Thursday, April 07, 2011

Blasphemy and the First Amendment

You have to be a bit game to burn a Koran but as long as he owns it an American is entitled to burn any book he likes.
"A small time preacher from a tiny American church finally made good on his attention seeking threat to burn a copy of the Holy Book of a rival religion.

When news of this blasphemous insult reached the ears of rival followers overseas, they went out in a rampage, murdering 21 foreigners, and injuring 80 others so far, who had absolutely nothing to do with it. ...

The pastor claims that the murderers are responsible for the killings; all he did was express his religious opinion in America. I have to admit, as much as I can’t stand book burners, he’s right."

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20 comments:

sig said...

This is just an illustration of how radical and intolerant Islam really is. But if you think this is bad, just wait until Sharia Law becomes accepted in the United States. Then you will really have something to fear.

Anonymous said...

Not just the "inflammatory" act of burning a book but just drawing cartoons in Denmark can "ignite" a wave of riots, arson and killings across the Middle East.

Anonymous said...

If burning the American flag has been found to be protected, (and it has) then "anything" can be burned! When the time comes that some in America (usually the Left) will go out of their way to protect Islam, (and it's already started) then it's time to take to the streets and show the govt. how many guns we really have and that we really know how to use them.

Anonymous said...

When i first heard about the violence associated with this i couldn't believe it. As a christian if someone were to burn bible i would
not like it, but to go to these extremes is defeating. Any religion that sanctions this type of behavior is destructive to society, be it the burning or the murders. But as far as i have heard there is only condemnation from everyone.

Anonymous said...

We need a, BURN THE KORAN DAY OF RAGE, here in America. We better make s stand before its to late. Stormewaters

Spurwing Plover said...

How about burning a copy of THE ORIGION OF THE SPECIES by CHARLES DARWIN and THE GOD DELUSION by RICHARD DAWKINS

www.obamaisnotmyprsident.com said...

Plover, now your just being intolerant!

//sarc off

Anonymous said...

Soon they will pass a law that makes it illegal to do so (burnt he Koran), under the same grounds that you cannot burn a cross or hang a noose off the back of your pickup truck. Someone tell me again who is fighting for freedom? Who’s freedom?

Stucco Holmes said...

"How about burning a copy of THE ORIGION OF THE SPECIES by CHARLES DARWIN and THE GOD DELUSION by RICHARD DAWKINS"

Knock your self out, birdbrain. Maybe your feathers will catch fire. BTW, be sure to buy own copies to burn.

TheOldMan said...

The reason Christians don't go apeshit when someone burns a Bible or suspends a crucifix upside-down in a bottle of urine is that they understand that these are just obects, they are not their actual God. They may find it sad that something thinks this is art but that's about it. I feel the same about someone burning an American flag. It's their property so go to it. I think it makes them look like a fool. This is a sign of maturity. Mooselimbs OTOH are infantile.

Anonymous said...

I just downloaded a PDF of the Koran and deleted it.

sig said...

"I just downloaded a PDF of the Koran and deleted it."

Ha! You just made my day!

Anonymous said...

Don't burn it . Deep fry it in lard.

Spurwing Plover said...

Becuase darwins books is the cuase of racsism and other problems stucco buster dont annoy be

Anonymous said...

"The American system is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. A democracy, if you attach meaning to terms, is a system of unlimited majority rule; the classic example is ancient Athens. And the symbol of it is the fate of Socrates, who was put to death legally, because the majority didn’t like what he was saying, although he had initiated no force and had violated no one’s rights.

Democracy, in short, is a form of collectivism, which denies individual rights: the majority can do whatever it wants with no restrictions. In principle, the democratic government is all-powerful.

Democracy is a totalitarian manifestation; it is not a form of freedom...
"
(Leonard Peikoff)

Anonymous said...

If I saw someone burning the holy Qu'ran I'd put the fire out.................................By pissing on the thing!

sig said...

"Don't burn it . Deep fry it in lard."

Pig fat works much better.

Anonymous said...

Bird-brain Plover doesn't believe in evolution coz his particular avian species is unfit to survive due to mental retardation!

Anonymous said...

'Religion of peace' is like Orwell's 'Ministry of Love'

Anonymous said...

If you make anything except explicit threats illegal , you are risking your future freedom.