Are Christians and North American's cowards?

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Joelcool7 said:

Galaki said:

@OP, in short

Two wrongs does not make a right.

Your absolutly right, I personaly would never burn someones holy book or poke fun at a religious prophet. But I believe in free speach and freedom of religion as such I think North American's should stand behind those rights. If South Park wants to depict Mohammed then they should do so, if some whack job wants to burn a Quran well I won't stop him.

Also protesting isn't a wrong. I think their should be huge protests every time a large quantity of religious texts are burnt. Bibles and other holy texts are burnt all the time and nobody does anything.

I agree right now with the protests with the ground zero because it is religious bias towards Muslims. A Christian church wants to rebuild and is being stopped so that the Muslim Mosque can be built instead. Why is the Christian church being stopped? Because people are being cowards they want to make muslims feel more at home and less offended while treating the Christian's as second class citizens. I wouldn't mind if the church and Mosque were both being built but the second special treatment is given to one religion over another that deserves a protest.

As for the Quran burning, heck I have met Christians persecuted by Muslims in Africa. I have read stories of Christians being forced at gun point to spit on the Bible and piles of Bibles being burnt by Al-Shabab and the Taliban. So when a mad angry person decides to burn a Quran I don't really think he should be stopped.

 

Now I don't think we should be mean to Muslim's, I don't think we should burn anyones holy book. But the freedom to do so and the freedom of Speech should be protected.

But everyones too scared to speak their mind. Were all thinking it but the second someone says anything they are met with death threats and intimidation.

Plus say the burning went forward on Sept 11th, it would send a strong message to the Muslim world that terrorism will only lead to more hatred and bigotry.

Here in Canada a few newspapers were going to print the danish cartoons but death threats were sent out and all of them retracted the cartoons. Same happened to South Park it seems that nobody can critisize Islam without being targetted.

I think if somebody actually does defy Islam its good somebody should I may not agree with their methods but its good to see someone sticking up for the morals are countries are based on, anyone willing to face death to speak out is amazing.

Example the pastor if he burns those texts will likely be dead in about a year, it takes alot to stick up for our freedoms when facing death.

First of all not all muslims are terrorists, nor do most muslims support terrorists. So the majority of muslims would simply be insulted, and those who are terrorists will recieve further justification of their hatred for the US and Christians and will probably be able to recruit more people 'cause of it.

Also, about the "cowardly" thing, since when is it "cowardly" to take the high road and be civilised? The only instances I'd call Wsterners cowardly is when they don't speak up about things like muslim men beating their wives, or muslim women refusing to not wear their burkhas in inappropriate situations. I certainly see nothing brave about some nut jobs who want to burn the Qu'ran (at least the cartoons were for comedy).