No. My response is to refuse to follow Islam’s rules, and oppose any effort to grant them “special snowflake” status. I won’t be burning any books this weekend.
It is written that thou mayest watch the inferior football played by lesser conferences, but only to the extent that it heightens your appreciate of the sublime righteousness of all things SEC, and only so long as such inferior football is not shown at the same time as the Divine SEC Football. So sayeth the Prophet. So sayeth we all.
Social sabotage should be left in the hands of trained professionals who understand that, if you can get your opponent to do most of your work for you, retaliation is next to impossible.
Who’s telling you to follow Islam’s rules or to give it any more respect than any other religion?
99% of the time when books are burned, it’s a statement of intent/sympathy to censor; this is probably why it seems more anti-american than, say, burning a bra. Censorship is kind of a big deal in these parts.
Though Diogenes the Cynic is right; this isn’t that kind of book burning. It’s just some overzealous christians lowering themselves to the level of muslims that burn flags; purely and strictly a protest with none of the usual censorship overtones. And actually, I think it may have been the first example of ‘protest’ book burning that didn’t have censorship overtones that I’ve heard of, come to think of it.
I hope this is exempt from Godwin’s law because of the topic, but in all honesty the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this article was that when there were massive burnings of holy books back in the late 30’s it didn’t turn out well for anybody.
On another note I love this quote from one of the articles:
Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe called the church “an embarrassment to our community”
Ouch. :eek:
But you’ll happily state “fuck em”, and then go down a little list of all those things you think are worthy of a hearty “fuck”-ing. Your response is most certainly to treat Islam as having special snowflake status - just the other way, by insulting and offending beyond the norm. And by congratulating such ideas as being because Muslims need to have these ideas “clubbed over the head” with. If I recall correctly, you were one of the happy signers-up to the “draw Mohammed” day a while back (in fact, I went and had a look, and you were, with a little joke about drawing him fellating goats). Your response to being offended is to go out and cause offense. Your response to offensive ideas of greater severity (to which your complaint is not the poorness of the idea, but the tackiness of the idea) is to defend the notion, as if anyone here had brought up the idea that doing so was somehow not a right or not lawful over there.
I refuse to follow Islam’s rules, by, well, simply not following the rules. As an added bonus, I don’t cause offense which is likely to create even more offense in those who appear to be already pretty pissed, or those who aren’t but who might well look at a plan for a group Koran burning, and look at those defending the idea, and think there might just well be something in all that hate.
Who are they, where are they, when was this picture taken, and what did the Fantastic Four do when they arrived?
I thought I saw that same picture a few months ago, except the signs said things about Obama and healthcare. Are you sure that wasn’t photoshopped?
When Christians (Jews, Wiccans, Atheists, Druids, Satanists, Whatever) start having massive protests calling for all that insult their religion to be beheaded, like those charming folks in the picture I linked, then I’ll be all for giving them a hearty fucking too.
But I don’t see that. I only see muslims calling for everyone in the free world to follow their rules, or be put to death. So today, I’m only heartily fucking muslims. Someone else will likely be on my shitlist tomorrow.
Well, the file is named Danish Cartoon Protest, so, I’m guessing it’s probably in…in…in…well, Ulan Bator, obviously. That’s just a guess, however…
-XT
[Withdrawn as duplicative.]
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C’mon. Neither of you is seriously gonna argue the protests I’m referencing didn’t happen. I googled “muslim cartoon protests” and that was one of the hits. I do not know when or where the picture was taken. I do not know if the picture was for those protests, or other ones. I do know, and so do you, that muslims often protest in revoltingly large numbers whenever somebody gores one of their sacred cows. They march, they chant death to America, and they call for any that insult Islam to be put to death.
Your point is illogical. You draw a distinction between Muslims and other religious groups, but fail to draw a distinction between Muslims in general and radical Muslims, or Muslims who call for everyone in the free world to follow their rules or be put to death. Your response is not to say “fuck those specific Muslims, those ones doing that” but “fuck Muslims, fuck their god (who doesn’t exist), fuck their holiest books and religious figures”. Your point about only putting blame where blame lies would be much better taken if you hadn’t insulted pretty much all people and everything important to do with Islam.
Looks like those pictures were taken in London, and they aren’t recent. From here.
(Not that it really matters, but I was curious)
-XT
Well, what if they called not for a beheading, but for “club[bing] over the head”? OK then?
So these anonymous people, doing who knows what, who knows where and who knows why, are the reason for your firm stand on this issue? Really?
Would you like to call a mulligan and try again?
How about if Christians start blowing up abortion clinics and gay bars, shooting doctors, blowing up federal buildings, setting off bombs at the Olympics and harrassing families at the funerals of murdered kids and soldiers killed in combat? Those people represent all christians, do they not? Therefore all Christians should be insulted.