Yes. I remember it well. Never Forget!
Posted on 09/08/2010 4:39:30 AM PDT by yokami
Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called a Florida church’s threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks a “disrespectful, disgraceful act.” (Sept. 7 Qur’an burning day to mark the 9/11 attacks says he is determined to go ahead in the face of fierce condemnation from the Obama administration.
What are YOUR thoughts?
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... why?
One nut job in FL (big surprise there...) wants to burn a Koran and the Muslim world explodes; yet the Muslim world has been burning our flag for generations — almost as sacred to Americans as their holy book — and we’re supposed to be okay with that.... These Muslims would make great liberals — no concept of hypocrisy.
I wish this administration would show similar outrage at horrible acts committed by Muslims against people of other faiths.
I say welcome to America - “let ‘em burn”.
Why is he a nutjob?
Folks are free to burn the US Flag, the Bible, etc, etc, etc.
What’s wrong with a little harmless book burning?
Burn an effigy of H! in her witch costume too.
Muslims are free to burn Bibles whenever they want. Perhaps now’s a good time. Boy that’ll show us Christians! Wait! They’d rather slit throats and blow us up. Burning books is sissy stuff to them.
Big outrage from the power elite in Washington. Hillary. State Department spokesman.
No outrage over US military confiscating and destroying bibles in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Big outrage throughout the leftist world over the Danish cartoons.
No outrage over “piss Christ” or “dung Virgin”
I remember 9/11. Anyone else?
Where was this outrage after the Fort Hood massacre? Or the attempted take down of a passenger plane on Christmas?
Duhh, how stupid can we be! We cannot burn the Koran....
Lets dip it in liquid nitrogen and take a hammer to it!
We as Americans have felt helpless, unimportant and voiceless when it comes to expressing our opinion of the elite liberal society, they are climbing all over each other absolutely terrified that our little childish act will upset their alliance with Islam.
I feel strength and this little tingling feeling...
Its not about a church in Florida, its about defiance.
People should at the least go rent a DVD of the movie 300.
Remember the Spartans.
Its a stupid silly stunt that is turning out to be a genius act of courage.
Good question.
Yes. I remember it well. Never Forget!
Islam is evil and the greatest threat to western civilization. The Koran is a blueprint for conquest, intolerance, and enslavement...couched in a divine mandate.
Burning the Koran is appropriate, particularly on the anniversary of 9/11, Islam’s most provocative attack on our way of life.
Yes it endangers our troops, but so did the Abu Ghraid photos. I don’t remember Hillary speaking out against them.
May God grant our soldiers good aim, and plenty of ammo.
Judges 6
31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar.
As for the argument that it endangers our troops, I would suggest that policical correctness endangers them far more. Now many have died in Afghanistan because they can't get fire support if the enemy shoots from anywhere there could possibly be civilians, in the misguided attempt to "win the hearts and minds" of hostile tribesmen? How many died at Fort Hood because the officer corps has been so cowed by PC that they did nothing about an obvious jihadi in their midst out of fear of being labeled anti-Muslim? When the top general in the Army said the next day that the "most important thing" following that shooting was to prevent an "anti-Muslim backlash", not to make sure it never happens again, you knew how far the sickness has gone.
I don’t want to see our troops in any more danger than they already are and I don’t believe that this burning of the Koran will do that any more than burning a copy of “Mein Kampf” or the NAZI flag did in WWII. What does increase the risk for our men is the encouragement given the enemy by announcing the date we will quit and leave.
I don’t think the pastor is a nut job. We are at war with Islam. We should never have allowed immigration into America from Muslim countries. Islam is a Satanic cult that must be exposed. Burning the Koran on 9/11 is a good way to start.
Great post, Hugin!
Here is a fairly decent image of a Koran that may be about right for those that can only download an image to burn.
Hopefully it incites Muslims to act here on American soil so that we can root out the Sleepers. Probably all of them.
Lock and load, light the match. Lets get it on.
Personally, I think there are a lot of Muslims that would leave Islam save for one thought and that is their worry that if Islam becomes a world dominate religion through force by radicals they and their families will be hunted down as aposphates and shown no mercy.
Sort of like belonging to the old Chicago mob; you could never leave it.
“ONE NUT JOB IN FL”
whose intended action has been given all kinds of publicity by the MEDIA... Who would have heard of this free speech action without them? He has a congregation of 50 (FIFTY)!
Probably be 10,000 vids posted on Youtube...
He sure is exposing some hypocrisy, though. And our own government burned Bibles without a peep. People should have been at the state department scraming their heads off.
It’s pointless. It won’t convert a single Muslim. It won’t prevent a single instance of Muslim immigration into the US. It won’t expose a single act of Leftist hypocrisy (claim to support women’s rights while supporting Islamic women’s slavery, eg).
It’s dangerous. US military personnel will die who wouldn’t have otherwise died. Even if it’s only one extra death (and it will probably be more than one) it’s not worth it.
Pointless and dangerous is a bad combination.
Do you want to be the person to explain to the parents of the dead soldier that the reason s/he died is so that this church could engage in a pointless and dangerous exercise?
A small correction, if I may. Comedy Central appears to have done the actual censorship.
Paging captain obvious Mrs. Clinton - that is the intent.
I generally don't agree with burning books, any books. Smacks of wanting to control/limit access to information and ideas.
However, I do fully support liberty and freedom in America. So I celebrate this guy's right to burn 'em. If he's willing to take the heat for it (pardon the pun) fine.
Lets show the world what a free society looks like. Sure, sometimes people are going to do whacked-out things. But the point is, we have the freedom to do (or not do) these things.
Winston Churchill once said something to the effect that if we wish to enjoy the blessings of free speech then we must be prepared to occasionally put up with some foolish speech. Nowhere is that more evident than with this media whore of a ‘preacher’ and his four dozen or so adherents.
If we don’t stand now, When?
They came first for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
Lets draw the line in the sand now with their book of indoctrination. Its garbage. Keep it in the Middle east, but don't bring it here.
Saw a great Flag on the back of a very big biker's leathers a few months back. The text around the flag said "Try burining this one a**hole" Made me smile, the image of some twig-armed "artist" trying to get that 270 lb+ guy's colors...
Its war, our leaders in Washington are too busy to notice that most of America declared war against Islam.
We are fed up and too smart to see what Islam really is, its our enemy.
It is war and this act is a weapon and we will not surrender our weapons.
If this was 1942 Walt Disney would have cartoons of Americans burning the Koran. There were many making a mockery of Hitler and his Mein Kampf.
We are at war with Islam, maybe some people still think they can just kneel down, get their gold and uniform in supplication to Xerxes(Islam) and they will be safe and alive, war will involve death and injuries, reality bites.
What are YOUR thoughts?
Good question.
Here are my thoughts:
1) it will never happen. The local police & fire will be on location & will immediately extinquish any fire set or close to setting that book on fire. Immediately afterwards, he’ll be arrested for risking a catastrophy, inciting a riot & given numerous citations.
This will immediately empower muslims worldwide to celebrate because they’ll look at it as they have won.
My personal feeling is this:
I’d prefer not to stoop down to their level.
Sure I’m fully aware of the bible burnings, stonings, beheadings & slaughter of innocents in the name of their God, but I’m also aware that much the same happened in the Old Testament too.
Is that not why Jesus was sent here to clean up that mess?
Likewise, my other feelings are this as I see things:
Everything Obama touches turns to sheet, & once we pull out of Iraq & Afganistan, that entire region will erupt into absolute chaos.
Things will take care of themselves IMO.
Imam Obama is also a Media Whore. FUNS.
LLS
When we treat that book as sacred it makes it look like we think the book is valid. That only feeds their fanaticism. “See, even the infidels know the koran is the word of god”. Screw it. Every other group can get abused or joked about, muslims are not immune. Welcome to America.
Burn Baby Burn.
The same reason Fred Phelps is a nut job. Having a Church is a great responsibility. You are ambassadors to your community bringing it the Good News of Christ and living as an example. If the message you are relaying is one of hate and intolerance, you are no different than the ministers in the 1950’s who had a KKK robe in the closet at home.
I guess that tells you what I think of him.
an act of isolated extremism
covered ad nauseum by the lamestream media which is fibillating with excitement over possibly causing muslim mayhem
Very productive? It has taken the Ground Zero Mosque off of the front page and let Obama off the hook.
It also turned the latent muslim and quran defenders on this forum to active and open muslim and quran defenders.
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