| TheRealMafoo said: Sorry to keep posting these things, but.... "It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort," Gen. Petraeus said in an interview. "It is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems. Not just here, but everywhere in the world we are engaged with the Islamic community." Is from that article linked above. I am sorry, we really have things backwards here. We have a group of stupid people in Florida, who due to not liking a Mosque going up in NY, chose to burn some books. BFD, no one gets hurt, and some books go poof. Now, in retaliation to this, we think some people around the world are going to take this information, and start killing people with it. So, one group burns books, and one group murders people, and we are apologetic about the morons in Florida? This is like someone sticking there tong out at someone, and getting there face blown off for it, and taking the side of the guy who pulled the trigger. If burning a book makes someone want to kill, I say bring it. |
interesting how they are morons now, you were saying they were cleaver at the start of the thread. And escalation in these matters is inevitable, remember it started with an innocent mosque that was intended to help heal (maybe they should have known it would cause a shit storm but their intentions were good, if misguided IMO) then it was escalated to burning religious texts, that kind of thing is bound to cause offence and will undoubtedly lead to bigger worse acts.
Should they be prohibited by low from doing so? No they shouldn't, but that doesn't mean what they did was smart or justified. It is rude, ignorant and will lead to escalation they were stupid to do it. And no what they did in no way justifies what will be done in "revenge".
And as for "If burning a book makes someone want to kill, I say bring it." I hope you weren't being serious with that statement. Because to invite that kind of thing is just stupid.
Burning a book makes some people want to kill, and that sickens me. But it is not a new thing and there will probably always be people who will, especially as long as religion is involved. Which is one of the many reasons I think religion is wrong. Except for ones like Buddhism you can't argue with that religion.
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