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?
Its war, our leaders in Washington are too busy to notice that most of America declared war against Islam.
We are fed up and too smart to see what Islam really is, its our enemy.
It is war and this act is a weapon and we will not surrender our weapons.
If this was 1942 Walt Disney would have cartoons of Americans burning the Koran. There were many making a mockery of Hitler and his Mein Kampf.
We are at war with Islam, maybe some people still think they can just kneel down, get their gold and uniform in supplication to Xerxes(Islam) and they will be safe and alive, war will involve death and injuries, reality bites.
This is a silly post...these bastards don't need another reason to kill our guys!!!!
They should wrap the koran with greasy bacon before lighting it on fire, then put out the flames with a shoe smeared with dog feces.
Isn’t this one of the reasons our soldiers are fighting? For freedom?
I'd explain to the parents that Muslims killed him.
Your inability to blame Muslims for their actions - as if they had no more free will than bees - is toxic and shameful.
"I may disagree with what you are saying, but I'll be damned if I will lift a finger to defend your right to say it".
No, that doesn't sound right at all.
So, we as a nation should be cowed? What do you call someone who is cowed? .... "Coward".
My son is on day 2 there as we speak. I dont know if this will cause one extra death, though my feeling is that it will. I dont know if we can make them hate us more than they do but this Koran burning certainly gives them justification in their demented minds.
My larger issue is that this is a horrible witness. Christianity takes a beating in the media everyday. Pastors are portrayed as nut jobs all of the time. I wish, so much, that this pastor wouldn’t add fuel to this fire. I cant see how his symbolic point can help with the salvation of sinners and a turning to Christ in our land. I believe that it actually hampers it.
“It’s pointless.”
The point is to send a message that we don’t respect the Koran or those who killed out countrymen based on it. It also sends the message that we are not intimidated.
“It won’t convert a single Muslim.”
Irrelevant.
“It won’t prevent a single instance of Muslim immigration into the US.”
Perhaps the most extreme would be discouraged, which is a good thing.
“It won’t expose a single act of Leftist hypocrisy (claim to support women’s rights while supporting Islamic women’s slavery, eg).”
It exposes the hypocracy of their supporting a Mosque at ground zero as religious freedom, but not the freedom to burn a koran.
“It’s dangerous. US military personnel will die who wouldn’t have otherwise died.”
Nonsense. Note that muslims are not concerned that building a mosque at ground zero will incite Americans here or in the military to kill more muslims. Backing down will show weakness and THAT will incite muslims to kill more Americans. An act of defiance will not.
“Pointless and dangerous is a bad combination.”
So is being weak and intimidated.
“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?”
Nonsense. The muzzies need no more excuses to kill Americans. do you want to explain to the parents of innocent Americans killed in the next terror attack that they died because the muslims were emboldened and inspired by our backing down?