[Rashputin]

I don't recall the White House ever requesting that Islamic references and sayings be covered up when Barry spoke at a Muslim gathering, yet Georgetown is requested to do so. Does anyone know of an occasion where Barry spoke and there were symbols of Islam clearly in evidence?

[Jeff Chandler]

Islam is rather iconoclastic.

[combat_boots]

Cairo. Istanbul. Somalia.

I wanna see Jerusalem. The skull cap (yarmuka??) will probably have the Arabic inscription on the top of the Dome of the Rock: (paraphrase) God Has no son. Maybe it’ll be hidden on its underside, along with relevant sayings from the Koran.

[EyeGuy]

I’d like to burn the overrated doggerel that is “Gravity’s Rainbow”.

[Le Chien Rouge]

All religions are equal.

Some more equal than others.

[Monkey Face]

Georgetown should never have caved to such an insult to Christianity. What a bunch of cowards.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Book burning isn’t what it used to be. It’s not as if you could actually destroy every copy of any controversial book.
The quran’s on the web. Download a copy and fry it in your recycle bin.
Too mild? Download, print, and videotape tossing it in your fireplace (or birdcage, or whatever) and put it on youtube.

However, if you’re going to do something public, I recommend you also read the quran out loud. There are passages people need to hear, to appreciate fully what you’re doing.

[Logic n' Reason]

My Dad once burned one of my Superman comic books; he used it as kindling for a fire in the fireplace.

Oh the humanity!!!!!

[Logic n' Reason]

My Dad once burned one of my Superman comic books; he used it as kindling for a fire in the fireplace.

Oh the humanity!!!!!

[sten]

wasn’t there something about denying the Lord when asked

somehow, i see a parallel

[JimSEA]

If anyone is asking me the title question, I might consider burning Das Kapital, Mien Kampf and Mao's Little Red Book. I wouldn't do it in the end because, like the Koran, people need to know just what those books contain and what their adherents are thinking.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

With all this interest and discussion, I am starting to think it would be a great idea to burn the Quran on Saturday in my back yard in protest to what happened to over 3000 of my fellow citizens on 9/11. Afterall, Muslims cheered in the streets when the twin towers came down. They need to show a little tolerance at our rage!

[Cicero]

This editorial would have been strengthened if the author had known about an unpublicized incident when army authorities in Afghanistan last year ordered Bibles to be burned.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2586041/posts

So, it’s OK if the military under Obama burns a Bible, presumably with his blessing, but it’s not OK if a private party threatens to burn a Koran?

[ConservaTexan]

A couple autobiographies by an empty suit man-child come to mind.

[annieokie]

Throw in the 2 books that Zero "WROTE", lol and all or anything by Al Gore.

Those along with the idiot islams funny book, and they should have a right nice bonfire for roasting whatever.

[Publius6961]

Anyone who has actually seen Gaston Hall at Georgetown would be doubly irritated on simply aesthetic grounds. If I remember right, Clinton also made the same request at least once while speaking there. I simply don't understand.

If the Christian symbolism offends these conflicted "Americans," why can't they simply speak somewhere else? In both those instances, the weight of tradition and prestige of the august institution certainly outranks those small men with temporary "entitlement."
Since 1789 is an awfully long time. I often wondered if, when Clinton attended the Walsh School of Foreign Service there, he was allowed to make such an absurd request when he was required to be in Gaston Hall.

I absolutely believe that when voluntarily visiting a retarded clture, no matter how primitive, it is a choice to defer to their customs no matter how bizzare. However, when finding ourselves in a hostile country as victors in a conflict, we make the rules and set the conditions.

When we are there in response to help of any kind, military or humanitarian, again, we make the rules, we don't defer to the subhumans.

I just love the military rules. Does a citizen lose the Bill of Rights when serving, if it does not conflict or directly compromise his duties as a soldier? Does reading a bible during his off duty time compromise his duties? Does wearing a crucifix or medal? Only a frighteningly rigid and arbitrary mind would think so.
Specially, if restrictions are created to "please" the people who requested help, or lost a war, a second thought is in order.
Particularly, when we have no more wealth or blood to give, "take it or leave it" is the order of the day.

People have to sacrifice in their own country to be secure and free; When someone else must do it for them, it must be totaly voluntary, on an individual basis, or not at all.

When execution is restored for cowardice, insubordination and treason, I might reconsider. Or not. Most people choose to die on their own terms.

[sionnsar]

Muslims burning down Catholic churches in Sudan and Nigeria is commonplace according to African priests who visited my parish this past year.

And not just Catholic, according to a protestant missionary friend in Abuja.