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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[jordan179]

I wasn't making a comparison, I was using allegory. If any Muslims were offended I'm sure they'll show enough self-restraint to not try and murder me, even if the choice of animal wasn't entirely unintentional.

Salman Rushdie was also attempting poetic literary devices, and that did not stop the Iranian government from putting a price on his head. What might have stopped the Iranian government from doing that was tangible measures taken against Iran for this act of war against Britain, but nobody was willing to take such measures at the time.

You are trying to put yourself, psychologically, in a category of "decent and reasonable people" at whom "of course" the Muslims would not take violent offense, while keeping Jones in the category of obnoxious fools who invite physical attack. You don't get it -- the Muslims regard the authority of shari'a as universally paramount, and in Islam there is "no sense of humor," as the Ayatollah Khomeini famously declared.

The thing which protects you against murder by Muslim fanatics for your horrible sin at comparing them to dogs is that, domestically, any such fanatics would be arrested even for conspiring to commit such acts and that, internationally, Muslim regimes fear that if they started sending death squads into America to murder Americans against whom they had taken offense, their own countries would be bombarded and invaded and their leaders finish up swinging from gallows. That is the only thing that keeps your freedom of speech secure -- not their (non-existent) moral sense of self-restraint, but rather their fear of the superior might of Civilization.

If that might declares itself unable or unwilling to protect you, you're SOL.