[P-Marlowe]

For once, I'm with Hillary Clinton. Regarding the Rev. Terry Jones, would-be Quran igniter, the secretary of state said, "It is regrettable that a pastor in Gainesville, Florida, with a church of no more than 50 people can make this outrageous and ... disgraceful plan and get the world's attention, but that's the world we live in right now."

The question that needs to be addressed is why would something so innocuous as a Pastor of a Church of 50 followers burning a book create such a world wide stir and evoke threats against the entire non-Muslim world?

I think the problem is not Pastor Jones, but Islam. If Pastor Jones had threated to burn any other book ever printed, nobody would care. The fact that he wants to burn a single copy of the Koran makes everyone on the planet uneasy.

One man. One Book. One World in crisis.

[Windflier]

I think the problem is not Pastor Jones, but Islam. If Pastor Jones had threated to burn any other book ever printed, nobody would care. The fact that he wants to burn a single copy of the Koran makes everyone on the planet uneasy.

Bingo.

If some backwater Imam in Islamistan decided to burn a pile of Bibles, we would have never heard about it. The burning would have occurred on schedule, without making so much as a ripple in the Western press.

[xzins]

The fact that he wants to burn a single copy of the Koran makes everyone on the planet uneasy. One man. One Book. One World in crisis.

Beyond bizarre isn't it that the nation cowered in fear over that burning, that soldiers would die, that Jones would be attacked, that Panthers were on the move, that riots were held?

Since Imam Rauf assured us that the Islamic world would explode if they don't start building the Ground Zero Mosque, I'm expecting a statement any second from Gen Petraeus in Afghanistan, Gates at DOD, and Obama at the WH, that we need to build that mosque or we'll endanger the troops. Any second....tick,tock,tick,tock....