Burn-A-Koran Day to be held on anniversary of 9/11, tension mounts

[-paul.]

when i first saw it i thought it said burn a Korean day i thought it was a bit harsh. But i dont agree with wither 100%

[RedStratocas]

I say burn every religious book. I can't believe how much death and destruction has been caused by things that don't actually exist.

well obviously many people including myself believe that religion is pure bogus but assuming that billions of people will gladly change their entire lives is really just ignorant. you have to be realistic.

even PALIN is condemning this!? wow i have some new found respect for this woman.

plz dont. she shouldnt get credit for having an opinion any reasonable person would also have. like if she said she's against mass murder i wouldnt have more respect for her.

Although I don't approve of his actions, I do respect him for upholding his right to freedom of speech.

just because you practice freedom of speech doesnt mean you should respect what people say. i know people have a right to go on racist rants but i still think they're idiots and ill have no respect for them

I think what is rediculous is a man who is obviously a bit of a finatic and who has a congregation of 30 has got this publicity. The world media should have just ignored him. This has been blown out of all preportion. I agree it is tasteless but who is to blame here? The man or the people who have made his story worldwide.

+rep. thats what ticks me off about this, is how absolutely no one would have heard about this had not some in the media decided to make a huge deal of it.

If certain individuals are allowed to hijack 2 airplanes and fly them into 2 buildings, killing nearly 3000 people.. then why aren't other individuals allowed to burn a book?

certainly the most arrogant post ive read in a while tbh. do you really believe the terrorists were "allowed" to knock down the world trade center? thats really absurd.

obviously this man has the right to burn the koran if he wants (ignoring the fact that the fire department denied him a permit to do so for safety reasons) but whether or not he actually should is another issue. since this story has been given exponentially more media coverage than it should have, it has a new context. not only is burning the koran completely empty of any sort of connection to the lives lost on 9/11, but really it just gives extremists a great new thing to point to in america to recruit more suicide bombers. its just giving them another reason to hate us/attack us.

[Storking]

My post wasn't intended to be taken as arrogant.. it was mis worded seeing as they clearly weren't allowed to just go ahead with the terrorism :S doesn't take a genius to realise that

anyway continuing with discussion with everyone elses posts.. the extremist muslims in the middle eastern countries are clearly taking the situation and blowing it out of proportion. I just heard on the news that it's almost definite that extremist muslims will take action and cause further deaths.. they're clearly over reacting to a stupid level if they do start attacks on americans/the western world.

Attacking the whole western world whether physically or in other ways for the actions of no more than 30 odd people in america is just out of order, referring to the 9/11 bombings (seeing as it's on the anniversary of the attacks) no matter how much hatred america/the western world had for the extremist muslims.. we never started further attacks with them or retaliated by burning pictures/flags (as far as i'm aware..) :S

[Nemo]

Attacking the whole western world whether physically or in other ways for the actions of no more than 30 odd people in america is just out of order, referring to the 9/11 bombings (seeing as it's on the anniversary of the attacks) no matter how much hatred america/the western world had for the extremist muslims.. we never started further attacks with them or retaliated by burning pictures/flags (as far as i'm aware..) :S

Lol at the irony. Its out of order for them to attack the western world (in other ways i mean, physically is ofc, out of order) because of a few ppl, yet its fine for the western world to attack them? The media has blown so much out of proportion and the generalisations and stereotypes that all of this has created is out of order in itself, and the ignorance that some people have because of it is simply astounding.

[beth]

i believe in free speech and free will, but this is just a disgusting hate crime.
if no-one has respect for anyone or anything, how can we all expect to live together?

[Storking]

How has the western world attacked them? Don't see where you're coming from..

I've seen the news broadcasts and they aren't insinuating anything or filling our minds with stereotypes/generalisations of the muslim faith.

Things might be different in America where the incident is based but in the UK, yeah it's been on the news a lot but they're not filling our heads with rubbish.

[Inseriousity.]

They're extremists. They're not going to stop no matter what we do, violent or non-violent. But giving them more excuses to be able to brainwash young Muslim teenagers in fighting for their cause isn't the best idea.

[Nemo]

How has the western world attacked them? Don't see where you're coming from..

I've seen the news broadcasts and they aren't insinuating anything or filling our minds with stereotypes/generalisations of the muslim faith.

Things might be different in America where the incident is based but in the UK, yeah it's been on the news a lot but they're not filling our heads with rubbish.

Are you for real? Okay maybe attacks is the wrong word, but things like this are an example.

And are you serious? Im talking as far as what ive heard from just people in general. Its almost impossible to deny that you and a lot of people (especially in america) have prejudices and generalisations towards asians in general. I know i certainly do and im one myself, it cant be helped. I also have them with other races too, because of the media, i know it and i cant help it.

And this is what we're talking about, not really the UK, just the west in general. And yes they are, i dont see how you can't see that? Almost every news story involving an asian person that ive heard for a while has been negative towards him. Sure you might have a different opinion from what you've read, but as far as what ive read, its been like that.

[Cheryl]

How has the western world attacked them? Don't see where you're coming from..

By burning their book, or am I missing something?

I've seen the news broadcasts and they aren't insinuating anything or filling our minds with stereotypes/generalisations of the muslim faith.

They are, each newspaper or tv station or radio station or any other media broadcaster/ writer is putting their opinions into their articles or stories and claiming it as fact. Such as in the general elections, some newspapers back different parties, this is the same in all other stories in which 2 or more parties are involved.

Things might be different in America where the incident is based but in the UK, yeah it's been on the news a lot but they're not filling our heads with rubbish.

They certainly are no different here, people put different spins on stories

People should have freedom of speech, and I am all for the bill of rights and such documents, but this is taking this way to far and the media certainly has not helped the situation.
America is supposedly the land of the free and the best county in the world, but in my opinion is one of the most backwards and racist country of all.
Religion has caused so many conflicts. I think it is one of the most frustrating concepts for any atheist such as myself.

[Storking]

Are you for real? Okay maybe attacks is the wrong word, but things like this are an example.

And are you serious? Im talking as far as what ive heard from just people in general. Its almost impossible to deny that you and a lot of people (especially in america) have prejudices and generalisations towards asians in general. I know i certainly do and im one myself, it cant be helped. I also have them with other races too, because of the media, i know it and i cant help it.

And this is what we're talking about, not really the UK, just the west in general. And yes they are, i dont see how you can't see that? Almost every news story involving an asian person that ive heard for a while has been negative towards him. Sure you might have a different opinion from what you've read, but as far as what ive read, its been like that.

I haven't got any generalisations towards muslims (asians?) at all.. I have close friends who are muslims and they're very nice people so they prove that you shouldn't have prejudice against a whole faith for the actions of the extremist followers in the middle eastern countries.

And no, I don't see that. If you watch the news and allow them to change your views on things as serious as the whole muslim faith ect, then you couldn't have had very strong views on the matter in the first place.