Why the American Flag?
You have to ask?
Because the Westboro freaks are America-hating a**holes who cheer when our soldiers are killed. (The Dove people in Florida are supporters of them and have marched with them). These are the nuts that protest at our soldier's funerals.
You must not be familiar with Fred Phelps and his crew. They're the ones that picket soldier funerals and have the website godhatesamerica.com. That's why they'll burn a U.S. flag.
As to why they'll burn either one to begin with, there's apparently a relationship between Westboro and the group in Florida. Media whores of a feather, flock together, that kind of thing.
I know.
Koran = book, considered a religious ‘text’ by Muslims.
American flag = a symbol of freedom and the US.
Logically, Muslims should burn a Bible, not the flag. Killing or threatening to kill someone over it means burning => killing. Therefore, there is absolutely no correlation to any deductive or inductive logic that justifies the actions either of the Muslims, Rauf, or the American media.
Note the logic here and replace it with appropriate wording for current events. I’m trying to put words to how Wikipedia has presented the forms of logic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning
“Statistical syllogism
A statistical syllogism proceeds from a generalization to a conclusion about an individual.
A proportion Q of population P has attribute A.
An individual X is a member of P.
Therefore:
There is a probability which corresponds to Q that X has A.
The proportion in the first premise would be something like “3/5ths of”, “all”, “few”, etc. Two dicto simpliciter fallacies can occur in statistical syllogisms: “accident” and “converse accident”.
Simple induction
Simple induction proceeds from a premise about a sample group to a conclusion about another individual.
Proportion Q of the known instances of population P has attribute A.
Individual I is another member of P.
Therefore:
There is a probability corresponding to Q that I has A.
This is a combination of a generalization and a statistical syllogism, where the conclusion of the generalization is also the first premise of the statistical syllogism.
Argument from analogy
Main article: False analogy
Some philosophers believe that an argument from analogy is a kind of inductive reasoning.
An argument from analogy has the following form:
I has attributes A, B, and C
J has attributes A and B
So, J has attribute C”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning
I am having a hard time finding any logic or fallacy that explains things accurately. Help!
Because it’s Westboro Baptist. They make Alan Grayson look sane.
So people will put them on TV.
Why the American Flag?
To confuse the Muslims.
“Why the American Flag?”
Because he is an equal oportunity nutcase.