surrender? Because on his theory, you know what would really kill the terrorists' recruiting ability? If we adopted Sharia law!

But wait -- weren't we assured by Fire Island's head of national security, Andrew Sullivan, that if America elected a "brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy," the terrorists would look like a bunch of lunkheads and be unable to recruit?

It didn't work out that way. There have been more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by these allegedly calmed Muslims in Obama's first 18 months in office than in the six years under Bush after he invaded Iraq.

Also, as I recall, there was no Guantanamo, no Afghanistan war and no Iraq war on Sept. 10, 2001. And yet, somehow, Osama bin Ladin had no trouble recruiting back then. Can we retire the "it will help them recruit" argument yet?

The reason not to burn Qurans is that it's unkind -- not to jihadists, but to Muslims who mean us no harm. The same goes for building a mosque at ground zero -- in both cases, it's not a question of anyone's "rights," it's just a nasty thing to do.

[Jmouse007]

Its OK for the US Army to BURN LOTS OF BIBLES owned by American GI’s under IMAM Obamessiah but don’t you dare burn any Korans.

[Tzimisce]

Finally - someone agrees with me.

[OldArmy52]

If the pastor would burn Bibles instead, it’d be ok.
Christianity being a religion that doesn’t cut your head off if you don’t convert (or do convert and then have buyer’s remorse).

Remember the art exhibit of the guy who exhibited a Bible in urine? Maybe to celebrate diversity and outreach, he’d place a Koran in a bowl of urine too....the “religion of peace” folks would surely show love and tolerance about it...for however long it took them to find him and cut his head off with a dull kitchen knife.

[caww]

There have been more terrorist attacks ON U.S.SOIL by these allegedly calmed Muslims in Obama's first 18 months in office than in the six years under Bush AFTER he invaded Iraq.

Needs to be stated again...and again...and again.

[goodnesswins]

There have been more terrorist attacks ON U.S.SOIL by these allegedly calmed Muslims in Obama's first 18 months in office than in the six years under Bush AFTER he invaded Iraq.

[TheThinker]

If these people are so intent on burning Korans, maybe they should go put on a uniform and pick up a gun and fight some Taliban. That would be constructive.

The Dove Church is run by Leftist moles anyway. I'm sure there's a Democrat behind this, waiting to capitalize on the dangerous situation that will develop following this masturbatory stunt.

The freakin Muslims know we're not afraid of them. We invaded not one but two of their countries.

[Eye of Unk]

Bottom line is that everybody is still afraid of being on Obamas bad side because he is a Muslim, Obama doesn’t have to order retaliation against an opponent, all he has to do is imply that a 3 am visit from the head loppers may happen.

Its no wonder almost everyone is afraid of insulting Islam because we have a President that is a Muslim.

[shibumi]

"The reason not to burn Qurans is that it's unkind -- not to jihadists, but to Muslims who mean us no harm."

"Muslims who mean us no harm" are creatures who belong in the same category as Bigfoot, Sasquatch and the loch Ness Monster.

In fact, I believe there's more empirical evidence for the existence of the cryptids.

[Leisler]

I suppose fire bombing Germany, and bombing Poland, Italy, Austria,Belgium,Netherlands,France, Denmark, Japan, fighting room to room through Manila, bombing/shelling countless islands in the Pacific, having direct orders to US Navy submarine captains to sink Japanese cargo ships known to have American and allied prisoners locked in the hulls...was mean to people who meant us no harm.

[ansel12]

The freakin Muslims know we're not afraid of them.

Then why have major Hollywood leaders and news media, admitted that they are afraid of them and conduct their industries accordingly? America is terrified of Muslims.

[Eye of Unk]

We cannot win this fight playing fair.

Time to fight “nasty”.

Nobody wants a 3am visit from the Islamic head loppers Union so of course they will put on a song and dance routine to stop Americans from burning the Koran.

Its the American version of Al Taqyaa, lie to the heathens so they won’t behead you chapter.

[Tzimisce]

Coulter hits it on the head again.

[TheThinker]

Then why have major Hollywood leaders and news media, admitted that they are afraid of them and conduct their industries accordingly? America is terrified of Muslims.

Liberal America is terrified of Muslims. Liberals have no foresight and consequently are always surprised when someone wants to kill them.

I just think burning Korans will grow radical Islam into a force so strong that we'll have to fight a world war against them.

Certainly, we may lose Iraq and never defeat the Taliban if we start enraging millions of Muslims. It's like poking at sharks before jumping into the shark tank.

[TigerClaws]

Agree.

Muslims have Americans running scared.

Libs in Hollywood that attack Jesus and Christians every chance they get are too scared to run a cartoon making fun of Mohammed.

Rather than supporting Free Speech, EVERY commentator and politicians has come out opposing the Koran burning. What about the RIGHT to do it vs. what is right to do?

That speech applies to the Ground Zero Victory Mosque? No, Obama said the opposite for that.

Yet we are to be sensitive to Muslims.

Now the “phobia” (adopted from the fraud ‘homophobia’) of Islam is the latest tactic: Make the fear seem irrational.

Was it irrational for the Christian medical team slaughtered in the mountains of a Muslim country?

Was it irrational fear for a filmmaker slaughtered like a dog by a Muslim?

Everyone is running scared of Muslims. You have people who WANT TO DIE for their free ride to ‘heaven’ (of course, they all go straight to hell). How do you stop crazy people like that?

Americans are afraid of Muslims.

ONE Pastor stands up to them and nobody supports his First Amendment rights.

If he were burning American flags or Bibles... there’d be petitions coming out in support. Hollywood elites would speak up. ACLU would file lawsuits to protect him.

If you can’t exercise your free speech rights without fear of death in our country, then we no longer live in a free country.

[caww]

“There have been more terrorist attacks.....ON U.S. SOIL... by these alledgedly calmed Muslims in Obama’s first 18 months in office than in six years under Bush....AFTER...he invaded Iraq”........Anne Coulter....

Thanks goodnesswins....

[darkside321]

ONE Pastor stands up to them and nobody supports his First Amendment rights.

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They only problem i have with this is that other people will have to pay with their life for this.
Of course it shouldn´t be this way but we all know what will happen in places like afghanistan if you do this.

[Eye of Unk]

I am beginning to think this event is an alarm bell for the sleeping giant called America.

I see a ton of news about this church, a lot of it is controversial to say the least, I cannot say if its truly patriotism on his part to to this event or an act of insanity.

Regardless of who is starting this it has truly flushed the enemy out, it has many people too scared to make a courageous patriotic stand against Islam. And for every person that is trying to appease Islam into not lopping their heads off a thousand more will go have a Koran bonfire, I am fully aware this is an unneccesary and prvacative act but I have had enough.

I am tired of having a President surrender to Islam on a daily basis, so when I burn my little Koran in the privacy of my burn barrel I will say Obama caused me to do this.

[ansel12]

I just think burning Korans will grow radical Islam into a force so strong that we'll have to fight a world war against them.

Now would be the best time in history to do that, without a cataclysmic event, then they will be reaching a point of no return population wise and culturally in our nations.

Now would be the time for events to be so massive and disturbing that it would lead the west to drive out their Muslim colonizers, and forbid them further entry.

[VeniVidiVici]

Long ago, in a land far away ....