Church plans to burn the Quran on Sept. 11

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TheRealMafoo said:

sapphi_snake said:

Were people actually people discussing making Qu'ran burning illegal??? I though the point of this thread was to discuss whether this gesture is counter-productive or not.

Yea, someone was equating burning the books to that of looking at child porn. It's how we got on these weird tangent.

As for being counter-productive, depends on the mans goal. For his goal, I think he has been extremely productive.

If I had to guess what's running though his head, it would be that he links terrorist attacks to Islam. He feels the government has been doing an effective job at removing that link.

He has done an outstanding job of undermining that. It would have been counter-productive, if he burned the books, and no one cared. Then he would have proved Washington's point.

If I propose something like "International Burn the Bible Day, starts December 25 @ 00:00 AM" I can assure you I'll get at least a couple of death threats. Heck, John Lennon was killed by a Christian guy because he insulted Christianity in an interview (and I don't remember the press calling that guy a Christian terrorist).

I don't really think anyone's surprised that this pastor guy got death threats. When you insult a religion (any religion), especially one where most of it's beleivers live in countries that might as well be in the Middle Ages from a cultural POV, the fact that peopel make threats on your life shouldn't be a surprise.