It's a shame because something like that is well within possibility. :/ New CNN Poll: Do you think a church's burning of the Quran could endanger U.S. troops? Yes 83% 218222 No 17% 46057 That makes me sad.
I honestly think it's not just that really, as horrible as those repercussions are. I can see the United States public just having unjustified hate for Muslims. I mean, shit like this is being tolerated. Tolerating is enabling, which will sooner or later garner support and lead to something disastrous.
There are more similarities between the two religions then differences. Obviously this isn't quite clear to them. Oh and on a side-note I didn't realise that there were other followers of Islam on the forum. Makes me feel more comfortable.
I get where you guys are coming from, but honestly if this event actually gets carried out, the repercussion would be far greater than all the things Todd mentioned in his post. You don't have to look farther than the controversy surrounding the cartoon depiction of Prophet Mohammed [PBUH]. Moreover, even the US officials fully understands and pointed out the gravity of the aftermath. But still they refuse to put a stop to it. I personally refuse to believe that only laws and constitutional barriers are holding them back. A lot of things can be evaded through legal loopholes, or whatever you choose to call it in this case. And even if that doesn't work, the sheer severity of the situation should be enough to put a stop to this. True. - Edit: It has indeed been cancelled at the eleventh hour. I still won't edit what I wrote above, because the fact that the event has been cancelled proves that "laws and constitutions" can be bend, if it's for a good purpose.
Link I would NEVER be sarcastic in a thread as serious and heinous as this unless I was directly mocking others.
Religions are like really cool fairy tale stories used to justify and glorify the existence of a higher plane. Take note, I'm not an atheist. I'm just not fond of the strings of religions that dangle in front of our faces in the midst of our time. This burning of the Quran will only cultivate hatred and death. Fuckin' ironic.
Nothing beats showing your hate for a religion quite as well as showing your own religion's capacity for hate.
Bibles burn in Muslim countries. People reactions in Western countries? None. Someone THREATENS to burn a Quran in a Western country. People reactions in Muslim countries? "Death to America", "Love live the Taliban", "This stupid pastor who wants to avenge the September 11 attacks by burning the Koran will not only cause hundreds of bloody attacks in the United States but also throughout the world," the statement said.", "Death to Christians" and alot more. Terry Jones made a point.
Here's the difference. WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE BETTER THAN THIS. We're supposed to be an enlightened country free of such hatred, and now we're stooping to some ridiculously low levels. What you're failing to realize is a very simple point: [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/PT4KI.png[/thumb] The reactions you're seeing is a very small percentage of the Muslim population. Terry Jones made no point except to show that he's a bigot.
It is an overreaction to say the least, but at the same time he makes a rather shaky point because in doing this he isn't a hell of a lot better than those people, and as Minus has pretty much said it's up to people who should probably know better to not stoop to that level as much as anything.
As Minus pointed out, the people who are making such extreme remarks aka extremist are of a very small percentage. I don't get why people still don't realize that. Oh wait... the media keeps painting us with broad strokes of being religious extremists/terrorists. That's why. But that's another discussion for another day. But in my mind it still doesn't change the fact that the act of burning a holy book, of ANY religion, is highly offensive. If "the Western countries" don't care enough to react to Bible burning, then that is their decision. Being a citizen of "an enlightened country" doesn't have anything to do with it. If I were a Christian, I'd naturally take offence to Bible burning.
Sorry if I offended anyone with my post by the way, I'm not a racist or anything. It might appear that my post was an attack on the Islam, while I'm aware that Christianity has God Hate Fags and all that other stuff. I was just a bit biased when I wrote my post.
The way the media portrays the Muslim population would be like if the world assumed all Christians were the Westboro Baptist Church. I never made mention of the bible-burnings in my post because I don't honestly want to get into the subject. The idea of burning religious texts tend to get me into a pissed-off rant mode. It's about 100% of the reason why I tend to stay clear of Serious Chat.
Burning a book is like burning a flag. I could cite a source for the quote but not only will I probably butcher it, it's also a pretty broad observation that most likely quite a few people have stated; "People say, 'I burn your flag' as if it's meant to offend me. Well, no you didn't, that's your flag. You bought it, you burned it, you're burning your own shit." Someone who truly holds their faith dear should be able to look past this material act and shrug it off. However there's the disturbing underlying principal that is very upsetting. I say let them burn the books all they want, with the knowledge or ignorance that it will send certain messages. They think they're speaking against a violent, hateful religion when they may not understand or are more likely simply ignorant to the fact that it just shows how foolish, hypocritical and backwards thinking they are. Rallying to set anything aflame, be it a building, or books, is wildly violent and hateful. Book burning has been around for centuries, is around now, and will be for centuries to come. They'll be burning Kindles and iPads and mass wiping hard drives loaded with PDF's for years. It's rather useless to try and stop or even get offended over. When it becomes a government sponsored act of oppression, by all means rebel and maintain what you stand for. But some shit kicker, Religion-blinded fools in Florida aren't worth it. Numb yourself, it's all you can do.