Church plans to burn the Quran on Sept. 11

[zarx]

TheRealMafoo said:

zarx said:

TheRealMafoo said:

Wow, this thread really blew up.

All I wanted to do with it, is show how one side is doing nothing more then hurting peoples feelings, and the other side wants to murder people.

Odd that the side being condemned, is the side that's doing nothing more then hurting peoples feelings.

There is no law against hurting your feelings, and there shouldn't be.

wait how is the mosque killing people? unless you mean the the book burning is killing people? But at the start of the thread you thought that it was cleaver so that doesn't make sense...

Unless you are retroactively changing the point of the thread to be about the reaction of Muslims  to the book burning but you can't do that.

Why I thought it was clever, is we have lost the reason this tension exists in the first place. Yes, there are some who are ignorant and think Muslim = Terrorist. But we have gone so far in this country in the media and government to try and correct that perception, that we are starting to lose the fact that a percentage of Muslims are not peaceful people.

What's clever, is that this Church, though the simple act of offending people, has brought this fact back to the forefront.

There are millions of Muslims that in there perfect world, would see the US and it's 300,000,000 people removed from the face of the earth, and we are talking about them again.

That's what's clever.

PS. Unlike our government, I think it's dangerous for the American people to forget they exist.

Do you really think people forget that Muslim extremists committed acts of terrorism? I mean the reaction to the mosque would suggest that a lot of people remember, and a lot of them let them let that colour their view of the entire faith. 

If reminding people that Muslim extremists committed acts of terrorism was what you found cleaver, wouldn't the mosque be a far better example? Rather than a book burning that only really reminds us that there is a large amount of borderline irrational hate in the USA against Muslims. 

And if reminding people of extreme acts is cleaver, surely that means you think that all acts of terrorism by Muslims are cleaver because they do a much better job of reminding people. Do you see why that is a stupid argument? The book burning is an insensitive act born out of hatred and is in no way cleaver.