The problem, Hellions, is that this action could have serious repercussions for our troops overseas. Imagine the Muslim extremist anger at the burning of Korans and who they'll take it out on. It's putting the brave men and women overseas in danger for a stupidly unjustified reason.
I wouldn't say that. It's helped people develop a strong sense of morals and given us art. It's when people take it too far that's the problem.
That's extremely disrespectful. I understand where you're coming from, but please try and be more careful with your wording, 'cause I take offense to that as someone from a religious family.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the intention isn't to be disposing of them, but more over to show religious intolerance of a religion that is taken to be radical when really it's only a very small group of people that are, and that small group cannot represent a religion that is worshipped by 30% of the world. It's lawful, sure, but I'm pretty certain that when they want to burn the Qur'an it's not because they want to dispose of them. They want to send a message. A stupid and close-minded one at that.
Sure. Above all, we're judged for intentions. However, Muslims can take the positives that, this is a lawful way of disposing The Qur'an, money generated from the sales, and awareness raised of The Qur'an. Although, it was cancelled, which is good. But, the event raised some awareness and attracted the right minds to come and see just why certain people wanted to burn The Qur'an, so they decided to read it.
Well, sure there were people saying "burn it", but there were also people thinking "why? Perhaps I should read it." After the Twin Tower attacks were pinned on Muslims, there was an increase of reverts to Islam, in America.
That is sadly true. I think the sooner the media forgives the Muslim culture (not that they need forgiven) the sooner people will stop doing stupid things (burning a bunch of Korans). The action of burning Korans has no meaning and I hope the Muslims are smart enough to see that this event does not represent all of America(which is more than we did for them after 9/11). I think church and state need to be separate, but equally important church and the media need to break up.
Events like this are designed to incite hatred and infuriate Muslims. Then the media will get some minority of Muslims reacting rashly (which isn't always a true reaction) and then label all Muslims in the same boat. And, it's going to get worse, for now.
You should really re-consider your thoughts there. Think about it, killing 3000 innocent people, expressing freedom of speech.
Terrorism is terrorism no matter what form it is. The act of burning the Quran could have had a bigger death toll than 3000 if it had taken place. Many more American's could have been at risk, and it would have been at the fault of the person who started the burning in the first place.
First of all check your definition of terrorism, if burning a flag, book, or image is terrorism to you, well then you may not belong in the discussion. (not trying to be disrespectful, but thats such a far out definition its borders on extremity). Also say you don't like Christianity, you burn a Bible, it offends a local Christian, and they go out and kill 5 innocents. This would not be your fault. A perfect example, someone drew a picture, a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. It sparked outrage in the Muslim world. They rioted, killed, stormed embassies. We cannot make allowances for such barbaric reactions. Freedom of speech, means the freedom to blasphemy, we aren't under sharia or any other religious law. It means the freedom to say or do something that may be offensive.
Either way. Knowing you are doing something that is going to cause a major uprising, that could risk lives, is something that no one should gamble with. The fact that the burning was going to happen, could have risked countless lives, just for the act, no matter how Constitutional it may be. Just because it is our Constitutional right, doesn't make it a conscious one. And if this one small but significant act could have caused lives to be lost, while knowing the consequences, the person who acted may as well have killed them himself.