Posted on 09/09/2010 10:36:31 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
In the column, I suggest we can assess the silliness of the rationalizations of the Ground Zero mosque by applying them to Pastor Terry Jones’s similarly provocative Koran-burning escapade — entirely legal, but a gratuitously offensive thing to do.
But that doesn’t begin to cover how vapid the commentary continues to be, particularly from the commander-in-chief — as President Obama took pains to remind us he is in an interview by George Stephanopoulos this morning.
According to Obama, Jones’s “stunt” (a fair description) is already “a recruitment bonanza for al Qaeda.” That’s absurd. No sensible person joins a terrorist organization dedicated to mass-murdering human beings because somebody torches a Koran.
If the president, who is principally responsible for American national security, actually believes what he says, what is his excuse for not confronting Islamic regimes? Not looney-tunes pastors with followings smaller than the First Lady’s traveling caravan; Islamic governments that confiscate and destroy bibles, crucifixes, Stars of David, and other articles of profound religious substance and symbolism to non-Muslims. That goes on, systematically, every single day — although not as often as you’d imagine because Islamic societies are so innately intolerant that there aren’t a lot of non-Muslim religious items to be found in, say, Saudi Arabia.
Jones is going to burn a Koran; sharia states kill human beings who renounce Islam. Does the president have an explanation for why Christians and Jews are not forming terror cells with the bonanzas of recruits that must be forming up on a daily basis given the sorts of “stunts” that, in Saudi Arabia, are known as law-enforcement?
Terry Jones is a jackass. I wish Americans would trip over themselves with a fraction of the zeal on display here to condemn the torching of the American flag — a symbol of freedom and sacrifice. But that’s beside the point. Burning a book sacred to Muslims is a stupid, provocative thing to do. Yet, it is conscious avoidance — okay, willful blindness — to claim that he is causing the threat to our troops, in addition to the threat of other attacks and rioting by Muslims (of the sort we’ve seen with the Danish cartoons, the false claims of Koran-flushing at Gitmo, the school teacher who named the teddy-bear Mohammed, etc.).
Those are all pretexts. The cause is Islamist ideology, which is dehumanizing of non-Muslims (or, in the case of the Ahmadi, even of Muslims who reject core parts of Islamic doctrine). It is the ideology that puts the world’s Muslims on a hair-trigger.
What Jones is doing is a desecration, not a national security threat. It merits being derided, as any desecration does. And it may indeed provoke a spike in the violence that will go, spike or no spike. But the national security problem is not Koran burning. It is a civilization indoctrinated by an ideology ever on the prowl for any excuse, real or imagined, to make mayhem. Wouldn’t it be nice if, while they publicly chide an American citizen for striking the match, our public officials took the occasion to chide the culture that turns its societies into dynamite?
Ping
Keyword...sensible...you think murdering terrorists are sensible? They join even when someone doesn’t burn a Koran, don’t they?
I strongly recommend that people all over the world, especially Muslims burn Korans. I know it is a waste of toilet paper, but there is always a risk that some Islamic poison might attack the brain from a quick reading before wiping. People could toss them in the garbage, but there is always the chance that pages could blow free, and contaminate some dullard’s mind. Besides, they will either get buried or burned once the trash reaches its destination, so why bother, burn them now.
And funny how all kinds of people are racing to the cameras to express outrage at burning the koran, but they can't bring themselves to express outrage at honor killings, abuse of women, genital mutilation.......and on and on.
Islam must be an awfully fragile religion to be so hysterical over one copy of the Koran being burned. What happens if an arsonist in an Islamic country burns a house with a Koran in it? Do they behead the perp? How about a car accident which results in loss of a Koran - is the responsible driver executed? Sheesh.
Excellent article.
The Anti-Muslim Society wholeheartedly supports the public burnings of the Koran as political and social statements and encourages it to become a national event in every city.
AMS is run by Chris Davis. :P
Geez, stop saying it’s a desecration. If you revere something as Holy or sacred it’s a desecration, but do these commentators view the koran as such? I don’t. Why do they?
“AMS is run by Chris Davis.”
Okay! I’m more for not joining anything, just getting people to rid themselves of Islamic poisoning. Muslims are especially in need of Koran burnings. They need the mental and spiritual enlightenment the absence of Islam brings. Love the Muslims, and hate the demonic religion that oppresses them.
At the very least, it could result in polls being "guarded" by SEIU members and Black Pampers so as to "stop any trouble." In any case, I look for this "guarding" to take place on Eric Holder's orders.
We heard all this crap during Clinton's Presidency, and it's just as silly now.
Someone want to tell me how the children in Beslan offended the terrorists?
Absolutely. It appears someone is just begging for a crisis to bring the hammer down...
They were Christians.
Holy New-Martyrs of Beslan, pray to Christ Our God that our souls may be saved!
Saudi Arabia Desecrates Hundreds of Bibles Annually (Saudi Institute Friday, 20 May 2005 by Zachary Liben)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1410190/posts
Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:07:42 AM by paltz
Washington DC - The Saudi government burns and desecrates hundreds of bibles its security forces confiscate after raids on Christian expatriates worshiping privately or at border crossings.
As a matter of official policy, the government either incinerates or dumps bibles, crosses and other Christian paraphernalia.
Hundreds of Christian worshipers are arrested every year by Saudi police in raids on their private gatherings. Bibles, crosses and printed materials are confiscated and later burnt or dumped into trash. Bibles and other Christian paraphernalia found with travelers into the country are confiscated and destroyed.
Although considered as holy in Islam and mentioned in the Koran dozens of times, the Bible is banned in Saudi Arabia, and is confiscated and destroyed by government officials.
In the old america if they had threatened to kill our soldiers for a guy burning the koran we would have said “every one of our soldiers you kill, we’ll kill 100 of you”
But sadly we are in the new america governed by liberals and rinos who believe that constitutional rights end when muslims start making threats.
Andy, you da man!
I’m with you on that score, but don’t look for many more.
The USA is looking more like France and Britain everyday.
The “S” is standing for “Spineless” more and more.
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