Quote Originally Posted by popcornbird

Richard, I wasn't going to answer you, but I can't stand it any longer. Words cannot express how much you anger me sometimes. Do NOT dare bring the Quran in this. Comparing the Quran to flags? Shame on you. There's a major difference between flags and a book people believe to be from God. For Muslims, without the Quran, there is no life. Its more important than oxygen to us. You compare the wrong things. If you want to burn the flag of a Muslim country, big deal. That would hardly offend anyone. Even if it would, certainly not to such an extent. It makes me furious that you would dare mention the Quran in this way. I can't believe I'm responding this nicely when I'm so angry inside. Ugh.
Freedom of speech in the Middle East?

We regularly have people burning flags and books, bibles and churches here in the UNITED STATES. No problem.

Apparently you miss the point. If these protestors have the right to burn Danish, Swiss and any other flags, why not burn a Quran?? I merely pointed out the hypocrisy behind the idea of the self righteousness of the idiots that are fanning the flames of this controversy.

I recognize the poor people used as pawns in the demonstrations and the AHs that are at the head of these countries, laughing at how these cartoons keep the heat off of them-They keep the populace poor, shoeless and illiterate....in order to keep themselves in power...

Hating the Great Satan keeps the people ticked off at them and not us!

You burn the book, not the ideals behind it. Same thing with any paper product.

Asking for Holocaust cartoons really makes sense...


Of course I can burn anything I want. It's my right. Should I be stupid enough to go downtown to a mosque and do it there I am assured that a few people will take exception and I probably will go to jail.

Hypocrisy?

Look it up in the dictionary.

It's people taking the teachings of Muhammed and calling for the infidels to be smitten.

It's an iman, with nothing better to do, advocating death because of a cartoon.

It's the guy from the Council on Muslim Affairs (or somesuch organization) coming on American TV and saying that it is wrong to portray the Prophet in pen......But not acknowledging the hooliganism going on...instead he makes excuses and says that the teachings of Islam are misunderstood.


Just like here in Lost Angeles after the riots in 1994.

People get the kneejerk reaction going and all hell breaks loose.
Burn down your neighborhood, the stores on the corners, burn it all down.

Just like the car fires in France and Germany. Show your discontent by destroying everything around you. Then come back and tell the world that you are mistrusted, misunderstood and not respected.

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When the Holocaust cartoons are printed watch what happens.

Rabbis will shake their heads and wonder. The people who actually suffered during that time will shed a tear and no one will take to the streets to protest in front of any embassy...

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I'll let you in on a secret. If I was stuck on a desert island with a Bible
and no paper to wipe my rear end, using it in that way wouldn't diminish the thought or idea behind it. It's what you believe and what's in your heart.

Not some moron who says, "Boycott, Kill, Protest, Destroy..."

There are plenty of voices like that that rise above the din. It's up to the people at his feet to pull him down and denounce that kind of 'free speech'-until that happens, I do not buy one word of it.

Bruce Hornsby says it best-

"That's just the way it is, Somethings will NEVER change."