Goodbye to free speech. That’s a western/Christian concept.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vocbu68oKsQ&feature=related
How come they weren’t this obsessed with Rev Wright?
“I hope I don’t have to explain that I am hardly anti-Muslim. I hope, too, that I don’t have to explain that I find Jones objectionable, and I wondered, back eons ago in Instant Media Time (last week) why Newt Gingrich didn’t call him or Sarah Palin tweet him or Rick Lazio issue a press release in which they all said that while they share his compulsion to exploit a fear of Islam, they thought he had gone about his publicity-seeking in the wrong way.”
He must have been out of town when they all did what he says they didn’t.
“Jones is a jerk, a Warholian concoction who used his allotted 15 minutes of fame to trigger concern at home and riots abroad. He is ugly in aspect and message, yet if a line were drawn and I had to choose a side, I would have no choice. I stand with him.”
John Brown was right to oppose slavery, he just went about his opposition in the wrong way when he retaliated for Bleeding Kansas by murdering some pro-slavers.
So, if the analogy to Jones were a good one, Cohen is saying Jones is right to oppose Islam and the Koran, it's just that publicly burning the book is the wrong way to go about that.
I don't think Cohen really meant to say bashing the Koran and Islam or even working for it's abolition is a good thing. Bad, bad analogy.
After he denounced the Soviet Union as an “evil empire”, Richard Cohen wrote a screed calling Reagan a “religious bigot”.