Posted on 09/11/2010 10:48:26 AM PDT by Wiggins
A hate-filled protester was escorted away from the Ground Zero mosque site this morning after tearing apart a Koran and burning some of the pages — an early sign that the rancor was ramping up as numerous protests were set to begin.
The man, who refused to identify himself, walked up the corner of Murray and Church streets with a green Koran in his hands. Amid a crowd of protestors and media, he first tore a page from the holy book and tossed it into the air.
He then ripped a couple of more pages from the book and lit them on fire.
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Why is that hate filled?
Objection: hearsay. The reporter has no clue what emotion is in that man’s mind. Judge: Sustained.
Would they arrest someone burning an American flag?
If a bunch of Mulsims threw a celebration at the WTC site, would they be described as “hate filled”??
Why is burning pages from a book, news in America? Are we turning into “The View”?
At the very least, one must say that Jones’s planned act is not mindless. He is performing a certain act, and he has laid out his reasons for performing it. His reasons are that Islam is anti-Christ, anti the West, anti liberty, and anti human decency. His view is that Islam is a danger to everything we cherish and everything we are. By burning a Koran, he is expressing his complete rejection of Islam, and causing other people to think about why he is rejecting Islam. Since I myself believe and have frequently stated that Islam does not belong in the West, how can I condemn a man who is expressing the same idea through a strong symbolic act? An act that is not illegal and is not harming anyone. An act that will force people to think—is Islam the enemy of ourselves and of everything we cherish, or not? Does Islam belong among us, or not?
People are saying that the Koran burning will cause Muslims to kill innocent people. Perhaps it will. But the Danish cartoons caused Muslims to kill innocent people. Islam demands aggressive war against non-Muslims, including the killing of innocents, because from the Muslim point of view there is no such thing as an innocent non-Muslim. The clearest and most frequently repeated message of the Koran, appearing on almost every page, is that all non-Muslims are guilty of the monstrous crime of rejecting Allah and his prophet, and thereby deserve death and eternal torture. Why should we respect such a book? Why should we respect such a religion? Sooner or later, people in the West (and people in the non-Muslim world generally) must come to recognize the nature and teachings of Islam. They can have that recogition sooner, and prevent much violence, or they can have that recognition much later, only after Muslims have gained substantial power over our societies and get in a position to harm anyone who opposes them. My view is: the sooner the truth comes out, the better; the sooner things come to a head, the safer we will be.
Couldn’t get me to convict him on a jury.
Who the hell writes this crap? A hate-filled journalist?
Because it refused to submit to Islam silly.
Burn it! I don’t give a flying F*ck what they do with that book. Hopefully it brings out the radicals, so we know which ones need to be targeted.
- Stayfrosty
He did the world a favor,
Did he have a bomb strapped to him?
Is he perhaps *grief-filled* and not *hate-filled*?
Or is he a repentent Muslim?
Or a new convert to Islam - just putting on a show.
How do we know?
When Muslims are thronging the streets burning American flags and threatening death to us all, they’re merely angry, never “hate filled”. An angry American demostrating against these people who want us dead is “hate” filled.
Convict him of what? I'm sure even starting a fire in public without a permit is just something you'd get a citation and small fine for. Other than that, what did he do that was illegal?
HATE filled bill ayers stomps on AMERICAN Flag.
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