The good thing in making people not expecting any better niveau from you is that you can never disappoint them. Keep on diggin, dude. :up:

Wrong, (in this particular case) you dont offend them because there is no need to.
if a chinese guy steals your wallet, you dont go up to every chinese guy you see and punch him in the face.
It called 'common sense', although these days it is becoming less and less 'common'

As I said before, if someone is against the burnings out of fear of reprisals alone, then they are hysterical.
Living in fear of terrorism is something I might undstand if you live somewhere like Isreal, but not in the USA and Western Europe, if you gonna be that afraid of terrorism, then how do you deal with the prospect of becoming a victim of; a road traffic accident, or cancer, or domestic violent crime etc.
All these things are about million times more likley to hurt/kill you than any terrorist.

I know that for while after 9/11 Some US news stations used to report 'todays terror theat level' followed buy a colour, yellow, orange, red, purple whatever.
That is nothing but total media scare mongering and the guy who invented it should be locked up for psychological terrorism himself.

These colors are still used in the military. But yes, telling the public everyday was useless at best.

What gets me is that the Reverend T.J. wants to burn the books on the ninth anniversary of 9/11. Gosh, what a swell idea, Reverend! Honor the fallen by committing a hateful, paranoid act. :shifty:

America is better than that. :DL


Dude, I got so sick of seeing that threat meter. Now that I think about it, I never noticed that it was gone. Iiiinteresting. :hmmm::haha:

Another slow news day, lets blow up this story and milk it. :yawn:

I'm working on it ...
 

:yep:

I tried but IrfanView only resizes images.... and I'd hate to think of what would happen to the milking machine. :-?

BS.

Burning a book, ANY book is not yelling fire. It's political expression, and is the very point of the 1st Amendment. We can all agree he's an idiot, we can all think it's impolite, but thinking it is illegal is idiotic. Anyone against his right to burn a book is un-american, plain and simple. Guess what, the same goes for the flag, or the Bible---or the right to build a church/temple/mosque.

You clearly lack any understanding of what the Bill of Rights protects us from. It's there to protect us from WASHINGTON, not from ourselves.

QFT (Both of you)
:up:

Holy Bible vs Quran
 

http://imgur.com/bW1ds.jpg

http://imgur.com/SZE6Z.jpg

LOL Vendor, Looks like that particular copy of the Quarn needs a smaller font size :D

Wouldnt want to get thumped with that:timeout:

Hmmm...
 

True :yep:

already protests/riots at ISAF camps in Afghanistan :shifty:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/wo...ml?_r=1&src=mv

I'm not surprised,
 

it was only a matter of time before the rest of the gang starts

In 2007 muslims in Gaza burned bibles and destroyed crosses when they ransacked a church school.

Where was the catholic outrage? Catholic riots? Murders?

What was the response of CAIR, or other activist muslim groups? Did they call for muslims to not be disrespectful of other faiths?

Maybe...
 

But this is not a position paper on the book to be fired or not,but more a feature of mighty books

Isnt it all about whos fonts are bigger?

In 2007, Hessischer Rundfunk, a regional sub-section of Germany's state-run first television program ARD, broadcasted a film on in which a bible was burned, meant to make an artists's pointy comment on how wicked and evil the bible is. There was some lame formal protest by the church, it is written. People refused to show much interest for it, it is written. In fact I have read about the event just today. So there hardly could have been a national controversy having going on in 2007 - i would have noticed it.

I also remember that there were several incidents over the past 10-15 in which Jesus-statues got burned or mutilated. And displaying such acts on TV and in cinema, is common practice nowadays anyway.

About this Quran burning, the Westerners themselves were close to go crazy, too, stupid enough some comments in the media surely have been, really. But the uproar when Christian villagers and civilians get slaughtered by the thousands in Nigeria or by the hundreds of thousands in Darfhur by Islamic freedom-missionaries, is remarkably quite. And the reaction of the Vatican when another oh its priests or nuns got stabbed, is anything but impressive in choice of words, and determination. They do not want to raise harsh sentiments by Islam, you know. :haha:

A drunk babbling nonsense is not a already a philosophers just because you cannot understand him, and maybe a moderate temper and a selective perception are not really one and the same as well.

Of course not. :O: