Posted on 09/09/2010 10:36:31 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
In the column, I suggest we can assess the silliness of the rationalizations of the Ground Zero mosque by applying them to Pastor Terry Jones’s similarly provocative Koran-burning escapade — entirely legal, but a gratuitously offensive thing to do.
But that doesn’t begin to cover how vapid the commentary continues to be, particularly from the commander-in-chief — as President Obama took pains to remind us he is in an interview by George Stephanopoulos this morning.
According to Obama, Jones’s “stunt” (a fair description) is already “a recruitment bonanza for al Qaeda.” That’s absurd. No sensible person joins a terrorist organization dedicated to mass-murdering human beings because somebody torches a Koran.
If the president, who is principally responsible for American national security, actually believes what he says, what is his excuse for not confronting Islamic regimes? Not looney-tunes pastors with followings smaller than the First Lady’s traveling caravan; Islamic governments that confiscate and destroy bibles, crucifixes, Stars of David, and other articles of profound religious substance and symbolism to non-Muslims. That goes on, systematically, every single day — although not as often as you’d imagine because Islamic societies are so innately intolerant that there aren’t a lot of non-Muslim religious items to be found in, say, Saudi Arabia.
Jones is going to burn a Koran; sharia states kill human beings who renounce Islam. Does the president have an explanation for why Christians and Jews are not forming terror cells with the bonanzas of recruits that must be forming up on a daily basis given the sorts of “stunts” that, in Saudi Arabia, are known as law-enforcement?
Terry Jones is a jackass. I wish Americans would trip over themselves with a fraction of the zeal on display here to condemn the torching of the American flag — a symbol of freedom and sacrifice. But that’s beside the point. Burning a book sacred to Muslims is a stupid, provocative thing to do. Yet, it is conscious avoidance — okay, willful blindness — to claim that he is causing the threat to our troops, in addition to the threat of other attacks and rioting by Muslims (of the sort we’ve seen with the Danish cartoons, the false claims of Koran-flushing at Gitmo, the school teacher who named the teddy-bear Mohammed, etc.).
Those are all pretexts. The cause is Islamist ideology, which is dehumanizing of non-Muslims (or, in the case of the Ahmadi, even of Muslims who reject core parts of Islamic doctrine). It is the ideology that puts the world’s Muslims on a hair-trigger.
What Jones is doing is a desecration, not a national security threat. It merits being derided, as any desecration does. And it may indeed provoke a spike in the violence that will go, spike or no spike. But the national security problem is not Koran burning. It is a civilization indoctrinated by an ideology ever on the prowl for any excuse, real or imagined, to make mayhem. Wouldn’t it be nice if, while they publicly chide an American citizen for striking the match, our public officials took the occasion to chide the culture that turns its societies into dynamite?
It is. It's second rate and acutely aware of it, hence can abide no competition.
Excellent observations by Andy McCarthy in the National Review on the Florida ‘pastor’ (Terry Jones) Koran-burning show. This cult-like ‘pastor’ must be in publicity heaven, with everyone in America, including the president, howling about his plan to burn Korans. I agree with McCarthy that although Terry Jones is an idiot, the rank hypocrisy from the left when they try to defend the building of the Ground Zero mosque or Obama’s dangerously feeble reactions to a near-nuclear Iraq while claiming that this Koran-burning performance is a jihadist recruiting ‘tool’ are currently on full display for all to see - and America is watching.
We had elections during the Civil War. Burning some book should have no effect.
We didn't have a man in the White House who needed a reason to stop the elections. And it isn't the actual burning of a book, but the way the media and the Obama administration are using the subject.
I believe there is a concerted effort by the left to either provoke or lie about violence on the part of the conservatives over this issue. Your hat may disagree.
THANK YOU. Honestly, Obama’s smarmy entrance into this non-issue REALLY makes me want to burn a Koran. Where is his outrage about the GZmosque? etc.
Plus, they are already burning flags, even before 9/11 and the Pastor’s Planned Burning. Because ‘now we are going to have (yet) another temper tantrum. And it is your fault.’
Such babies.
everybody should threaten to burn a koran unless obama releases his long form birth certificate!
that’ll put barry in a pickle! and make him look like an idiot!
Actually, Jones hopes/hoped to burn a pile of them, but other than that, yours is a point well-taken.
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