Here is a fairly decent image of a Koran that may be about right for those that can only download an image to burn.
Posted on 09/08/2010 4:39:30 AM PDT by yokami
Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called a Florida church’s threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks a “disrespectful, disgraceful act.” (Sept. 7 Qur’an burning day to mark the 9/11 attacks says he is determined to go ahead in the face of fierce condemnation from the Obama administration.
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.
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.
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.
Great post, Hugin!
Here is a fairly decent image of a Koran that may be about right for those that can only download an image to burn.
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.
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.
“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)!
Probably be 10,000 vids posted on Youtube...
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.
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?
A small correction, if I may. Comedy Central appears to have done the actual censorship.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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