Burning a Koran: Right or Wrong?

[roberth]

General Petraeus is doing the PC thing which I expect him to do, Petraeus is doing the bidding of his boss.

The Florida preacher is not wrong, stupid yes, but he isn't wrong. I'm stupid too though, the only reason I haven't bought and burned a koran is because I'd rather spend my money and time on other things.

Muslims will take any excuse to end a life they disagree with. Generally speaking all Muslims support these murders through their silence.

[Monky]

I certainly hope this idiot isn't going to get tax payer funded security now..

If he can't deal with his own actions when he was warned LAST YEAR when he tried this same shit..then we certainly don't need to foot the bill for his protection.

[Bailey Guns]

Generally speaking all Muslims support these murders through their silence.

Yep...agreed. Which makes it harder for me to be "tolerant" of their religion.

[roberth]

Yep...agreed. Which makes it harder for me to be "tolerant" of their religion.

Exactly.

Funny thing about tolerance, it has an end point where folks just won't put up with the baloney any more. We're getting a little closer to that end point every time a Muslim murders someone in the name of their POS religion.

Sidebar - a 14 year old girl was murdered in Bangladesh after being accused of adultery. This is the Muslim mindset, maybe not American Muslims but they still support it through their silence.

http://www.islam-watch.org/index.php...stom&Itemid=58

[Bailey Guns]

"Every day on television we are barraged by stories of a 'Muslim extremist, militant, terrorist, or insurgent. But the stories that are missing are the countless stories of Muslim tolerance, progress, diversity, service and excellence that Bridges TV hopes to tell."

...said Muzzammil Hassan, a few years before beheading his wife in NY because she filed for divorce after years of abuse.

[DeusExMachina]

It is a right, but it is still wrong.

[TFOGGER]

It is a right, but it is still wrong.

+1

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

I am not a religious person, but I am a spiritual one, if you know what I mean. If someone wants to believe that their navel is the source of the universe, I will respect that...right up to the point that they try to convince ME to worship their belly button...

[ghettodub]

Yep...agreed. Which makes it harder for me to be "tolerant" of their religion.

I agree with you there. I'm having a much harder time being tolerant as well...

[FL410]

We are in a weird time in history where our National policy is no longer to kill our enemies and destroy their will to fight.

It is to to win their hearts and minds.

We learned the wrong lessons from the Marshal plan after WWII.

A lot of todays military doctrine was also developed by British and French occupational forces as they colonized the third world.

The main problem is that the Mission is not really defined:

Are we in AFG/IRQ to colonize them for the long term?

Are we there to reform them in our image?

Are we there to punish them?

Personally speaking, I think we should wage War as we did in WWII, then Maybe offer the survivors the chance to be Westernized. Actions that inflame the radicals would be beneficial for smoking them out.

Bloodthirsty killers from our history like Lemay, Sherman, or Patton would have wrapped this thing up years ago.

[bellavite1]

All religious extremes are bad.
This war is not a crousade, it is not about religion, at least not from our side.
If the preacher has enough balls he should go to Afghanistan and burn the Koran there.
He "shows" his balls here where it is warm and cozy and someone else has to deal with a bunch of raghead fanatics in Afghanistan and pick up the pieces...
Not cool.