Kudos to Terry Jones

[jordan179]

Terry Jones finally did burn a Koran, and I am glad of it. In doing so, he confirmed our freedom of speech, as American citizens. And I am pleased to see that others have been following in his footsteps

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[gothelittle]

IF it wasn't for the Muslims threatening violence whenever anyone burns a Koran, THEN I would say that we may have the right to do it, but we shouldn't out of simple respect. I would not favor burning a Book of Mormon, or the Gospel of Thomas, or any of a number of religious books, and I would see tearing out pages you don't agree with or bookmarking it with bacon to be just unnecessary and silly...

EXCEPT for their insistence that we'd better not or they'll punish us. Then it becomes a matter of freedom rather than respect, and I do esteem freedom above respect. Their expressed goal is to subjugate us under their law, which is anathema to everything the United States is, and part of that subjugation is to prevent us from burning the Koran... out of fear if necessary.

I'm the descendant of a bunch of stubborn old New Englanders and a Ukrainian who was an active force for revolution within his society. We don't back down when we've found what we want, just because someone else doesn't like us having it. If you don't bother us, we don't bother you.

[madwriter]

>>EXCEPT for their insistence that we'd better not or they'll punish us.<<

Yeah, this is the sort of thing that makes me stubborn.

But then again, I may not be one to talk. A couple of decades ago I cause a bit of a ruckus after running across some fundamentalist Christians who were burning books "in the name of the Bible", by standing across the street from them and burning some Bibles "in the name of books".