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This is a really fantastic post.

I liked this bit a lot:

“But who knows better what Islam really represents, Faisal Shahzad or Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum? Clearly Miriam thinks she knows better, as Time Magazine and Newsweek and the New York Times insist that they know Islam, better than the Muslims who keep misunderstanding what Islam really is.”

I agree with epic stache on this issue.

If we want to preserve our rights for now and future generations, we need to draw teach the muslims that their ideas of how we should live are irrelevant. Although it seems silly, We need to burn the Korans, just to make a point.

You wrote: “Although I would never burn a book of any religious significance, I will say that the pastor in this case should not have backed down from burning the korans once he felt political pressure. No one will take him seriously again.”

Basically, we as a society have to burn the Korans now, due to the phenomenon that you mentioned. The issue transcends Terry Jones. If we don’t the jihadis figure we are weak and can be pushed around. The fact that so many of our own attacked Terry tells the jihadis that they’ve practically won, so they just need to keep up the pressure a little longer.

My understanding: we’d be better off if every year, a bunch of people burned Korans - on “Worldwide Burn a Koran Day”. And if every year, our government reaffirmed that because of the First Amendment, it can’t do anything. At least then, it would be on record that we’ve still got our rights.

What we don’t want is to wind up with the liberals convining people that unpopular things are illegal to do, and that the constitution is somehow not operative when things are unpopular enough. If that comes to pass, we’ve lost our rights for good - because the liberals determine what’s unpopular via the media.

3rdcoastislander: “Burning the koran will not solve anything, it is a waste of time and lighter fluid. Sure it may piss some muslims off but the ones that want us dead decided that a long time ago. Our time would be better spent educating everyone we know about how tyranny follows Sharia law where ever it plants itself.”

If nothing else, September 11 is going to roll around again. Some people are going to call it Worldwide Burn a Koran Day, and they will burn a bunch of Korans.

It is important when that happens, freedom-loving people assert that the people who are lawfully burning their Korans have that right. If we don’t do that, we are all worse off, because we’ve lost our freedom of speech.

It is important that we present a united front to those who would take away our rights.

Once we lose our freedom of speech, we’ve lost it permanently. There’s just no reason to give up our freedoms. People in Pakistan don’t like what we’re doing? So what. There is no reason for us to give up our hard won rights.