It is, of course a highly disrespectful act. It is discourteous. It is even a hostile act. But hey, so are murder and war.
But as the Bible tells us (in Ecc 3:1), "All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven."
It really seems to have a big effect on some Muslims, when one guy on the far side of the world burns a Koran. How many people have they killed? 20?
What if we turn the tables? Instead of them killing people in reaction to a Koran being burned, what if we were to tell them that we will burn Korans until the killing stops?
When they kill people, somehow it gets blamed on a guy in Florida who wasn't anywhere near the killing. It's a childish sort of "see what you made me do?" defense. Well, if those are the rules of the game, let's play by them. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
We could put a weregild on every American killed by a Muslim. We'll burn three Korans for every enlisted man they kill, five for every officer, and ten for every civilian. And until they stop killing each other, we'll burn one every day.
They claim to care about the burning of a Koran. They claim it's important to them. They're willing to kill to avenge the burning of a Koran. But what will those people do to prevent Korans from being burned? Could it be possible that they might be constrained to stop killing out of respect for their holy book, which they believe was written by Allah?
Or is it possible that they'll use any excuse to kill, and any little thing at all will do as provocation, so that they can shift the blame for their wanton killing onto someone else?
To ask the question is to answer it.
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Even if concerned Americans burn just a Koran each, that will be a dramatic statement and a way to register our outrage for the deaths and persecution that Islam brings to non-Muslims.
Since the impact comes from the publicity, we'll need a website to post it on because YouTube or Facebook might censor it.
http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2011/04/quran-selections-read-and-expunged-with.html shows Ann burning selected pages as she reads them out. She makes a convincing and inspiring case - just like yourself.
I'm not sure if Paul's post is a "gee, what if..." thing, but either way, the flaw is that he assumes radical Muslims will act collectively. They don't, and they won't.
We're talking about tribes, individuals, and disparate terrorist cells--not a "religion" with newsletters, weekly Bible studies, and email lists.
When you lump "them" together like that, you offend and very likely incite non-radical Muslims, who make up the overwhelming majority of Islam. One might expect such a brash, almost satirical proposal in an episode of South Park, but certainly not in reasonable foreign policy.
Anonymous, you seem to be presuming that "non-radical" Muslims would take greater offense at the suggestion of Koran burnings than they do at actual killings being done in the name of their religion.
If that's so, then in what sense are they "non-radical"?
Are you suggesting most Muslims aren't offended by the killing of innocents, or even tacitly approve of it?
I'm suggesting nothing. I'm saying outright that I haven't heard from them on the topic.
And, as I have said on this blog for years, I would very much like to hear from them.
Is my having deleted or overwritten the copy that I had on my computer as bad?
Or, the drive that I took apart to make wind chimes from the platters?
If my God wants someone popped for something, he doesn't need some piss ant to do it for him.
^ What?
Could that possibly because Muslims represent a very small minority in the US, and mainly want to be left alone?
But perhaps you're right. Let's play guilt by association and ask every Muslim to apologize for what other Muslims do. Then we can ask every Christian to apologize for what other Christians do, and so on.
By the way, I haven't heard many white people apologize for the Apartheid lately. I'd like to hear from them.
I'm not asking for an apology. I want to hear them calling on their co-religionists to knock off the violence.
Or do you think that's unreasonable of me? Aren't they, by far, the majority?
This sort of reminds me of something I'd read once about Israel packing pork fat in void spaces on buses to deter suicide bombers from blowing themselves up on them. This very well could be some sort of urban legend, but it got me thinking...
Just how devout *are* these nimrods? Could something so simple work? My understanding is that pork or pork derivatives are so halal that if a muslim even touches it-- even in death-- he's doomed to whatever hell exists in islam.
Why not have pork fat shipped by the ton to servicemen in theater? If this idea is true, I'd use it as mortar between sandbags and as the oil in road paving materials.
Meant to say "non-halal" in the post above.
You, sir are brilliant! Where do I submit your name for the Nobel Peace Prize? I'm serious! The only other way I can think of to deal with the muslim problem is if Christians would share the Gospel with them. In the mid-East, they're getting saved in huge numbers, but former muslims are the ones introducing them to Jesus.
I don't quite understand Anonymous' point. The Koran is evil, not necessarily individual muslims. It teaches them to kill Jews, Christians and all those who refuse to convert to islam and to strive to take over the world by jihad (stealth and/or violent) then implement sharia law. It tells them to consider us pigs and apes, and that it's okay to lie to us to further islam. For instance, if you asked them if the above sentences are true, they'd deny it and show you peaceful verses in the Koran. The truth is that the peaceful verses were made null and void by the later violent verses. So actually, there's really no such thing as a peaceful muslim. They're all like dormant volcanoes. I suggest you actually read a Koran or visit a mosque.
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