If this BS goes down, I can GUARANTEE there wil be many less Korans laying around.....
OK, those out there that know who you are.
Time to start telling this writer that he is as loony as the Pastor that dared to exercise his Constitutional Rights.
How about condemning the UNJUSTIFIED EXTREME REACTION AND KILLING by MUSLIMS?!?!?
While I think Terry Jones is an idiot and possible agent of change, if they try to outlaw burning a koran it will guarantee that I burn a whole stack of them myself.
I haven't see any liberals proposing that but I am still amazed that the SCOTUS declared that burning a cross is NOT protected free speech but burning a flag is. I assume that was another result of Justice O ‘Conner's flip a coin decisions.
Is burning the Qu’ran offensive? Of course it is. So is burning a Bible, the Rig Veda, the Torah, the Dhammaphada, or any other text that people hold to be sacred. Not to mention blowing up churches, Sufi shrines, torching Jewish synagoges and American flags, and of course beheading people with dull butter knives in the name of God.
Nonetheless, as a wonderful friend of mine told me many years ago, the greatest thing about America is that you have the constiutionally protected right to be an a$$#ole. Pastor Jones is simply excercising this right. When anyone speaks of outlawing an offensive act in order not to offend the rights of a minority (or even the majority) then I have a problem. In this case, the proposed remedy is worse than the illness it’s intended to cure. Pastor Jones is an attention-whore, but it’s within his rights to be one. Enough said. As Voltaire once put it, “I disagree with everything you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Koran burning should stay legal. Perhaps more should be burned rather than less. Islam is a violent, aggressive religion which needs to be challenged. Right now it is conquering decadent Europe without a shot being fired.
It’s amazing and sad that this is the state of affairs in 2011.
Will Koran Burning Be Banned In The United States?
Before it got to that my support for our involvement in Afghanistan would come to a halt.
Let there be NO mistake. We are not in Afghanistan to protect their freedom and create a democracy. We are there to protect our freedom and democracy it just so happens we’re doing it by giving them a taste of freedom of their own.
If the result is to be banning any form of freedom of speech here in the USA, we lost the battle of Afghanistan. Time to bring them home.
And how much longer will it be legal for Jews to own a copy?
ML/NJ
Where does one buy a koran and how much does one cost?
There are places that give away Bibles, (The Gideons). Is there such a place that gives away korans?
I’d like to burn some of them too but I don’t want to actually pay for one, that would profit some muzzie organization.
I know I’ve been consistent on this issue all along. I’ve supported people’s right to burn a flag, though I think they’re jackasses. The same here, I support Pastor Jone’s right to burn a Koran though I think he’s a jackass. I wish both of these things would not happen, but I would not stop people from doing it. No need to put our troops in any more danger than they have to be. What Pastor Jones did by burning the Koran, made our troops less safe. That’s just a plain fact.
What bothers me the most in this whole thing is the chilling words of Senator Graham. “Free speech is a great idea, but we’re at war”. It’s not an idea Senator Graham. It’s a natural right given to us by our creator. This is one of the worst aspects of a free society going to war. The possibility of suppressing our rights and freedoms may be at stake in the name of “security”. It’s funny, all of these leftist pinkos complained about the Patriot Act where the gubmint was going to monitor our phone calls and look at what library books we checked out. That was all malarkey. Yet now when Senators hint at a true natural right being supressed, the left says nothing. Oh, yeah. Forgot, Obama’s President....
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
If someone burns a koran, and no one is around to sensationalize it, does matter?
The conversation in this world SHOULD be about the real atrocities like Christians being beheaded for refusing Islam.
If this government bans the burning of the koran then America no longer exsists.
Why not just say yes, and leave out the...’but maybe not for long’? The fact is yes, the maybe just gets people all riled up. It’s not the least bit necessary or productive.
What does it say when his insurance is cancelled and the police want to charge him for protection? To me it just proves that everyone knows muslims are a bunch of crazy, violent people.
Want to make something popular?
Ban it.
Korans would be burning all over if the gub mint made it illegal.
Oh yeah, what about that little freedom of speech freedom of expression thingy?
Yet it’s ok to have a photo of Christ in a bottle of piss?
Need to gets me a Koran just in case.
Incredible. During WW2 we encouraged HUMILIATION of the enemy as a way to fire up our side for a tough fight. Now we practically jail people trying to do the same.
Not difficult to believe.
Would you want to cover his risk?