Pastor who wants to burn the Qu'ran.

[Da_Latios]

Here's something I read on Reddit: buy a bunch of Arabic-translated Bibles and give them to the Christian fundamentalists to burn. They will think the translated Bibles are Qur'an books. Tell them afterwards that they just burned a bunch of Bibles.

 

Or, if you don't want to burn books:

1. Buy 19 Arabic Bibles

2. Throw them in the stash

3. Tell them there are 20 Arabic Bibles in the stash

4. Watch as they sift through the mountain of books searching for 20 Bibles with the aid of a translator

5. Practice your trollface

[MirageOfDeath]

Here's something I read on Reddit: buy a bunch of Arabic-translated Bibles and give them to the Christian fundamentalists to burn. They will think the translated Bibles are Qur'an books. Tell them afterwards that they just burned a bunch of Bibles.

 

Or, if you don't want to burn books:

1. Buy 19 Arabic Bibles

2. Throw them in the stash

3. Tell them there are 20 Arabic Bibles in the stash

4. Watch as they sift through the mountain of books searching for 20 Bibles with the aid of a translator

5. Practice your trollface

Those arabic Bibles are tainted. They're in the language of the DEVIL and should burn too!!

[obfuscator]

I don't understand why he would want to burn Qu'rans. It will just get more media attention

 

You've answered your own question.

 

Stop giving this guy coverage, it doesn't help.

[MirageOfDeath]

Even if they stop giving him coverage now it's far too late. The Muslims aren't just going to forget about it. I don't know if this will cause violence inside the US itself but I can see the minority Christian populations in some Muslim countries (eg. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia) getting even more abuse than they already receive.

[Da_Latios]

The Muslims

Dear god.

[MirageOfDeath]

The Muslims

Dear god.

What? As far as I know all Muslims are against this, radicals and moderates.

[Pirate_Felix]

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[Zygimantas]

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[Dire_Wolf]

If they want to burn the Qu'ran, let them do it. It's freedom of right! Just hope that they don't expect us to supply them with CDs...

[Skull]

It's protected by the first amendment, if they guy thinks it's a good idea then he can go ahead and do it.

 

However, if I lived around there I'd show up with a few Bibles to burn, just to make a point.

[Dax]

He stopped plans, didn't he?

[Skully]

This has so randomly come up that I personally find it funny.

[SeanyTheSailor]

The Muslims

Dear god.

What? As far as I know all Muslims are against this, radicals and moderates.

He has a point. He's not saying all Muslims are extremists, but it probably will piss them off nonetheless.

[jjrox32]

I saw this on the daily show. The interview with the pastor in charge of all this made me laugh, he said something along the lines of "Moderate Muslims should be on our side about this."

 

How [bleep]ing stupid is this guy?

[krimi]

Troller's remorse? Or did they just throw a fit to get what they wanted?

[fakeitormakeit2]

It's protected by the first amendment, if they guy thinks it's a good idea then he can go ahead and do it.

 

However, if I lived around there I'd show up with a few Bibles to burn, just to make a point.

That's not making a point, that's being spiteful and doing the same ignorance he is doing to all Christians.

[Skull]

It's protected by the first amendment, if they guy thinks it's a good idea then he can go ahead and do it.

 

However, if I lived around there I'd show up with a few Bibles to burn, just to make a point.

That's not making a point, that's being spiteful and doing the same ignorance he is doing to all Christians.

I disagree, obviously. It would be showing how ridiculous what he was doing via action. I could make a similar argument that many people make towards Islam except replacing that with Christianity. People would be outraged at first I'm sure, but hopefully they would see the point I would be trying to make; that any group as large as a religion is going to have it's fair share of extremists and crazies. Because it's true. I could probably find thousands of examples of "Christians" who have murdered or committed terrorism.

 

So in short, it certainly is making a point, that it's not so nice when people are doing it to you.

[obfuscator]

It's protected by the first amendment, if they guy thinks it's a good idea then he can go ahead and do it.

 

However, if I lived around there I'd show up with a few Bibles to burn, just to make a point.

That's not making a point, that's being spiteful and doing the same ignorance he is doing to all Christians.

I disagree, obviously. It would be showing how ridiculous what he was doing via action. I could make a similar argument that many people make towards Islam except replacing that with Christianity. People would be outraged at first I'm sure, but hopefully they would see the point I would be trying to make; that any group as large as a religion is going to have it's fair share of extremists and crazies. Because it's true. I could probably find thousands of examples of "Christians" who have murdered or committed terrorism.

 

So in short, it certainly is making a point, that it's not so nice when people are doing it to you.

I'd say that's more stooping to his level then making a point....

[Skull]

It's protected by the first amendment, if they guy thinks it's a good idea then he can go ahead and do it.

 

However, if I lived around there I'd show up with a few Bibles to burn, just to make a point.

That's not making a point, that's being spiteful and doing the same ignorance he is doing to all Christians.

I disagree, obviously. It would be showing how ridiculous what he was doing via action. I could make a similar argument that many people make towards Islam except replacing that with Christianity. People would be outraged at first I'm sure, but hopefully they would see the point I would be trying to make; that any group as large as a religion is going to have it's fair share of extremists and crazies. Because it's true. I could probably find thousands of examples of "Christians" who have murdered or committed terrorism.

 

So in short, it certainly is making a point, that it's not so nice when people are doing it to you.

I'd say that's more stooping to his level then making a point....

The key difference is that I wouldn't actually do it, I'm only saying it to draw connections and that I have no animosity towards the religion where as this gentleman clearly does.

[obfuscator]

Yeah. But if you did do it, it would be just as bad as him doing it.

 

I agree with what you're saying though, this is nothing more than hatred.

[Satenza]

He has called it off.

[lordkafei]

Burning books accomplishes nothing of worth. It's just a cry for attention, and the American press is heeding the call.

 

What will people like this do when Kindles take over the market?

 

But I think the people building that controversial mosque in NYC are just as ignorant and just as in your face. Even though the law might allow such behavior, common sense should tell you that you are causing more long-term harm than good - whether it's burning someones holy book or building a mosque without regard to public sensibilities.

[ember3579]

Sat; I remember hearing that he said that he called it off in response to the Muslim Community Center a couple blocks from ground zero closing its building plans. When the people rectified that this deal was never even mentioned, let alone cleared, he started his [cabbage] right back up again. I can go look for a specific link if you want, but I'm pretty sure I saw it on CNN's web site. If it ain't there, I'll do a more concerted search.

 

Kafei; There's a difference between making a Muslim COMMUNITY CENTER a couple blocks away with no ill will in it (innocent until proven guilty, and the dudes running it are FAR from any government watch lists), which is to be honest made to promote understanding of the religion of Islam and try to improve the community (hence the term "community center"), and doing something designed to antagonize and generally piss off over a billion people on this planet for no good reason. And no, the terrorists claiming to be Muslim is not a valid excuse; would you compare the entirety of Christianity to jackasses like the Westboro Baptist Church?

[darkace21]

I find it ironic that a man that lives in America, a country founded on religious tolerance is burning the Qu'ran claiming it's the devil's religion.

 

 

I'm personally athiest, but this is offensive to even me.

[lordkafei]

Kafei; There's a difference between making a Muslim COMMUNITY CENTER a couple blocks away with no ill will in it (innocent until proven guilty, and the dudes running it are FAR from any government watch lists), which is to be honest made to promote understanding of the religion of Islam and try to improve the community (hence the term "community center"), and doing something designed to antagonize and generally piss off over a billion people on this planet for no good reason. And no, the terrorists claiming to be Muslim is not a valid excuse; would you compare the entirety of Christianity to jackasses like the Westboro Baptist Church?

 

Whether the people behind the Park51 have ill will or not is immaterial. They are pissing off people left and right. Surely someone interested in a community center would be more in tune with public sensibilities and find a more appropriate location.

 

And, BTW, this "community center" will have prayer space for upwards of 2000 people.

 

And also, BTW, the official website for the project only within the past month changed the nomenclature to "prayer space" from "mosque." You can still find the old version of the site in Google's cache. It's not a COMMUNITY CENTER - it's a MOSQUE.