zarx said:
TheRealMafoo said:
sapphi_snake said:
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.
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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.
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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.
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The problem is, the same people who made death threats, want to kill us anyway. Before this man threatened to burn book, they had been left alone by the media. Now we are talking about them again.
In my eyes, the most dangerous thing we can do as a country, is forget they exist. he did a good job of making sure that doesn't happen.
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But wouldn't you say that the mosque issue did that more than the book burning? I mean from my point of view the book burning thing did a better job of reminding Islamic extremists why they hate the USA than it did remind people that there were Islamic extremists.
I mean if there was little to no reaction to the mosque and then this guy did did what he did and then people started trying to stop the mosque I could understand your argument, but as it stands frankly your argument just seems stupid frankly.
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No. Here is my argument.
There are a group of people who follow Islam that are bad. Not all, but some. This center starts to get talked about, and you have some people on one side saying wait a minute, this thing could be being built by the small part of Islam that is bad. The other side is saying that part of Islam doesn't even exist. your making it all up in your head. There is no such thing as radical Islam.
This guy says "oh really? Well, let's see if that's true".
