The non-koran-burning.

[dogmush]

True, but we shouldn't abuse them either.

If this is abusing our rights ( ) Then it's abusing them at the same level as an NWA video, or Hannah Montana pretending she's not sexual. Actually NWA might be worse, as the people it's exorting to violence are at least in this hemisphere.

It's a rude attention stunt.  That's it. Nothing more.

If it incites violence in some Muslims the problem is with....wait for it....with Muslims that think violence is an appropriate response to being offended.  In the civilized world when one is offended, but not harmed, you deal with it not blow *expletive deleted*it up.  They (the extremists) need to learn that lesson or be shot like dogs. Acting like AHP (I really like that) is somehow responsable for the violence of other people on the oppisite side of the world because he "abused" his right to talk freely is half way to the left's favorite response to their opressed classes.  "It's not the terrorists fault, AHP didn't respect them enough"  Please.  it's there fault.  He's making my state look like a bunch of inbred hicks, but you don't see me threating to detcord his church. 

He's not abusing snot.  He's one more of a parade of tasteless, tactless folks the media has chosen to blast across the world.  Pretending he has any controll over what terrorists do or don't attack is asinine.

On that note, what do you think?  Is there a bunch of terrorists in A-Stan with weapons and a really good plan, waiting for an excuse?  The occuping army, installing a (to them) corrupt government, and trumpted from Al-Jezzera as the next crusade isin't enough to make them attack.  What they're waiting for is someone to burn a Koran in FL.  That'll be the straw that makes them go after US forces.  Right.

[Perd Hapley]

Chill.  Go look at what I was responding to before you draw unwarranted conclusions.

[MicroBalrog]

What we need to do is this:

1. Order (from a reasonable manufacturer) 50,000 books mocked up to look like the Qur'an, but entirely empty (as in, blank page). Possibly this stage can be achieved by purchasing 50,000 Moleskin notebooks and writing 'HOLY QUR'AN' on the front cover.

2.  Announce the world's largest Qur'an torch-off, held at, say, Bagram airbase.

3. Wait for the requisite Taliban offensive to mass at the airbase at the date of the torch-off, destroy with B-52 and A-10 attack runs.

4. Reveal the secret (by, say, uploading videos of ANA personnel handling the entirely empty notebooks which are not actually Qur'ans).

5. Mock the Taliban as much as possible.

[RocketMan]

I know you meant that in jest, Micro, but why does it tweak my soundslikefunometer?

[longeyes]

As the man said...the real war hasn't even begun...

This morning Obama told us that 70 per cent of Afghanistan was illiterate and that it was the second poorest nation on earth. Okay.  Then what that tells us is that these people could not possibly be a serious threat to us without the money and arms of other sympathetic nations.  And I think we know who those nations are.  Strangely, though, we don't refer to them as enemies.  Wonder why...

[seeker_two]

What we need to do is this:

1. Order (from a reasonable manufacturer) 50,000 books mocked up to look like the Qur'an, but entirely empty (as in, blank page). Possibly this stage can be achieved by purchasing 50,000 Moleskin notebooks and writing 'HOLY QUR'AN' on the front cover.

Why not make the mock-Korans out of detcord and set proximity fuses?....the video would be awesome.... 

[Regolith]

[MechAg94]

http://somuchpun.com/2010/09/10/funny-puns-terry-jones-was-for-piracy/

[White Horseradish]

If some Muslim fanatics mounted an attack on Fred Phelps and his bunch I think I would buy tickets to see it...

[Angel Eyes]

Adding fuel to the fire (figuratively speaking)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7999250/Australian-lawyer-smokes-pages-of-Bible-and-Koran-asking-Which-is-best.html

Synopsis: can be inferred from the link, but . . . .

Mischievious Australian lawyer tears pages from the Bible, rolls them up and smokes them.  Then does the same with the Qur'an.  Posts video of himself smoking religious texts.

Guess which one generates more outrage.

[sanglant]

of course the religion of turnin' the other dudes cheek.

[zahc]

Nothing political about it, but the Gideon bibles in hotels have nice thin paper that is very useful for this purpose. So I've been told.

[Perd Hapley]

I guess somebody ought to comment on the irony of burning korans at a place called the Dove World Outreach Center.  Nice peaceful outreach to the world, there, Terry. 


And since I'm always so proud when Missouri makes it into the news:

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100911/ARTICLES/100919867/1002?p=all&tc=pgall

Jones said he was born in Cape Girardeau, Mo., in October 1951. He graduated from Central High School there in 1969 -- alongside conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh -- and then went on to study for two years at Southeast Missouri State University.

http://www.journalism.org/index_report/pej_news_index_report_september_612_2010

On his radio program on Sept. 10, Rush Limbaugh, who said he attended high school with Jones but didn’t know him well, dismissed the pastor as “a fringe figure.”

“Nobody would have ever heard of this until the media elevated it,” Limbaugh said.

[taurusowner]

If it incites violence in some Muslims the problem is with....wait for it....with Muslims that think violence is an appropriate response to being offended.  I

Best response ever.

[Perd Hapley]

I just want to say that Terry Jones is pretty weak stuff, compared to my current favorite nutty Christian, William Tapley, the Third Eagle of the Apocalypse, aka the Co-prophet of the End Times. He's not only bleeping insane, but he also brings it to you with proper grammar and spelling.    Not to mention that he has Very Impressive, Bibley-sounding Titles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAFMywH70ow

[AZRedhawk44]

William Tapley, the Third Eagle of the Apocalypse, aka the Co-prophet of the End Times

No doubt Fistful is the other co-prophet and either the First or Second Eagle of the Apocalypse.  Who's the last Eagle?  How does one get an application to become an officially recognized Eagle of the Apocalypse? 

Is there room for a Fourth Eagle?  I think it'd be a great resume tag line. 

[Perd Hapley]

Is there room for a Fourth Eagle?  I think it'd be a great resume tag line. 

Your application is rejected, due to flagitious motives.

[seeker_two]

Your application is rejected, due to flagitious motives.

I thought flagitious motives were a requirement for the position.... 

[zahc]

I still don't understand what the non-book-burning has to do with the free speech OR the first ammendment. It's property rights, and nothing else.

[Perd Hapley]

Concur.

[lee n. field]

I still don't understand what the non-book-burning has to do with the free speech OR the first ammendment. It's property rights, and nothing else.

Rev. Nutball's fortunate he said what he did here in the US.  Elsewhere, as for a not so random example, Canada, someone would have gone whining about their hurt feelings to a human "rights" tribunal, and Rev. Nutball would have been scolded, fined, etc.

(I had a run-in online once with someone who claimed to be a past member of the BC human rights commission.  Wow -- talk about two people's separated by a common language.) 

[Tallpine]

It's property rights, and nothing else.

Need a county burn permit, also 

[AZRedhawk44]

Need a county burn permit, also 

Yes, we must account for the car-bonz!  Pay your car-bonz sin tax!

[Tallpine]

Yes, we must account for the car-bonz!  Pay your car-bonz sin tax!

No, actually it's to keep the local fire dept from being called out on a false alarm, or from being called out for a "controlled" burn that got out of control.