Posted on 06/03/2005 11:15:54 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Something really bothers me about this. They seem to imply that there is some kind of appropriate way to handle the Quran and that in itself is promoting the book. This is the same US Government that promotes the crucifix in urine as art, they shouldn't be promoting Islam this way because of the whole separation of church and state that I've heard so much about.
Yes, the koran is apparently subject to 'appropriate' handling. Unlike every other documented book.
We apparently lost the battle of 9/11, and the entire war.
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I see it as what it is. A book of words. To be sure, those words were meant to subvert an entire culture of people to the whims of a madman, but just a book nonetheless.
Its only symbolism comes from within the one viewing it. I have no reason to desecrate it because it means nothing to me. Those who believe its hatred and lies will do so whether I take out my frustrations on a pile of paper or not.
You say we got to wonder if it is a bad thing to desecrate it. In my opinion, no. But neither is it a good thing. Your viewpoint may be totally different, but that is due to your internal response to the act. It is you, not the book, that gives power to its symbolism.
I'm surprised the Greenpeace crowd aren't getting into this. Flushing something made from a tree--now THAT might get them to speak out against the terrorists.
I'd desecrate a copy of the communist manifesto with less gusto than the koran.
To show proper "solidarity" with the Peace Loving Islamanazis....
We should immediately shoot the Gitmo "detainee" for his act of defiling the Koran...
As a matter of fact -- in order to PROVE our horror that we allowed this act to occur in our prison -- we should shoot every damned detainee in Gitmo... IMMEDIATLY.
Perhaps then, the followers of Islam will know we respect their "culture"...
</ sarcasm> for you folks in Rio Linda.
Semper Fi
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I snipped out the parts that had nothing to do with the title and which were already reported in the AP article earlier, so it would be under 300 words.
And why would I include a paragraph from an entirely different source?
And I put forth that it is that idealogical system, and not the printed media in which it is contained, that is the true source of discontent. Does the act of burning a book unlearn the thoughts that created it? Would Hitler somehow not have risen to power had he simply issued his ideology through speeches and propaganda, and never bound it into Mein Kampf?
Explain to me how the hypothetical act of flushing a Koran down the toilet would make the world safer.
In the grand scheme of things, our few 'desecrations' against their continuing obscene acts of inhumanity, we look good. We allow ourselves to be rolled. A few Qu'Rans getting wet doesn't stand up against hundreds of Bibles confiscated and countless preachers arrested in Saudi Arabia. Tired of seeing us cave in the face of the onslaught.
Flushing a koran makes the world safer in that it exposes the absolute insanity of the followers that they get so worked up over it being flushed.
I get worked up over the Twin Towers being destroyed. People throwing themselves from it by the hundreds, many hundreds inside burning alive. islam's destroyed many thousands of lives in the modern times. Go to ogrish for extreme videos of it.
To desecrate and destroy the idealogy and book that perverts humanity in the way that islam does is a virtue.
"In one incident, on February 23, 2004, the report said a guard saw a "detainee place two Qurans in his toilet and state he no longer cared about the Quran or his religion."
Strong evidence that a restful stay at tropical GITMO can restore one's mental faculties, to rational thinking.
http://www.ogrish.com/archives/2005/april/ogrish-dot-com-helicopter_downed2.wmv
That's islam. So is 9/11.
"However, the report did find four confirmed incidents in which U.S. personnel at the base mishandled the Quran ..."
and then continues for 5 paragraphs about that before getting to the part about the "detainees."
"There are plenty of instances in recent(Salem Witch Trials?) and old history where the Christian Bible was used to justify murder and war. It is still a Holy book just as the Koran is a Holy book"
There it is people. islamic apologism in full form.
Republicans don't even know how to run a gulag right. :)
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