Let me state up front: I will never condone burning books of any kind. I believe sincerely, that “where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people”. This statement includes the American flag, the Israeli flag, the Bible, the New Testament, and indeed, the Koran. People, please, don’t burn books.
But my opinion is irrelevant. And what I’m about to write has nothing to do with neither beliefs nor opinions. It has to do with the American way of life. I never understood how freedom of speech covers the burning of the flag. But I always admired the Americans for disagreeing with an idea, and at the same time fighting for someone else’s write to practice it, within the law and the current interpretation of the constitution. By the way, burning the constitution is OK too…
But the concept of freedom of speech stops at the Koran, and the Muslims. Suddenly, the President of the United States of America, kneels before the Muslims, and says something I never dreamed I would live to hear. Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, The President of the United States said that burning of the Koran will “serve as incentive for terrorist-minded individuals to blow themselves up to kill others”. I’m not even trying to provide an interpretation. I’m only suggesting that threats that used to come from Mr. Osama Bin Laden on a tape to Al Jazeera, is now spoken directly from the mouth of citizen number one in Washington D.C. And make no mistake, this is a threat. You do this, and that will happen. Cause and effect. Burn the Koran, and suicide bombing will follow.
And while I thin that burning the Koran is not a good idea, that it serves absolutely nothing, I doubt that suicide bombing is the right answer.
(http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39074573/ns/politics-white_house/)
Let me state further, that while distasteful, I don’t think that the building of a Mosque on top of or near Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center used to be, is such a big deal. Distasteful, yes. As distasteful as building a monument for Adolph Hitler in Auschwitz.
But again, opinions and beliefs are not the point. The point is similar to the one above. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf stated the other day that building the Mosque is “a matter of national security because to move the site would inflame radical Muslims abroad and endanger Americans and American interests”. Now, doesn’t it sound like a civilized threat to you? Move the Mosque, and the suicide bombers would come. Sounds familiar doesn’t it?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/09/imam-feisal-abdul-rauf-ground-zero-mosque.html
Well, it would seem that smuggling tapes out of Afghanistan to Al Jazeera, is a thing of the past. The threats can be sounded on American media throughout the nation and throughout the world. Burn the Koran and we’ll send the suicide bombers. Move the Mosque a couple of blocks, and we’ll send the suicide bombers.
What’s next? And where’s the freedom of speech?
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