Koran Burning?

Pastor Terry Jones - aside from the epic facial hair and the fact that he has a name to share with the legendary Monty Python comedian, what has he done with his life?

Spread hatred and bad feeling amongst the many followers of Islam over the past week. He's arranged a public Koran burning at his church in Florida, because obviously, this book is full of evil and as a result, burning a few copies will completely prevent the world from using this text, as "we cannot give in to these who burn effigies."

Well, I've found a good book and I decided to review this as well. Should be good for a few laughs.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Religion
• Rant
• Islam
• Koran
• Shogun
• Comedy
• Sarcasm

[LostChances]

Got to love the irony where he wants to burn the Qu'ran because it has caused the death of innocent people (9/11), despite the Christian Bible causing a nice collection of deaths (Christian Crusades), including innocent lives (witch burnings). Does it mean religion is evil? No. Does it mean religion is used as justification of wars? I'd say so. Find a war with religious reasons and you'll usually find a more plausible and logical reason why it happened.

[Coop83]

@LostChances Yeah, that's generally the way with the world - people try to blame something else, or some "higher power" rather than facing up to the fact that it might actually be their fault.

[LostChances]

@Coop83 Honestly, it's sad when instead of using mistakes of the past (school shootings for example) to improve the present (more awareness on depression and homicidal behaviour in schools), we're more content to blame something that can't fight back personally but needs other people to defend it (video games being the classic example). It's non-constructive almost to a destructive point. I've never fully understood the anti-gaming debate, but then again I may be bias, haha.

[Coop83]

@LostChances This man is clearly an individual with a degree of intelligence - he can come to terms with the fact that burning a load of Korans on the 9th anniversary of the attacks on the WTC is going to incite hatred, so he postpones it.

To only postpone though doesn't solve the problem, it merely delays it. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, the Muslims are incited there and they join the insurgency against British and American troops, that bear the brunt of this madness.

[LostChances]

@Coop83 I think, in a way, he doesn't care that British and American troops will get most of the punishment. I think he's one of those people who actually think that Muslims are better off dead than allies or even as a neutral party.

However, I think he's intelligent enough to realise that basically no one is supporting him. In fact, basically everyone hates him except, apparently , the Westboro Baptist Church. Which that says a lot. I think he's cancelled it because he's infamous.