Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

From Burning Heretics to Burning Books
Family Security Matters ^ | September 8, 2010 | The Editor

Posted on 09/08/2010 4:10:58 AM PDT by captjanaway

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-28 last
To: captjanaway

heretics? aka Infidels?


21 posted on 09/08/2010 5:48:49 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SF_Redux

OK, some Muslims want to kill all the Americans and some Americans want to kill all the Muslims. Like you said in your other post, why is everyone making a big deal about it? Most don’t.


22 posted on 09/08/2010 5:51:53 AM PDT by expat_panama
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: comps4spice

Get with reality, please. If this were truly a group of dedicated atheists planning a mass BIBLE and/or Torah burnings, the MSM and lefties would happily cover the event LIVE and furnish the lighter fluid.
“Live breaking news on CNN etc.”


23 posted on 09/08/2010 6:54:05 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf ( NY Times: We print the news as it fits our views.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: comps4spice
...negative publicity for them.

With whom? People like me see it as a positive development and applaud them taking a stand.

Do you mean "negative publicity" among our enemies? Don't be daft. The only positive publicity we could have with them is if we committed mass suicide.

24 posted on 09/08/2010 7:26:22 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Good video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIPoPw9zgvQ&feature=player_embedded)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: captjanaway

If the Korans are private property there is nothing to prevent the owners from destroying their own private stock, or using them as toilet paper. It is not like shredding other people’s Bibles as they do in Saudi Arabia.

So, get over it world!


25 posted on 09/08/2010 8:11:41 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( AKA Rodrigo de Bivar)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: captjanaway
When Bibles are burned - or even our own flag - for that matter, it is freedom of speech. But burn a Koran....... NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

I've seen this point raised over and over on this topic, and I have to ask--who is saying burning Bibles and the flag are good things, or things not to worry about?

Answer: People we don't like in the first place--libs especially.

Why is the most prominent justification for this that liberals are acting like liberals? I couldn't give a damn what THEY think about this stuff.

The attitude seems to be "We'll show THEM! We'll really tick THEM off!"

But, and no offense directed to you, isn't that a childish response?

People can do whatever they want to their Korans or however it's spelled, but this "Burn a Bible, it's okay, but burn a Koran? NO!!!! Well, we'll show THEM!" stuff is just silly.

And frankly, all this silliness isn't worth one hair on one of our soldiers' heads. If burning a Koran had ANY positive result in the WOT, I wouldn't care. But if it causes one loony Muslim to hurt ONE soldier, I sure hope those who supported this will step forward and proudly say they supported this demonstration of one thing and one thing only--that Americans can burn books.

26 posted on 09/08/2010 8:34:53 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown. -- written by Robert Towne)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Darkwolf377
Principles count - Culture counts.

Lest we forget the unbridgeable chasm between Judeo-Christianity and Islam, here are the words of Winston Churchill regarding Islam:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the inference of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”

Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).

Islam is antithetical to, and irreconcilable with, America.

Islam Delenda est - because Muslims are commanded to forcibly convert, kill, or enslave all non-Muslims.

27 posted on 09/08/2010 10:11:22 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: GladesGuru
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

thanks for that blast from the Bulldog past...Ive been all morning thinking 'can a rabid dog become more dangerous' ???

28 posted on 09/08/2010 12:42:20 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-28 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson