“However, the hysteria on the part of the establishment in reaction to this upcoming event shows how much they apparently fear the volatility of Islamic extremists. “
This is the most telling point in the article.
Nobody really supports burning a book, even a Koran. But when doing that helps expose extremism throughout the globe, I think it’s a worthwhile thing to do.
This two-bit preacher is about to make a farce of 9 years of government policy. I like that.
If Iraq and Afghanistan erupt in violence as a result, just what have we accomplished there?
This “nobody” preacher is laying bare the carefully woven propaganda of a “religion of peace” from the Bush administration, and the overt Islamophiles in the present administration and media.
If Iraq and Afghanistan are so primitive that they can’t see that if they want to advance past the 3rd world, that you have to let people exercise freedoms that may offend others at times, then that will expose them as the unworthy recipients of US largess - and that they are unworthy of any future efforts.
I hope the preacher follows through. It will recalibrate a lot of attitudes if there is the reaction that our entire government and world media claims there will be.
Well said. The pastor is being asked not to burn the Quran because it may provoke a violent backlash. Is that not the same way Sharia law works? Obey the tenets Islam or there will be violence.