Queue on 13/9/2010 at 13:55

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5. Send truckloads of scantly clad nuns over to convert the wicked, and prove that it's okay to see women as sex symbols.
4. Depict important religious figures in a cartoonish and/or humorous fashion
3. Refer to your occupation of an Islamic nation as a "Crusade"
2. Call the Prophet Mohammed a dirty sand nigger
1. Threaten to burn the Quran

And of course the dink now says that (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2012873281_quran12.html) God himself told him not to burn the Islamic Holy Bible, thus proving the benevolence of Christianity. Apparently Jones' point in gently prodding Muslims with a stick is to prove that they have, "(http://wokv.com/localnews/2010/09/terry-jones-wont-burn-quran-sa.html) dangerous and radical elements."

Does anyone at this point still wonder why Muslims really think Christians are out to get them?


(I probably should have posted this over in Kolya's thread, but he's a whole different type of lunatic that I wouldn't want to provoke.)

DDL on 13/9/2010 at 16:10

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Well..to be fair, it's more "gently prodding crazy people who happen to be muslims to prove that crazy people are crazy when you push their crazy button".

They're basically just a lot of very angry, violent people who love burning shit, and who happen to share a collective unifying factor of religion. The factor is more of an excuse than a driving fundamental reason, I would think.

"Vast majority of muslims respond to pastor's plans with a resounding 'meh'" is not the kinda thing that sells newspapers, though.

Phatose on 13/9/2010 at 16:20

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Yeah it's radical, alarmist, and gives solid evidence the Christians are out to get the Muslim.

Still, it's much friendly then the other side.


Top One Way To Raise Awareness About Christianity, and Promote Religious Harmony

1. Blow them up.

demagogue on 13/9/2010 at 16:36

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My general feeling is we shouldn't give wackos the privilege of caring about why they're wacko. People that commit crimes should go to jail, and law-abiding people should be happy that I don't care a whit about what they do and let them carry on doing whatever it is. I can't say I feel much need to go any deeper than that on the topic, good classic liberal that I am.

I guess to be a little more concrete: Who cares what X said to Y? If (A) it's a crime, arrest them. If not then (B) pfft, so what? To the extent Y cares, I don't care about that either unless they're going to commit some crime because of it, then see (A).

june gloom on 13/9/2010 at 16:51

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just remember the cops check the stalls at 3am