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

[RedStratocas]

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

well they are extremists, eh? muslims generalize people of the west the same way people of the west generalize muslims. extremist christians/ignorant people of the west think that all muslims are suicide bombers who just want to kill everyone. they think we regularly do things like burn korans, oppress muslims, etc. there's no reasoning for either side.

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

been watchin the news much the past 8 years? obviously we dont see what we do as "attacks" but they see the very occupation of their country as a direct offensive.

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.

thats where youre wrong lol. people are stupid, nothing we can do about that. people will get all riled up about something they have no clue as to what they're talking about. the ground zero mosque ordeal is the perfect proof, simply by fox news calling it the "ground zero mosque" over and over makes millions of people think that president obama is financing a giant mosque on top of where the towers were, when thats not the case at all. it's not on ground zero, obama has nothing to do with it, and its not even a mosque. yet people were out in droves protesting it a month ago because of all the media coverage on it, even though the plans to build the community center (not mosque) have been completely public for more than a year. its not a coincidence that at the same time the media starts blowing up this story, everyone starts protesting. had the media not covered it at all, the center would be built with probably no one even noticing nor caring.

[Fez]

Nothing good can come of this.

[Andeeh]

This is done just to spark outrage. He can do what he likes but I don't see what satisfaction he is going to get from this.

[RedStratocas]

update; he's canceled his plans for the koran burning:

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[Axel]

I could've sworn it was the qu'ran, can't americans spell or something?

[Nemo]

I could've sworn it was the qu'ran, can't americans spell or something?

i too thought that, but ppl seemed to be going with it so i didnt wanna see dumb (a)

[GommeInc]

i too thought that, but ppl seemed to be going with it so i didnt wanna see dumb (a)

It's Qu'ran Ignore the American-English

update; he's canceled his plans for the koran burning:

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Thank Jesus, there's actually some common sense in that little man's head

[RedStratocas]

there is no true way to translate spelling from arabic to english. the latin-ized version is qu'ran (how it sounds), but koran is acceptable in english because its how it sounds in arabic. the new york times uses "koran" and they're a highly regarded and accurate publication. its all the same.

[Jordy]

It's now changed from being cancelled to 'put on hold'. It seems it was only cancelled because they agreed not to build a mosque near Ground Zero, however it turns out the plans for the mosque have not been changed therefore the Koran burning has been put on hold it seems

[Keri?!]

This is just ridiculous, the book obviously means alot to Muslims, after all it is their holy book and the majority look up to it for advice on life and what to do.
The American's wouldn't like it if they started burning their flag, for example. Just because they don't agree with something it doesn't mean they can go around burning holy books.
It's good to see they've 'postponed' it I guess but it's still ridiculous.