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Quran burning on 9/11
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Posted on 09/08/2010 4:39:30 AM PDT by yokami

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To: Jerrybob
I heard the Reverend speak and he didn't sound like a nut to me. He laid out very solid reasons why they are doing this. Personally I think it's worth doing just to show we can. Too often we supposedly free Americans have been cowed by threats of muzzie violence. Newspapers refused to print the Danish cartoons for out of fear for their employees. South Park was self-censored out of fear. Then a blogger who suggested “everybody draw Mohamed day” retracted and apologized out of fear. Thank God somebody has the balls to follow through.

As for the argument that it endangers our troops, I would suggest that policical correctness endangers them far more. Now many have died in Afghanistan because they can't get fire support if the enemy shoots from anywhere there could possibly be civilians, in the misguided attempt to "win the hearts and minds" of hostile tribesmen? How many died at Fort Hood because the officer corps has been so cowed by PC that they did nothing about an obvious jihadi in their midst out of fear of being labeled anti-Muslim? When the top general in the Army said the next day that the "most important thing" following that shooting was to prevent an "anti-Muslim backlash", not to make sure it never happens again, you knew how far the sickness has gone.

21 posted on 09/08/2010 5:01:31 AM PDT by Hugin (Remember the first rule of gunfighting...have a gun..-- Col. Jeff Cooper)
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To: yokami

I don’t want to see our troops in any more danger than they already are and I don’t believe that this burning of the Koran will do that any more than burning a copy of “Mein Kampf” or the NAZI flag did in WWII. What does increase the risk for our men is the encouragement given the enemy by announcing the date we will quit and leave.


22 posted on 09/08/2010 5:02:10 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: Jerrybob

I don’t think the pastor is a nut job. We are at war with Islam. We should never have allowed immigration into America from Muslim countries. Islam is a Satanic cult that must be exposed. Burning the Koran on 9/11 is a good way to start.


23 posted on 09/08/2010 5:02:49 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: Hugin

Great post, Hugin!


24 posted on 09/08/2010 5:06:47 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The rallying cry of American patriots.....REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!)
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To: yokami
Here is a fairly decent image of a Koran that may be about right for those that can only download an image to burn.
25 posted on 09/08/2010 5:13:53 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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26 posted on 09/08/2010 5:14:18 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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To: cweese

Hopefully it incites Muslims to act here on American soil so that we can root out the Sleepers. Probably all of them.

Lock and load, light the match. Lets get it on.


27 posted on 09/08/2010 5:15:01 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: Eye of Unk

sorry, double post meant for link only.

http://static.technorati.com/10/09/07/17803/quran.jpg


28 posted on 09/08/2010 5:15:43 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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To: cweese

Personally, I think there are a lot of Muslims that would leave Islam save for one thought and that is their worry that if Islam becomes a world dominate religion through force by radicals they and their families will be hunted down as aposphates and shown no mercy.

Sort of like belonging to the old Chicago mob; you could never leave it.


29 posted on 09/08/2010 5:16:17 AM PDT by macquire
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To: Jerrybob

“ONE NUT JOB IN FL”

whose intended action has been given all kinds of publicity by the MEDIA... Who would have heard of this free speech action without them? He has a congregation of 50 (FIFTY)!


30 posted on 09/08/2010 5:17:16 AM PDT by RebelTXRose
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To: yokami

Probably be 10,000 vids posted on Youtube...


31 posted on 09/08/2010 5:20:06 AM PDT by djf (They ain't "immigrants". They're "CRIMMIGRANTS"!!!!)
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To: RebelTXRose

He sure is exposing some hypocrisy, though. And our own government burned Bibles without a peep. People should have been at the state department scraming their heads off.


32 posted on 09/08/2010 5:20:28 AM PDT by healy61
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To: yokami

It’s pointless. It won’t convert a single Muslim. It won’t prevent a single instance of Muslim immigration into the US. It won’t expose a single act of Leftist hypocrisy (claim to support women’s rights while supporting Islamic women’s slavery, eg).

It’s dangerous. US military personnel will die who wouldn’t have otherwise died. Even if it’s only one extra death (and it will probably be more than one) it’s not worth it.

Pointless and dangerous is a bad combination.

Do you want to be the person to explain to the parents of the dead soldier that the reason s/he died is so that this church could engage in a pointless and dangerous exercise?


33 posted on 09/08/2010 5:20:35 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Hugin

A small correction, if I may. Comedy Central appears to have done the actual censorship.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/04/20/comedy-central-censors-south-park-episode-muslim-threats/


34 posted on 09/08/2010 5:21:37 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: yokami
Hillary Rodham Clinton ... threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book ... a “disrespectful, disgraceful act.”

Paging captain obvious Mrs. Clinton - that is the intent.

I generally don't agree with burning books, any books. Smacks of wanting to control/limit access to information and ideas.

However, I do fully support liberty and freedom in America. So I celebrate this guy's right to burn 'em. If he's willing to take the heat for it (pardon the pun) fine.

Lets show the world what a free society looks like. Sure, sometimes people are going to do whacked-out things. But the point is, we have the freedom to do (or not do) these things.

35 posted on 09/08/2010 5:22:05 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: yokami

Winston Churchill once said something to the effect that if we wish to enjoy the blessings of free speech then we must be prepared to occasionally put up with some foolish speech. Nowhere is that more evident than with this media whore of a ‘preacher’ and his four dozen or so adherents.


36 posted on 09/08/2010 5:23:08 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: yokami

If we don’t stand now, When?

They came first for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.


37 posted on 09/08/2010 5:24:04 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: Hugin
Eventually Muslims will be demanding stoning of women in the USA, and if we don't comply, there will be violence. (As if they don't threaten us with Violence anyway.)

Lets draw the line in the sand now with their book of indoctrination. Its garbage. Keep it in the Middle east, but don't bring it here.

38 posted on 09/08/2010 5:24:39 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: yokami
Although I don't really think burning a Quran is very productive in its self, the reaction has been very productive. We, of course, have the “moderate” Muslims reacting like a bunch of spoiled brats and burning the US flag and rioting, and we have the self abusing US left condemning the Pastor for even suggesting it. Why, then are they not condemning the Muslims? Well, because the American Pastor and his followers won't blow-up a grade school in a sign of how peaceful a religion they are, and our ruling class is nothing but a bunch of yellow bellied bullies that can't stand up to anyone who would actually fight back.
39 posted on 09/08/2010 5:25:30 AM PDT by 95B30 ( The Professional Left: "Their morals are crooked, their logic is flawed, their honor is stolen)
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To: Jerrybob
You're right. Sadly, in Amerika it is apparently nearly as provocative an act to say, respectfully wash an American flag and then display it in public. Particularly on Cinco de Mayo.

Saw a great Flag on the back of a very big biker's leathers a few months back. The text around the flag said "Try burining this one a**hole" Made me smile, the image of some twig-armed "artist" trying to get that 270 lb+ guy's colors...

40 posted on 09/08/2010 5:25:36 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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