Koran Burning Hands Terrorists a Potent Propaganda Tool

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You're missing Mr. Battle's point. We know how intolerant Islam is of other religions, particularly Judism. We know muslim women are just below dead camels in the social hierarchy.
Burning the Koran is going to prove what point? That fire is hot? If this act puts our soldiers at risk, which it will, then I'm in favor of turning the dear Reverand over to the taliban in Afghanistan if he burns the Koran. He can sort it out with the Muslims.

Zebra of IL 4:03AM October 06, 2010

The advantage of commenting this far down the line is that I get to synthesize and remark on what has been said.
1. I want to ask what would have been communicated if a Koran had been burned.
2. And secondly, what has been communicated now that it wasn’t burned by Pastor?
It would have shown that Pastor and his congregation had a power over and a contempt for the Koran and the Muslim people. In some circles this is called a “power encounter.” In his mind this would have demonstrated the ascendancy of Christianity and the U.S. bill of rights and the inferiority of Sharia Law and Islam.
The answer to the second question should now be evident. Sharia Law and Islam have won the encounter and Christianity along with the bill of rights has been shown to be weak and morally inferior.
From the Western prospective this might not be obvious. But Islam defined the confrontation in such a way that with either outcome they had a “recruiting tool.”
If the Koran was burned it would be a tool to show that the “infidels” were waging war on Islam.
When it wasn’t burned, it proved the divine favor of Allah and validated the call to “jihad.”
I am not able to comment on the mental acuity of Pastor, but I’m sure he had no idea that this would garner such attention. I do think that he was used as a dupe. My proof? This past week in East Lansing, Michigan a Koran was burnt and thrown into the yard of an Islamic center. Where is the worldwide Muslim outrage? It doesn’t suit their purposes. For the moment they have gained what they want. They caused the “Great Satan” to back down. This coup will be exploited, have no doubt.
In my years of living in a predominantly Islamic country in West Africa, I have seen that a “radical Islamist” is easily created from “nominal Muslims” through intimidation. Even the most casual practitioner becomes violent when threatened in some way by the a radical Muslim extremists promising to harm them or their families.
However, take a Christian acting radically and the casual practitioner of Christianity will turn on him and eat him for lunch.

Joe Eger of MI 11:13AM September 18, 2010

In 2001 Muslims dynamited the 2000 year old Buddha statues of Bamiyan in Afghanistan and destroyed almost everything in the National Museum in Kabul that stemmed from the country's Buddhist days because the Koran said it was non-Islamic. For this act alone, their stupid book should be burned.

Mary of DC 6:20AM September 10, 2010

They need no excuse , the radical muslims need no reason , they hate us , they want to kill us or convert us , plain and simple .
I'm about sick and tired of hearing , we are not tolerent as a nation , the most tolerent and ass kissing nation in the world , and we are not tolerent , please !!
We're told this by people that bury women up to their waist in sand and stone them to death , people that won't educate women , people that won't allow non muslims into Mecca or Medina , people that will hide behind women and children and use them as bombers , the list can go on . We are preached to by most intolerent , guttless people on the planet about not being tolerent , kiss my A-- .
We can burn the American flag , we can burn the bible , we can protest at soldiers funerals , we can crosses in bottles of urine , but DON'T offend the Muslims . Don't oppose the mosque , don't write a cartoon , don't write a book or will be threatened with beheading or more attacks . WHO'S THE INTOLERENT ONES ????

Hunter of WI 9:06PM September 09, 2010

Saudi Arabia did not want America’s fighters to show America’s flag on their uniforms. Bush said Hell-O.
Would barry comply with covering the flag ???
Senator Boxer has loss another assistant. First due to child porn. Recent one possession of marijuana.

Bill Hedges of MO 6:41PM September 09, 2010

ROYT OF TX......I AGREE WITH YOU 100%!!!! IT'S ABOUT TIME THAT THESE SAVAGES WERE TOLD THAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO PUT UP WITH THEIR
S*** ANYMORE, AND THIS IS A GOOD WAY OF DOING THAT!!!!!

KRASHKOWALSKI of NY 2:02PM September 09, 2010

regardless of whether we think the pastor is a lunatic or drama queen is irrelevant. as long as our own courts have decided that it is "protected free speech" to burn the american flag then we must realize that he has a legal right to burn korans. my hope is that his actions will incite the muslin world into more extreme acts of violence and show the world the true nature of islam. i invite anyone who falls for the pollitically correct myth that islam is a religion of peace to go out and buy a copy of the koran, read it and then see if you still believe that nonsense.

loyd garcia of CO 2:01PM September 09, 2010

"Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday.
. . . .
"Military officers considered sending the Bibles back to the church, he said, but they worried the church would turn around and send them to another organization in Afghanistan -- giving the impression that they had been distributed by the U.S. government.
"That could lead to violence against troops or U.S. civilians, Wright said."
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/20/us.military.bibles.burned

Samuel Dijk of TX 1:24PM September 09, 2010

Sure, it may be inflammatory (literally/figuratively). But to see America's top warrior general and our very own President quivering in fear because someone burned a holy book is beyond pathetic. They make the entire nation look like like bed wetting, pansies. Perhaps we should remove the don't ask, don't tell military policy, considering our heterosexual warriors are just as weak.
Where are America's great leaders? Where are the Washingtons, Lincolns, Roosevelts? Are all our great miltary generals only found in the dusty archives of America's history? Where are the George Pattons, Stonewall Jacksons, Joshua Chamberlains, George Meades, James Longstreets, William Westmorelands, Norman Schwarzkopfs?
Do we really care what a rabble group of third world agrarian peasants think? Joe Private manning an M249 light machine gun on the front line in Afghanistan doesn't care, he's still going to shoot the guy wearing a rob and carrying an AK-47 regardless.

david of ID 1:12PM September 09, 2010

Chris,
I too went to UF (go gators!). and it's the whining little puzzies like you that i used to beat up after a night at CJ's.
Pastor nutjob has every right to burn the evil book. and self-hating wussies like you will have to learn to accept it. Look, just read the reaction to all of this from the monkey-world called islam... "It will cause rage, killing of americans every"... blah bla blah.
these people are animals and are going to have to learn to deal with the fact that we aren't going to bend over to assuage their tender sensibilities any longer.
f--- them. and f--- all the weaklings who are terrified of them.

RoyT of TX 12:48PM September 09, 2010