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Originally Posted by SteamWake
I dont get what they plan to accomplish by doing this other than pepole getting pissed off.
Kind of like the Mosque at ground zero.
Both are stupid ideas.
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This.
Again, there is ZERO question that they are protected in their right to burn any book they like—by the same Amendment that protects the mosque-builder near the World Trade Center site. The question was never one of legality, but propriety. The difference is funny, actually. The mosque builder claimed it was a positive thing to build the mosque there—and it's not positive. The church nuts could only want to burn the koran to be offensive.
I can see good reason to burn some korans—simply to demonstrate that it is no different than any other book. It may be destroyed, and doing so is a protected right. How about burning it along with some bibles—heck, throw in some Richard Dawkins to make the fundies happy. The purpose would be freedom of expression, not anythign else.