The Quran burning: sign of things to come?

If Muslims knew the spirit of Quran,they will burn it(Quran) themselves to show the world that the message of Mohammad has set them free from petty actions.

Go to hell Khan, people like you are disgusting.

To summarize the whole thing...
Mr. Muqtedar Khan you are an A$$ Hole

wants to symbolize what has happened to the religion that he loves.

I mean that the Christian would burn a Bible to symbolize that.

RhymesWithRight is correct about having the right to do those things regardless of the hurt feelings of others. The real distinction among those three events (the Beck Rally, the Cordoba Center, the Koran-burning) is in the motivations of the organizers.

Beck's motivations are suspect because of his record of pandering to white resentment. If the rally were being organized by someone like Rick Warren, the MLK anniversary wouldn't be an issue.

The opposite is true of the Cordoba Center, whose organizers come from the Sufi wing of Islam that has nothing to do with Al Qaeda. If the center's organizers had praised 9/11 as God's vengeance, then their motives would be called into question.

And Terry Jones is open about his hatred of Islam and Muslims. I can imagine a different motive for someone else - say, a Christian who believes that his religion has been taken over by heretics or demagogues and wants to symbolize what has happened to the religion that he loves.

"Believe me, there is nothing more precious to Muslims than the Quran, and watching people toss it into fire, will be horrifying. I would rather burn in fire myself, than watch a Quran burn."

"No matter how ugly the act the Constitution permits this, is not an acceptable excuse. The Constitution does not permit this."

I'm surprised that a scholar and university professor would not know how to read a book or document critically. But if your misunderstanding of the Koran is equal to your misunderstanding of the US Constitution, then you are a very confused man, and certainly should not be teaching others. The university is a place of questioning and inquiry. If you cannot question your own beliefs, and cannot accept different beliefs from others in philosophy, but not fact, then you have no place in the American educational system.

How can you pretend to teach political science with no understanding of the letter or spirit of the US Constitution? How can any university hire someone so difficient in understanding American politics and our founding documents? Are the other professors of political science and international relations at the university as ignorant and simple minded as you are?

But I'm wasting my time with you. The Bible says, "The instruction of fools is folly."

If I was one of your undergraduate students, I would threaten to burn a Koran if you didn't give me an "A" in your political science class. And you are probably foolish enough to do it.

You are both a fool and a charlatan.

Assalamu Alaikum and Eid Mubarak.
I want to thank you for this; it is hands-down the best thing I've read on the subject to date.
Jazakallahu khairan.
Ma'Salaama,
Aishah Schwartz
http://pressroom.prlog.org/mwa-net

Assalamu Alaikum and Eid Mubarak.
I want to thank you for this; it is hands-down the best thing I've read on the subject to date.
Jazakallahu khairan.
Ma'Salaama,
Aishah Schwartz

Why is the pastor foolish, nitwit, nutjob, misguided etc?
>>>beagun27 | September 8, 2010 7:37 PM Bible burning would raise a real ruckus in the US and be considered as an insult to many.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5774112/petraeus_condemns_koran_burning_didnt_pg2.html?cat=9

>>There will be those of Islamic faith who will use this to paint all Christians as being barbaric j They burn the Bible. There was no war. The USA Army burned hundreds of Bible!!!
http://www.newser.com/story/59546/us-army-burned-bibles-in-afghanistan.html

If the American bibles "did get out, it could be perceived by Afghans that the US government or the US military was trying to convert Muslims," a Defense Department spokesman said yesterday. So what are those Muslims trying to do to us? Nothing?

>>>American soldiers are prohibited from evangelizing while in uniform, especially the citizens of a foreign country they are stationed in. In fact that is exactly how we let them prove how accommodating and tolerant they are. We should drop hundreds of thousands of Bible over Afghanistan and see how they react.
Yes Islam is a threat. What civilization have they assimilated well into without destroying it and taking it over, while forcing every into Islam. Only because we are so powerful in the states is the reason why they have not succeeded here. Where was the worldwide Islamic outrage at 9/11? There was more praising Osama and sympathies for Al Qaeda and Muslims who had suffered at the hand of Israel. All was about our support for Israel. Piss and defecate on them and then burn them! Show us peace and we show you respect!
ashmeer - be careful for your other islamic friends/brethrens, Muslims or however you reference yourselves, will be after you now.
JoStalin- I still have tears coming down my eyes

The author of this article writes:
"...the Holy Quran, the only book in the entire heritage of humanity that claims to be solely the word of God."
WOW...Again a claim,again a statement..I am a non white non christian citizen of this country.I really don't appreciate the idea of quran burning by this florida pastor.Thats disgusting to do to any holy book.And i stand with muslim community and their right to build a mosque in lower manhattan.But when muslim people like this writer claim the things like above and do some things themselves then i change my mind about them every time..for example
1-This guy claimed"...the Holy Quran, the only book in the entire heritage of humanity that claims to be solely the word of God."My question to him is "DID HE READ ALL THE HOLY BOOKS OF OTHER RELIGIONS BEFORE CLAIMING THIS"???WHy muslims wants to show the world that they are superior all the time and others are INFIDELS.
2-He says"Now i know how buddhist might have felt when budhha's statue was blown away by talibans...mark his words....he says NOW when it is happening with them but not before??why?? why not before??why he didn't wrote an article about Taliban's cruelty at that time???why not when Taliban's behead people from other religion and destroy their worship places??bcoz muslim are so self centered...
They act as a blind when their own brothers kill people just coz of their religion and make a huge cry when it happens to them
3-Then he says
No matter how ugly the act the Constitution permits this, is not an acceptable excuse.
Now he don't believe what constitution says,he believes in what is right or wrong on moral/ethic bases...
So when it is issue of building a mosque close to ground zero then it is a matter of constitution and not of moral or emotions.But when it is quran burning then it is matter of morality and emotions...GREAT...so whatever you do or want that is right but not for other people....again self centered..
4-then they preach people about religious tolerance,1st amendment,constitution,freedom of religion,separation of church and state...only in U.S.A...why not they teach this to SAUDI rulers,UAE kings,Whole middle east,,all muslim countries where they belong originally????They garbage holy books of other religions at the airport,,,no infidels is allowed to enter even city of mecca...u can't build any non muslim worship place....SO why not go and open your mouth against those dictators before teaching people here...IN YOUR COUNTRIES all non muslims are dogs/infidels but when you go some where you talk about rights and religious freedom..what a joke...but i know ur shameless people...
and you will keep thinking ur the best and rest r infidels...

Terry Jones is simply anti-American; I don't see how anyone who claims to be an American can justify endangering soldiers to accomplish nothing. In fact, the only thing I see being accomplished is that Terry Jones achieved national fame for this ridiculous display of anti-Christian, anti-American ignorance that only demonstrates how much of America is uneducated. What's worse is we give him the attention he wants.

I would arrest him and anyone who attempts to carry out his plan. It is still a time of war, and we should be able to detain him indefinitely without charging a reason simply for being a threat to American soldiers.

I have a lot to say on this subject and have withheld much to avoid being offensive.

"I would rather burn in fire myself, than watch a Quran burn. "

Then you are not on sane mental footing.

Not everybody holds sacred what YOU hold sacred, and get over yourself. It's a book, a book with information in that you consider very important. Fine. Stop telling us what the Constitution does and does not protect. Your religious beliefs have nothing to do with it.

And meanwhile... how many Bibles, and other books, and American flags have been burned? And when those things happen, do we hear world-wide outcry over it? No. Flag burning gets a blip on the news. But we don't start hearing death threats and fear of terrorist acts as retaliation.
Only when it's a cartoon about Islam, or an insult to the Quran do we hear things like this. Why is that? And why can't somebody protest THAT by burning the Quran?

No, I'll tell you what the Constitution does. It protects free speech and freedom of religion, and that includes burning the Quran.

Oh good grief, give me a break. This is a tempest in a teapot. Islam is not immune to the currently fashionable preoccupation with ridiculing and diminishing religious icons in today's society. Christians have become quite accustomed to it and Muslims need enjoy no special exemptions. It is absolutely silly to attribute any serious implications to this bunch of publicity-seeking nitwits in Florida.

How does this guy even have a job here in America. He is so very wrong on so many points, reading this article made my head spin.

Rev.Jones has the right to burn any book he so chooses. The Nutty Professor has the right to be offended.

Maybe it's time to make Muslims feel a bit uncomfortable. Maybe on 9/11 I will make myself a pork sandwich and burn a Quran myself.

Let's take a test on consistency. Read the following statements. Do you agree or disagree?

1. Glenn Beck was right to hold his rally on the same day Martin Luther King gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
2. The mosque in New York City should be built at the planned location.
3. The Quran burning should go on as scheduled.

If you did not answer the same way for all three, you're being hypocritical.

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Actually, that is not correct. One may consider one appropriate and another not without being hypocritical, based upon a variety of factors.

To truly be hypocritical, one would have to disagree with one of these statements:

1) Glen Beck Had the right to hold his rally on the anniversary of the MLK march, regardless of the hurt feelings of others.

2) The developers of the Ground Zero Mosque have the right to build their structure, regardless of the hurt feelings of others.

3) The congregation in Florida has the right to burn Qurans, regardless of the hurt feelings of others.

The author of this article writes:
"...the Holy Quran, the only book in the entire heritage of humanity that claims to be solely the word of God."

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So what? I don't believe that, so why should I be expected to treat it that way when I personally believe it to be a book of lies? After all, YOUR right to believe what you want to about the Quran in no way limits my way to believe what I want to about it -- and the rules you impose upon yourself regarding the treatment of the Quran are not binding upon me as an unbeliever.

Indeed, the problem you seem to illustrate in this column is that Islam produces immature, violent sociopaths who are incapable of conforming themselves to civilized standards set by society when they don't get their way.

If Islam o phobias and anti-Islam forces are un-moved of their un-wise decision of "Quran Burning" ceremonies around the USA and Globe on 9/11, many Muslim Organizations are planning to go ahead with their decision to distribute Quran, Bible and the US Constitution free of charge to every one who will attend their brotherhood and unity fairs on the day of Edul-Fitre and 9/11.

Posted by: citysoilverizonnet | September 7, 2010 2:43 PM

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Hey, that's great -- Muslims acting like Americans rather than terrorists when they are offended. Now if they will just condemn the Islamic leaders who say that this stupid deed by a couple of dozen cult members justifies the ongoing terrorist war against America.

Mr Kahn wrote:

"The Constitution does not permit this"

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if the Constitution permits putting the mosque at Ground Zero despite the pain and anguish it causes the survivors of Islamic terrorism, then it certainly permits burning a book even if it hurts the feelings of Muslims.

Cerf541 wrote:

This is horrible!!! Book burning is the most evil act I can imagine.

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Odd. Flying airplanes full of innocent men women and children into office buildings is the worst thing I can imagine, followed by beheading someone because he is a Jew, stoning adulteresses, and a host of other savage, barbaric acts that are condoned by Islam.

"Where books are burned in the end people will burn." - Heinrich Heine

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Hey, Mookie -- you may have missed the fact that people burned first in this country, on 9/11/2001, a full nine years before the Quran bonfire and weenie roast down in Florida.

I am not sure how exactly the Quran proscribes insulting of other faiths.
Prophet Mohammed himself was involved in attacks and destruction of Jewish temples,and as far as India is concerned, thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of its sacred, architecturally rich temples were destroyed and looted. In Hampi, one of the most famous examples of Islamic zealotry, the soldiers camped for 6 months to be able to raze the wonder of Vijayanagar to ground. Aurangazeb, one of the most cruel Moghul emperors, invited "architects" from Iran to be able to destroy the Benares/Varanasi temple, the Mathura temple was destroyed not once, but three times by different Islamic marauders in a 1000 year time frame. I am pretty sure there were many an act of kindness, many a display of cultural richness and inputs to the places that Muslims destroyed, but they were all incidental, amongst the common thread of intolerance for other religions. Pray, why don't Muslims accept this fact and acknowledge, instead of hiding under "Islam is a religion of peace"? I think that's a starting step towards reconciliation!

Tye most book burning in the past century took place in Germany, ordered by Hitler's government. Burning the Koran should be considered a hate crime, an act deleterious to the foreign policy of the US government, and an offense against religious freedom in the US.
Indeed, I would not like the Sharia, but then I do not like quite a few thing in the Bible either. Bible burning would raise a real ruckus in the US and be considered as an insult to many.
Tye mere proposal reflects an insufferable intolerance among a supposedly Christian congregation. If they do not repent, they will be held in national contempt forever more. They also invite the same treatment for themselves.
Repent before it is too late.

As a practicing Christian (who has lived in many countries with widely different cultures) I find the plans to burn the Quran viscerally repulsive. I cannot imagine Jesus encouraging this type of activity.

There will be those of Islamic faith who will use this to paint all Christians as being barbaric just as there are those who call themselves Christians blame all of Islam for the activities of 9/11.

We are a country that is great not because we can demonstrate our freedom by doing hateful acts as many above have suggested, but because we can assimilate many ideas, many cultures, and many religions and become a richer more tolerant and stronger nation because of it.

I appreciate Mr. Khan's advice to Muslim leaders to counsel the Muslim not to pursue violence against Quran burning. It is worthwhile advice. On the other hand the very society which has provided Mr. Khan the freedom of expression and to practice his religion in any way he wants; now want to forbid the others to express themselves. Mr. Khan is blaming the whole American society for burning the Quran where almost everyone has spoken against it. So Mr. Khan is absolutely wrong. I am not angry at that poor and ignorant Terry Jones the preacher who wants to burn Quran and who has stolen from the till in his previous church (he is a thief), actually I feel sorry for his ignorance. His own family has disowned him and I am sure his congregation will desert him too very soon. I pray to God to provide him guidance.

I am not sure burning few copies of Koran will snuff the hatred from Islamists. Just check out what is happening in this border district in India facing Islamic Bangladesh, classic demographic warfare once Muslims reach the "threshold" of Intolerance!

NO RESPITE DESPITE ARMY PRESENCE

NO RESPITE DESPITE ARMY PRESENCE. TODAY MORNING AGAIN MUSLIMS ARE ATTACKING DIFFERENT HINDU VILLAGES AROUND KARTICKPUR AWAY FROM THE MAIN ROAD.

HINDU WOMEN ARE FLEEING FROM BISWANATHPUR TOWARDS KARTICKPUR AS A LARGE MUSLIM MOB IS PROCEEDING FROM DOGACHHIA SIDE. POLICE IS TOTALLY HELPLESS. SEVERAL RAF PERSONNEL HAVE BEEN SEVERELY BEATEN UP BY THE MUSLIMS. EVEN ARMY IS UNABLE TO STOP THE MUSLIM MOB.

"KHEJURDANGA KARMAKAR PARA" VILLAGE JUST NOW BURNT. IT IS 2 KM. INSIDE FROM THE MAIN ROAD. ARMY IS NOT GOING THERE.

WOMEN ARE SCARED. ARMY IS NOT GOING INSIDE AS THEIR NUMBER IS TOO SMALL, ONLY ABOUT 200

SITUATION EXTREMELY WORSE. HINDUS ARE WAITING FOR MASSACRE. ALL SIDES ARE BLOCKED BY THE MUSLIMS. NO ROUTE TO ESCAPE.

http://hindusamhati.org/

This is not a preacher and a small congregation in Florida. This is the media fanning the flames and feeding the oxygen to the flame. If the media would not cover this crap it would have died at the front door of the church in Florida. Only a handful of people would have known about it. But no the media has to descend on this situation and spread it over the entire world. Yes, the media is responsible for whatever happens. Through their actions the entire world gets out of shape.

I'm going to take a poo on the Koran....RIGHT NOW!!!!!!

ahhhh......

One of the beautiful things about this country is that we all have the right to free speech and expression. Mr. Khan has the freedom to express his opinions and the pastor in Florida has the same. Although Mr. Khan is free to express his opinions, he is 100% wrong that the constitution prohibits burning books ... Just like the constitution protects the right to burn the American flag. Personally, I find both distasteful and disrespectful, but we have to stick to our core American values. I find it disappointing that the current administration chimes in on this. I agree with the people here that have pointed out the hypocrisy of people who want freedom of speech when it suits them, but not when it does not suit them ... on both sides of the aisle. I also agree that the guy in Florida is doing this primarily for publicity and that if we ignore it, it would go away much quicker. But now I'm being a hypocrite by expressing my opinion and continuing the dialogue. Isn't freedom grand?

While I accept the fact that this stunt from the Church in Florida is nothing more than a stunt to pull in more members for their congregation and make some money, I do need to point out

a) The Library of Alexandria
b) University of Taxila
c) Nalanda
d) Vijayanagar
e) Bamiyan Buddha
amongst the greatest treasures on Earth destroyed by zealots of Islam. Agreed, the first few were all deeds done long ago, but the Bamiyan episode is still fresh in one's mind.

India is in fact a walking graveyard, witness to wanton destruction at the hands of Islamic warriors.

"The Constitution does not permit this"

Yes, actually, it does. You should try reading it sometime.

If you don't like that a Christian burned a Koran, you can say you don't like it or you can burn a Bible. All those acts are legal in the United States, and that's one of the great things about our country.

For the person who brought up the Bibles destroyed in Afghanistan - that's a completely different situation. American soldiers are prohibited from evangelizing while in uniform, especially the citizens of a foreign country they are stationed in. A cursory study of history will tell you why that's a good policy to have. The soldiers who tried to pass out those Bibles broke the law, and the Bibles were confiscated and destroyed.

As a Brit I was appalled at 9/11. But burning books (copies of the Koran) will not make terrorists repent of their ways. Terrorists should be sought out by the authorities, brought to trial, and just punishment provided.

"I would rather burn in fire myself, than watch a Quran burn."

Wow. That's stupid. I feel sorry for you.

APR2: "Being christian is a misdeed.... no other religious text says stuff like this. "

Actually, the Bible says that non-Christians will burn in a lake of fire and says non-believers are wicked. Islam is just like Christianity in this respect. Both claim to be the only true faith and both advocate using the threat of violence to gain converts. How do you think your ancestors became Christian?

It doesn't singe my heart. It's just a copy of a book. Anyone who gets this emotionally attached to an inanimate object - whether it's a book, a flag, or a piece of bread - has left the path of reason. If someone is moved to violence in response to Pastor Jones's act, they are just showing how crazy they are.

The funny part about all this is that a Christian is condemning Islam for being violent. That's about as serious a case of a pot calling a kettle black as I can think of.

I only wish these superstitious morons could fight amongst themselves without it spilling over to the rest of us.

It's pretty funny to read this thread and see the "Report Offensive Comment" link after each very offensive comment herein. Every time I visit the On Faith blog, I steel myself for the bigots and cowards who feel free to say online what they would never say in person, but today's "conversation" is pretty bad.

At this point there are several arguments I'd like to counter, but the one I feel compelled to respond to (and have the time to) is the one suggesting that Islam is categorically incompatible with "the West". That suggestion is, simply put, ignorant. I'm from St. Louis originally, born and raised. I'm American as it gets, and absolutely no one who knows me would ever argue otherwise. I also grew up in a large, loving, quiet, humble, productive, tax-paying, ethnically diverse and patriotic Muslim community that has been around for decades. If you don't like my religion and want to shout about it, and burn my book, that's because of the freedom we all hold dear. But I cannot accept the assertion that I'm not American because of my religion. I put it to you that if you don't believe that, then you yourself fail to understand what it means to be an American.

Let's send a bunch of Bibles to groups in Afghanistan so they can burn them and feel that the scales of justice have remained balanced. After all, this whole "Xtian vs. Muslim" thing has degenerated into nothing more than a Hatfield vs. McCoy exercise in scorekeeping.

Mr Khan from his mini- article appears to me as a potential terrorist. He needs to be closely monitored.He display a lot resemblance with Major Naddal Malik. every sensible and articulating human being knows for sure that Islam is a threat to any civilization that has existed or is still existing.Only a daft human being,people with ulterior motives or the fifth columnist in our midst and people who has balancing act problems with trade,political interest and truth -- would rather say; Islam is peaceful; and is not a threat to any nation.
Pastor Jones should go ahead with his constitutional right. Those who feel offended should go back to their original homes.

In light of the fact that the majority of Muslims are illiterate (UNESCO World Education Assessment 2008)I find it hard to believe that the physical manifestation of the words of your god could possibly be so sacred. Would that not make illiteracy an affront to your god?
History, at least the history not scrubbed by Islam, has shown Muhammad to be a thoroughly depraved, murderous psychopath. He's a man that fabricated his position as a prophet to explain the fact that he suffered from epileptic seizures, a malady that was considered to be a mark of devil possession and punishable by death. He was hardly a prophet,he was simply a dishonest man trying to save his own skin. The Qur'an is nothing more than the rantings of a madman, a false prophet, who put words in his god's mouth in order to justify his own perverted and murderous acts and bend people to his will.
While the bible is simply a collection of moralistic fairy tales based on an imaginary god, the Qur'an is more akin to worship of a not so imaginary evil, Muhammad, who if there were such a thing as the devil, which of course there is not, would certainly be his spawn.

Please, get a grip. Books are not a scarce commodity anymore. They are just paper. Print more -- or get on the internet and read it or download it if you wish. For chrissake, it is not like this church is stoning someone to death. It is only a book or two, not a life.

Let's take a test on consistency. Read the following statements. Do you agree or disagree?

1. Glenn Beck was right to hold his rally on the same day Martin Luther King gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
2. The mosque in New York City should be built at the planned location.
3. The Quran burning should go on as scheduled.

If you did not answer the same way for all three, you're being hypocritical. Many people will be / have been offended by each of the three examples above. But everybody has the right to free speech. Too often, we're willing to bend the rules for people with our own ideologies, but not for others. That's called discrimination.

This Burning of the Quran makes sense due to it's nature. It is in principle the same thing as the ground zero mosque. They probably should not burn the Quran; But according to the constitution it is ok. They probably should not build a mosque at ground zero; But according to the constitution it is ok. So you see.

Honestly, I don't think people should be burning Korans nor burning Bibles........

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/us.army.destroys.afghan.bibles/23281.htm

"A spokeswoman for the US military, Major Jennifer Willis, said, "I can now confirm that the Bibles shown on Al Jazeera's clip were, in fact, collected by the chaplains and later destroyed. They were never distributed," reports Reuters."

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Security/Default.aspx?id=516980

"The U.S. military is confirming that it has destroyed some Bibles belonging to an American soldier serving in Afghanistan. "

Where was the outrage and press coverage on the Bible Burning? Makes you wonder whether the MSM has an agenda. Surely, it showed up on their radar. Silence is consent

Fundamentalism, of any type, due to its prerequisite lack of intelligent thought, could prove to be the worst weapon of mass destruction, of all.

Mr. Kahn, I think i just understood something about what you said that makes some sense of what we see in islamic countries.

If you believed it would be a good thing or a righteous act to throw yourself in the fire rather than a replaceable book - and that your god would be happy with that - that your God values a stack of paper more than he values you?

That is just the saddest thing I've ever heard.

But it accounts for what we see every day from those countries - human life is of little value - others here have enumerated the deeds we see done in allah's name. All because a stack of paper is more valuable than a human life.

What good are repositories of history, culture and values if there are no humans to read them? It kind of sounds like idolatry. But knowledge always is in the university isn't it! ;o) I'm an eduholic myself.

I tell you from the bottom of my heart, I am sorry your God does not value you and your life more than a replaceable book.

I must say however, in response to your idea that such book and ideology are a message for all nations...life should never be so cheap. That's why american's don't want more mosques, they could not abide by the idea there life is of so little value.

The interesting thing is - you are supposed to be and will inevitably be free to practice your religion freely as you know.

Depending on your sect you would unlikely be able to practice your religion in the country of your ancestors with such freedom as america has given you. How could you wish that to change?

I'm glad to see you urge others to ignore the angry man in FL.

I wish you could urge them to believe their lives are of far greater valuable than replaceable paper.

Lets look forward to Sept 12th with peace to all men.

All you people wanting and thinking you are taking the high road just want to look good. Like cocktail party liberals. Burn the book. Piss off Islam because it feels good!

Dr. Muqtedar Khan conveniently ignored the fact that the Nalanda Buddhist monastery was burned down to ground zero with all books and study and researches of Buddha teaching in 1193. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda.
Also note that all resident monks were killed. About 8000 of them.
And the Nalanda fire lasted over 6 months.

Grow up Dr. Khan and take some responsibility for your "unwanted" friends of yours, and keep quiet, or you may cry quietly if you still have a heart and compassion for those who are killed as "suicide bombers" by the Muslims.

How many churches and Temples have the followers of Muhammad burned over the years? Did you ever stop for a second to think about the Pagans whose temple Muhammad expropriated and destroyed their gods to make it your Kaaba? You are from India. Have your ever ever stopped to talk to the hindus about the history of how the muslims made the idols of their deities as foot steps for the common muslims? How the hindus were made to urinate on their holy books and forced to eat cows which they referred to as their "mother"? How do you think they felt?

Did you ever write on Van Gogh's slaughter for merely writing the quran's verses on human bodies in a film?

Instead of worrying about a lousy book, why don't you do something about the honor killings in Islam, and try to get the muslims to stop blowing themselves and others up just to meet some imaginary hurs in some imaginary heaven.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-relatives-with-blood-on-their-hands-2073142.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-the-crimewave-that-shames-the-world-2072201.html

When John Lennon wrote and recorded "Imagine", he sure had a point.

Slit the throats of innocent journalists like Pearl, hang bodies of Americans from bridges, hiding in Mosques and shoot at US solders, call us infidels, stone women, hang children, kill innocents while praying, shoot pregnant women............. and now you talk about your holy book? What in Islam is holy ?

"I would rather burn in fire myself, than watch a Quran burn."

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Than you're crazy and provide excellent proof just how debased Islam really is.

A Muslim said to me there are many interpretations of the Curan.

I can´t accept violence will be preached in the mosque, as reported by some video´s.

However facts are characterizing the faithful.

Wow, what a drama queen.

This act is not just some symbolic gesture of defiance. It is an act of egregious violence against the beliefs and the sacred symbols of one fourth of humanity.

Please note that ideas are not people. So no, this is not an act of violence; it is a symbolic gesture.

Yes, the people who are planning to burn these Qurans are jerks. They're being deliberately insulting. At the same time, what they're doing is as legal as burning the US flag. It's called freedom of expression. Get used to it.

Note, too, that they're doing it partly for the publicity, and you're playing into their hands by showing how easy it is for them to make you unhappy. Grow up, rise above the insults, stop making it fun for them, and you'll find that the problem may go away.

If you can't tell the difference between a book and a person, or a book and a god, then that's your problem, not theirs, or ours.

Wars were fought for religious reasons, back
with the crusades and with Muslims in the 7th
century to expand their territory. We have
moved from that to political wars. For 9/11
Mr. Jones is bringing in the religious aspect, and using the Constitution to protect
acts of hate. He doesn't believe he will be responsible for any retaliation. The acts of
hate against Muslims have been increasing over the last months. He is lighting a fire and cursing the light.

Dr. Muqtedar Khan, interesting you removed my post, what you didn't like that I stated President Obama is Muslim?

We should stealthily throw Korans into porta potties on the Natonal Mall. That way tourists from the heartland will poop and pee on them.

Forever and a day I hear Muslims talk about the crusades. They conveniently ignore the fact that much of the land conquered in the 7th and 8th centuries were at the time Christian. Furthermore, the crusades ended for all practical purposes in the 15th centuries. If the Venetians and other had not prevailed at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 and the Austrians and Poles had not prevailed in the Vienna siege of 1683 there is every reason to believe that modern day Europe and by extension modern day United States most likely would be Muslim countries. My point in quite clear: Muslims want to ignore the fact that most Muslim lands were another religions until conquered by Muslims and Muslim attacks on Christianity continued long long after the end of the crusades.

LOL! Dear tara172 !

Your cracking me up child.

Communism despises religion and its beliefs completely godless. Yet they have warred and murdered countless millions in the 20th century alone.

Its quite a lie that if you got rid of religion you'd have no war.

For one thing - how are you going to get rid of religion? Kill all the people in pursuit of your peace??? giggle - I'm sorry

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That USED to be the one great thing about America and why so many people all over the world wanted to come here - they didn't have to be "spiritual" but no religious to please you - or anyone else - every many was held accountable to his conscience.

Its too bad the Terry has no conscience but just some burning hatred instead.

Its too bad this author respects books more than people, unless somewhere he asked these same muslims to stop killing over cartoons or stoning women, or burning churches full of people... all in the name of islam, and hopefully - perhaps sometime he has.

But the great thing about it is - he's entitled to his faith, his opinion, his life choices, in other words - his freedom.

On September 12th the dumb dude in FL is only going to have a pile of ashes in his front lawn. He'll have accomplished nothing of importance. The media siding with the idea that a huge populace who regularly spout their hate at america and burn our flag in anger ought to have a "right" to be angry? The media is as stupid as Terry whateverhis name is.

The media is making a sensation out of this one fool because it gets clicks and ups the prices to their ads.

Anything happens as a result of this guy 10% ought to be laid on the doorstep of the washingtonpost, the news chanels, and the rest, 10% for Terry - and the remaining 80% to anyone who willingly picks up a gun or other weapon and brandishes it upon their neighbor. For that is the ultimate responsibility. Hitler himself couldn't kill the millions it took the actions of the people of his nation and THEY are to blame.

Remind them that if they commit murder - it is the choice THEY made.

Half the crime is the politically correct saying the guy has not rights. The "politically correct" >> WHOSE politics has this become?

Burning of the Koran is a loud, though emotionally jarring event, signifying that freedom of speech is the most sacred of all values in the US.

Hatred, not freedom of speech, is what motivates the Rev. Jones event.

The Koran is supposed to contain the words of Allah.

Are these words so fleeting that if some obscure self styled Florida 'pastor' with a total congregation of 50 (including himself) and an IQ of 100 burns copies of this book, all would be lost?

Come on! what good is a God that needs his acolytes to defend him.? Isn't it the other way around? I mean is Islam so fragile that one twit in Florida can bring it down?

Has it occurred to those bent on taking offense that this guy might just be a publicity hound who sees this as a great PR stunt and that the more attention he gets on this, the bigger the potential following of fellow nuts? Not to mention radio talk shows..

These things are best ignored.

I did not see anyone get upset when The Pentagon under the Obama Administration acknowledged seizing and burning the privately owned Bibles of American soldiers serving in Afghanistan. The Bibles had been printed in the local Pashto and Dari languages, and sent by private donors to American Christian soldiers and chaplains, for distribution to American troops on overseas military bases during optionally-attended Christian worship services.

But Obama, Clinton and the rest don't care about bibles, just Quran's. Why do they hate Christians so much? (Except Obama, I realize he is a Muslim).

God help us!

it is very hurtful to burn someone's religious book, but it is a civil right in our country, just like sticking an Islamic culture center 2 minutes from the heart of sorrow in Manhatten, is a freedom.

We need to be responsible how we use our freedoms because words and deeds do hurt.

However, burning a book is not blowing up thousands of human lives in the name of Allah. It is still just a book and the images we see each day of the hate for our western way of life emanating from Islamic cultures does disturb us deeply too. This is what happens. And it is sad.

Lets remember that people are being killed for cartoons of the "Prophet" and for filming movies that criticize the treatment of women in Islamic culture.

For the most part American culture is very accepting and open, and peaceful. We have seen the denial and projection in which a majority of Muslims blame 9/11 on the Israeli Mossad, and yet at the same to praise and adore Osama bin Laden for pulling it off. When do our feelings start to count, in this country about the hate speech against us in these countries? We need to see the Islamic world taking responsibility for breeding this anger and fury.

Though I see the Koran burning as not in good taste. The writer of the story knows as much about the U.S. Constitution as I know about flying a moon rocket. He claims that the burning is not allowed, it does allow the burning of any books. Islam only sees the world through the eyes of Islam. Not all people see or want the Koran as this author states and that is part of the problem. Bottom line is that if followers of Islam would have condemned the 9/11 attacks with the fervor that they condemn the burning of the Koran, I doubt there would be a book burning in Florida. As an added Insult many Muslims celebrated when they heard of or saw the attack on the Twin Towers, many Muslim governments denied that is was followers of Islam in those plane until confirmed by the leader of al-Qaeda, even though it was not the first time terrorist tried to bring down the Towers. As I see it: There is only a problem when it's offensive to followers Islam.

An excerpt from a deposition of Pastor Terry Jones, August 10, 2010.

Pastor Terry Jones who caused international controversy with his Quran burning plan, believes that Islam is "of the devil" and apparently has similar problems with other religions.

Last month, in a deposition from a court case in which Jones was a witness, attorney Michael Spellman asked Jones what else he believed was "of the devil."

Q. And you believe that everything that is not from god is of the devil. Is that right?

A. Yeah, I guess so. Uh-huh. Then again, it depends on what you're talking about. I don't believe necessarily baseball is from the devil because it's not from god. But I mean, basically in general, I believe that if it's not from god, it's from the devil. Right.

Q. Is Hinduism of the devil?

A. Yes, of course.

Q. Buddhism?

A. .Yeah.

Q. How about Judaism?

A. Yes.

source: CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20015853-10391695.html

look at your big mostache, Koran allah protected from every risks, don't kill your time talking about burning Koran and showing off through media, let us see what happen on saturday.....

There are all sorts of men and women of God who occupy the pulpit who preach love and tolerance and would never dream of this holy war bad publicity scheme, but will their message get the media blitz treatment?

Oooooooooo..look out, someone might issue a "Fatwa" against the Florida pastor.....Scary Stuff!!!! HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!! --And they always come from some desert rag-head who lives in a mud-hut and has more in common with the 7th century than the 21st.

(What is scary is the thought of these Muslim morons getting their primitive paws on nuclear weapons)

"peace, tolerance" Nouri1

in what islamic nation was or is there "peace and tolerance"?

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Yes, Posted by: groucho42 - that was my point. Islamic leaders were FOR the holocaust - why would this writer use that as an example. Something backwards here in what he is saying. We read "holocaust" and think - an evil thing - do they read holocaust and see a good thing if it was what they (islam) were working FOR. ????

BAD VERY BAD choice of analogies.

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"Believe me, there is nothing more precious to Muslims than the Quran, and watching people toss it into fire, will be horrifying. I would rather burn in fire myself, than watch a Quran burn."

I consider myself a liberal. I believe this planned burning is a bad idea, it is provocative and disrespectful. I also believe Muslims have the right to build the Mosque near ground zero.

That said, your statement above highlights what to me is the crux of this matter. It appears to me that you and other Muslims have made an idol of the Quran, and placed that idol above certain human values that we all must abide by if we are to survive as a civilization. What values? That human life (including your own, which you suggest you would subject to the flame in place of your Holy Book) is sacred, and freedom of expression (The right of a foolish, misguided Pastor to commit a gravely disrespectful act) is a fundamental right of all Americans, for starters.

Peace to you.

I wonder how the writer of this article felt when Daniel Pearls' head was sawed off. Why not go back to your archaic, pathetic rat hole of a country where you can stone people, chop off hands and have honor killings in the name of your muhammad.

Wow... imagine all the wars and conflict that would be avoided and could have been avoided if organized religion were abolished. Those who believe burning the holy text of any religion will make things better simply show their ability to lower themselves to the tit for tat one upping mentality that will see our country walk down the same sad pointless road that Israel and Palestine find themselves. You burn my book I'll burn yours, you blow up my house of worship I blow up yours, you call me infidel I call you heathen. On and on forever pointlessly. With each side having the actual audacity to believe that they actually KNOW what God (or whatever higher power) wants them to do. To actually believe they know the mind of an omnipotent being. May whatever they do hold sacred help them when they actually have to face that being and tell them "But I was just sure you would approve of my wholesale slaughter of the beliefs and lives of those I felt you opposed." I dislike organized religion and wish it all gone. The key word here is "organized." I'm fine with faith and spirituality.

Who cares: burn the Koran, burn the Bible? These people are only extreme nuts who will act out their hatred anyway. Does anyone really believe that the Jihadist movement will stop wanting to kill American if a church group of fifty people decides not to burn their holy book? This is nonsense. BTW When did the mainstream media become offended when Americans burned the flag. We need to stop defining America by the kook fringe, and the media needs to stop reporting on every nut cake as if it is representative of America.

JBLAST2000, It was called "Piss Christ". Piss Christ is a 1987 photograph by photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition,[1] which is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects.

The piece caused a scandal when it was exhibited in 1989, with detractors, including United States Senators Al D'Amato and Jesse Helms, outraged that Serrano received $15,000 for the work, part of it from the taxpayer-funded National Endowment for the Arts. Serrano received death threats and hate mail, and lost grants due to the controversy.[8] The work was vandalized at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, and gallery officials reported receiving death threats in response to Piss Christ.[9] Supporters argued the controversy over Piss Christ is an issue of artistic freedom and freedom of speech.
Others alleged that the government funding of Piss Christ violated separation of church and state.[10][11]
Sister Wendy Beckett, an art critic and Catholic nun, stated in a television interview with Bill Moyers that she regarded the work as not blasphemous but a statement on "what we have done to Christ": that is, the way contemporary society has come to regard Christ and the values he represents.

There's nothing more intolerant than America's Racist White Right. Currently there are more than 900 explicitly White, Hate groups in America. Republicans and the Tea Party have facilitated their assent to the Big Stage. Which means the Racist White Right has an even bigger sentimental following. No one is fooled anymore by the so-called Principled, honor, my America, Good American, Wink Wink! anymore. Muslims do have to be accountable for their lack of core Principle as well. There were hardly any at the counter rally to the Glenn Beck propaganda on MLK's birthday, or a joint statement from Muslim leadership showing that they understand the insult to African Americans. Christians and Muslims, pull each others teeth out!

Really Dr. Khan, there are hundreds of millions of Korans all around the world, burning one or two, or two hundred is not going to have one whit of impact on anyone or anything. I am a Muslim, and while I appreciate the sincere outpouring of support from non-Muslims in trying to prevent this from happening, I say to all of you: GET OVER IT! The Muslim community internationally has become far, far too defensive and easily insulted for its own good. At least those of us in the US and UK have learned to laugh at ourselves and to recognize that symbolic activities, like marching, or burning books, are just that: symbolic. Like a angry word in a conversation, no one really means them, they just help to make a point. The very concept of freedom of speech means that we all need to be tolerant of anyone's speech, even if it is acted out rather than said.

Every time you hear a bigot teabagger tell you he's not racist or hateful, just remember that this is but one in a long line of events that prove otherwise. It's 100% about white, i've got mine, and f***you trying to get yours. You teabagging scum can all go to hell.

The Quran burning: sign of things to come?

The "things" are here and have been for a long time.

Some leftists Christian hater put an upside down crucifix in a jar of urine and called it art. And the leftists at NEA even funded it with Tax payers money and even more leftist Christian haters put it on display.

The leftists Christian haters have been here for a long time...

No one has said they can't build their mosque in New York on legal grounds, but pleaded with them to have tolerance and consideration for the feelings of others. They ignore this. As is their right.

But the same right that they claim also protects this pastor. The same freedom of religion that the Moslems claim in New York aslo protects the freedom of religion of the pastor in Florida. Moslems can plea for them to have tolerance and consideration for the feelings of other Moslems, but the pastor does not have to do that.

The Moslems have cast the first stone.

By the way, the burning of the Koran cannot happen except with the will of God. If Moslems all claim to submit to God's will, they must accept that this cannot be done unless He wills it. To protest afterwards is to protest against something God has allowed to happen, and this is apostasy.

I'm opposed to book burnings in general, but there are a couple of statements that bother me:

"I would rather burn in fire myself, than watch a Quran burn."

"In the past few years alone so many churches have been desecrated in the Muslim World, many missionaries were murdered, nuns stabbed to death and the worst of all, the 1500 year old Buddhas of Bamiyan were intentionally dynamited."

When religious symbols are more important than people's, that's a very bad sign. That shows that priorities are seriously messed up.

Ironically, that applies equally to Terry Jones.

someone decided that it "Piss Christ" was a brilliant piece of artisitc expression

I don't know the motive of the artist, while Terry Jones is open about hating Islam and Muslims. I want to hear the artist's own justification before assuming that the artist hates Christianity and Christians. I know of another work that shows a crucified Santa, intended to protest the commercialization of the religious holiday.

This is the problem with muslims/islam - instead of recognizing free speech, they claim it's "torture."

islam is the most intolerant religion/culture there is - stop pushing your beliefs on the rest of us. If we want to burn the koran or take muhammad's name in vain, we can do it.

You would find others being more tolerant of islam when you learn tolerance yourselves.

Burning the Koran is a horrible, despicable thing to do. Instead, you should tear out the pages and wipe your rear end with it like I do. It's about the only peaceful use I've ever found for that book.

you fail to give a single solitary good reason to follow the "golden-rule" outside an interpersonal context. or, indeed, at all times within that context.

Since the principle of the Golden Rule is about interpersonal relations, it would have no meaning in another context such as a solitary one. The reason for the principle is to help others and to avoid harming others. If person A is being hypocritical in his treatment of person B, it would still be wrong for B to be hypocritical toward A in return.

If a Muslim fanatic were to burn a Bible, I can imagine a Christian so enraged as to want to burn a Koran in response. But that sounds like cliquish teenagers withholding party invitations out of spite. I would hope that the Christian in that situation would see himself as above that kind of childish behavior.

I just wonder if any of the crowd shedding crocodile tears at the prospect of the desecration of the Koran were similarly moved when someone decided that it "Piss Christ" was a brilliant piece of artisitc expression. As I recall, the folks at the Post and the Times all came down solidly on the side of free expression in that debate!

Respect is important, but books can be reprinted by anyone while a person who has died cannot be brought back to life by anyone.

Are you the last letter that you have written? Do you want that paper considered of equal value to you yourself?

Considering an object as equal to a human life is one step away from considering an object as equal to God, and that is idol worship. There is nothing pleasing to God about that.

I would enjoy watching Korans burning on live TV, next to my dog, eating a hot dog, and drinking a beer.

The one Koran I had a few years ago, I threw down the garbage chute of my old building. If I still had it, I'd burn it in solidarity.

Linguine33 refuses to use his noodle. Christianity was violent 700 years ago and Islam is younger than Christianity, so it's ok for Muslms to be violent now? He says it's ok for Muslims to not learn any lessons from history. Sad.

While book burning has nothing to recommend about it....

.......islam started this war

Where a war goes once started is on those who started it........

tweetthis, it's more than just a few Muslim countries aligning with Hitler. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was the only non-German named in the Nuremberg trials. Why? Because, as a friend of Hitler, he went to the Balkans and organized Muslim SS troops.

In addition, after the war, the first Arabic version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were published when Nazi refugees were given sanctuary in Cairo by the sympathetic government.

1. Rather than consider whether it is OK for us (whoever that is) to burn a bible equally as a koran, what would be said if an American Moslem burned a bible?
2. Islam is 700 years behind Christianity and always will be, so give them a chance to mellow out a bit. Think upon what is was like to be a Catholic (or worse, a non-catholic) in 1400.
3. Is it still a holy Bible after getting tossed into a filthy hotel drawer?

Any American who burns a Koran stokes the fires that destroy relationship building and endangers all American troops serving in the middle east. Are we so stupid that we will allow a single misguided soul posing as a small flock minister to ignite what could become World War III?

Oh come now. This isn't a state-supported book burning, nor is it sanctioned by any political party. It's just a little group of wingnuts who have discovered how to attract some attention. Surely we have had enough whining and hand-wringing over the incident.

How many times have we been told that violence deeds commited in the name of Islam do not compromise the entire Islam but only the individuals who were responsible for it? Billions of times. So, if we accept this being true, the fault of the Quaran burning (if any) will only affect the individuals who made it. Why all this fuss now? Why are we all forced to accept responsability? Seems that fair?

As I recall, a number of muslim led countries aligned with the Nazi's. I'm not sure what to make of your comparison. ?

Obviously the man behind this book burning is wanked. He belongs among the violent and angry mobs we see on tv. Not in the United States. But, due to free speech - people like this, people like the KKK, people like Larry Flint, & pornographers and others who offer nothing of use to mankind. He should burn his bible while he's at it, he's obviously not reading it. They all get their say AND their opportunity to live their lives as they see fit.

This taking offense and NEVER forgetting... THIS is the cause of war. Ignore him and he'll go away. But the OFFENSE and the enormous press inflame you and the nations who don't stop at burning bibles, but burn the churches down around the men women and children at worship.

Somebody needs to stop. Perhaps it would stop if you and your offense with a physical BOOK offerred more respect to the human beings around you then to a paper product.

ALL religions believe their books are God's word alone. Your statement is your opinion - but to publish that as though it were fact - THE ONE and ONLY word of God - when its what they all believe?

Do you wish to find peace and truth or does this entire article not perpetuate the same kind of persecution, one sided - well lies - your book isnt the ONLY one its believers feel is God's word alone and you know that, yet you speak otherwise.

This WAS america. Everyone used to have the right to have opinions here. When your islamic led countries burn its flags - and chant death to america in the streets it doesn't make front page news. Now when the same kind of hatred is exercised for some reason its front page news now. but now - mistakenly the U.S. press is against its own freedoms for some reason...

That's too bad, not that he should burn the books - he's an ignorant individual - but its bad that our press no longer supports his right to exercise his constitutional right. THAT is bad. This crazy person burning your books won't bring a holocaust - but a loss of freedom of speech will.

I would like to TALK pastor Jones OUT of his plan. I've seen the interview with him on TV and can see where his decision is coming from: acknowledging the fact that 9/11 terrorists took their ideas not from the Bible but from the pages of Koran, we also know that these hijackers were radicalized in the German mosque. This is his way of protesting the mass murder of innocent people in the name of Islam. His indignation is understandable, the tools are wrong. America stands against radical actions of all kinds. Having your Constitutional right doesn't make it right. You made your point, please DON'T DO IT!!!

"All the religions of peace.

Fighting to the death."
SearingTruth

A Future of the Brave

A Danish cartoonist publishes images of Mohammed. Those images aren't upsetting enough, so Muslims draw and add a few, release the grouping and shout in anger. Global protests ensue. Violent riots declaring it's anathema to link Islam to violence. The irony is missed by Muslim leaders.

More importantly, there's not a single "moderate" Muslim who organizes a major protest for Freedom of Speech. Not one group that says "It's abhorrent to us, that that will happen in a free society". Not one.

Meanwhile, violent, racist and derogatory cartoons, columns, tv shows and other programming by government controlled media on all Muslim countries continues to spew hatred against Christians, Jews, Hindus and Budhhists. Again, the "moderate" Muslims are silent.

Yes, I think the guy is foolish for burning books. However, that is his right. He paid for them. His followers paid for them. They deprive no Muslim of the Koran.

However, we should all give in to the Umma, become good little dhimmis and allow Muslims to define everything that is right or wrong with society. After all, that's what mainstream Islam demands. "Mainstream?" you ask. You think that's only radical?

Then explain the OIC. The Organization of the Islamic Conferences is an official group representing the 57 Muslim majority and plurality nations. They openly reject the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In it's place, they support the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam. That states clearly that the only rights people have are the ones granted to them by Muslims according to Sharia Law.

That is mainstream Islam.

"On May 10th, 1933 the Nazis burned
25,000 books -- including those written
by Jewish poet Heinrich Heine..."

Yes, the Nazis were burning poetry.
Can anyone really equate burning poetry
books with burning Mein Kampf~?!?
Well, the Koran is far more bloodthirsty
than Mein Kampf. And has been far
more devastating by its influence upon
the world. Can anyone hope to deny
this fact when the victims of the Koran's
venom for all the centuries Islam has
existed are in the hundreds of million?
Can anyone hope to deny it when the
victims of Islam just only in today's
world number the 1.2 million Armenians,
millions of Bangladeshis, countless
thousands in Darfur, Kashmire, Sudan,
Central Africa... the list is endless!
Everywhere there are Muslims on this
earth (incluging here in the United States:
remember 9/11?) they are brutalizing,
raping, enslaving, and murdering non-
Muslims and each other alike... all at
the exhortations to be found in the Koran!

http://islamisbad.com

To equate the Nazis burning poetry
books, beautiful as the poetry was and
evil as the Nazis were, with burning
the Koran, the most bloodthirsty book
ever written by a homicidal maniac,
is truly laughing over the graves of
the Koran's millions of victims--O wait,
you also want to build a monument to
Islam over the graves of the 9/11
murdered on the orders in the Koran!
So it's par for the course for Muslims.

The Koran is a vicious book filled with
incitement to murder, genocide, world-
domination & enslavement both of the
human spirit and of humanity itself.
Every copy of it should be burned
everywhere it's available by every
decent human being who can get his
hands on it. The only non-Muslims
who foolishly defend it as some sort
of "religious" sacred book are those
who have never bothered to read
through it... and then understand that
EVERY LAST MUSLIM ON EARTH takes
its viciousness seriously! If ever they do
read it, and understand its implications
as they watch the carnage perpetrated
by Muslims against humanity, they
shall be stunned: shocked quite beyond
imagining once they realize that all
Muslims consider it the word of God...
justifying their unending slaughter
of the innocents.

I understand how, as a Muslim, you
wish to deceive non-Muslims (it's in
the Koran). But I will never understand
how, watching all around them the
unending butchery inspired directly
by the Koran, ANY non-Muslim could
oppose its being burned, every last
copy of it, out of existence!

S D Rodrian
http://sdrodrian.com

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As an atheist, I think all 'holy books' should be burned and forgotten. But right now, Koran is the one book I want to burn and I'm out to Border's to get ready for 9/11.

There is a God that will defend his Holy book and any idiotic actions by this Pasteur will only influence my judgment that the USA needs to invest more money in its educational system not in wars and the military complex infrastructure.
If this Pasteur was educated eniugh to know about other faiths and to appreciate this diversity, he wouldnt do such immature act. Time to love, to educate and to work harder to spread the true values of Islam that of peace, tolerance and a faith with more 1500 years of history that surpasses the history of any US citizen. I am sure this faith and its followers (more than 1.6 billions in the 4 corners of the world who are from different ethnicities, social classes, races, gender and cultures and proud to belong to Islam) know that there is a GOD that will protect the messsge of PEACE represented by the significant majority not by the extremism of the handful non significant few.

I hope Mr. Kahn (and all newly arrived muslims) move back to whatever sh*thole country they're from.

America has absolutely no need for muslims, lets stop immigration from muslim countries once and for all.

What's the story on this guy getting kicked out of Germany for trying to start a cult following ala Jim Jones and David Koresh?

Mr.Muqtedar Khan
"Holy Quran, the only book in the entire heritage of humanity that claims to be solely the word of God"

Your statement is idiotic. If God wanted to send us any 'Word' he could have etched it in human brain.
God don't need a mid eastern child rapist as a middle man.

Univ of Delaware should fire you. Dept of Islamic studies should be a tool of objective study of islam with its good and bad points. It should not be 'Ah what a wonderful islam is' type of propaganda.

Watching Muslims burn my flag on a daily basis "singes my heart". Too bad for me, they have the free speech right to do that.

If your heart is "singed" by some nutjob burning a few pieces of paper, perhaps this is not the right country for you.

Where's the tolerance for this church's decision to not tolerate another religion?

Hypocrisy thrives.

This doesn't "singe" my heart one bit. Watching the idiots in the middle east burn our flag moves me more than getting rid of religious tomes.

Books written by man to elevate themselves above other men in the name of mythical gods so that they can seem important.

How lame.

LorneG wrote:

Congratulations ColonelPanic you are the reason why American politics are in such poor shape. The lack of respect for ideas of others on both sides of the political divide has turned what was once a respectable difference in which bipartisan efforts were successful into a giant shouting match of venom and name calling.

As for this column. State sponsored book burning is deplorable, but this is an act of speech of a relatively small group of men. It should be allowed just like a group would be allowed to burn a stack of bibles or a pile of American flags. Maybe Muslims should look on it as a reflection of how their own actions has caused the world to view them. The public face of the Muslim world has been clerics calling for the death of people over cartoons, the oppression and stoning of women and girls, and radicals who have been strapping explosives to themselves and murdering hundreds of innocents.

Posted by: LorneG | September 7, 2010 2:41 PM

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Spot on by LorneG.

And what rational mind is not genuinely mystified at the consistently misplaced priorities of the Muslim faith community at large?

This exercise in freedom, although offensive to some, is not the problem. The problem... lies in a common exercise in intolerance the world is exposed to, often in the form of violence. And its not coming from Churches in America. Fatwa that for a change.

Always the Muslims against other religions though, isn't it. Muslims attack Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Bahais. By the way "professor" you forgot to mention the Hindus. Ask any Indian person what wonderful, peaceful neighbors the Muslims make.

Its stupid to do this....there's no intelligent reason for doing it...If one Soldier,man or woman is killed because of it,I want him to go to their funeral and explain to the family why, he did this.

Nonsense. "...cruel and unusual punishment," by burning a Kuran? It is a book--and not very well written. That part of the Constitution applies to PEOPLE, not inanimate objects like a book. Where were you when the Taliban blew up the beautiful Buddha statues at Bamiyan? The Kuran is not special and neither is Muhammed.

It is going to be a rough ride, but as Spain showed in 1492, Islam is eventually defeated.

Muqtedar Khan ... honestly? At the University of Delaware? Time to grow up fast. This country allows free expressions like book burnings by private citizens. You and yours do not have the right to have your book respected.

We have a word for folks with "unimaginable" concern for a book: "Nuts."

You also compared a small church acting alone to Nazi Germany's book burnings. I guess you're suggesting that if the government permits the burning, it makes the US evil as well. That sounds like the reasoning of a terrorist.

And Mr Khan is supposed to be moderate. This article shows ambivalence and short of giving excuses for Muslims around the world to burn US flags.

Yeah, Osama, if you are listening. Don't bomb New York next time. Head to this morons town.

And Congress, if you are out there...you better not be sending any Homeland Security dollars to this knuckleheads state.

Like a big mouth on the playground who is talking smack....he needs to get his a$$ kicked.

LMFAO. you treat others the way you want to be treated BECAUSE you think they will reciprocate!!
Wrong. We have no control over others, whether they are individuals or nations. We can condemn their actions when they hurt others, but we have control only over our own decisions and not theirs. What you suggest sounds very much like being kind to people just to get some type of reward.
if we can't expect reciprosity from then surely they cannot expect something much more generous than the mere reciprocity that they deny us.
That sounds exactly how some children who don't understand the Golden Rule principle try to invert it to their advantage. "He took my toy, so he must want me to take his toy, too!"
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well, its hard to respond to nonsense. you fail to give a single solitary good reason to follow the "golden-rule" outside an interpersonal context. or, indeed, at all times within that context.

you sound like someone who thinks what they think and, even though its nonsense, think everyone should agree with you.

robert1969, there are several other countries in the world where people enjoy freedom of speech and the ability to build worship centers and burn religious books.

You just need to look beyond your borders to other members of the G8.

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These are both examples of why America remains the greatest country the world has ever known. Where else does freedom like that which is being displayed exist?

Posted by: robert1969 | September 8, 2010 1:43 PM

Speaking of Muslim desecration:

In Lebanon, Muslims dig up Christians from their graves and toss their remains around in the streets.

Christians love the Bible too, but generally do not revere the actual physical book. So it really is something beyond our western understanding that someone should put so much value in a physical object. The words themselves are important and will not disappear, but the book they are printed in is simply bound paper. I think Muslims really need to lighten up and not be so easily offended, however, one could say that this is not in their history or culture.

Quaran... "the only book in the entire heritage of humanity that claims to be solely the word of God." Please, I'm not for burning books but 'claims' aside, this is sheer hypocrisy. Worshiping a book is idolatry, and the author wouldn't blink an eye at the burning of a Bible.

Small problem kenk3..... Americans want their oil and do not seem ready to stop their dependency on it. So apparently you do need to get along with Muslims.

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There's absolutely no reason that we need to get along with muslims.

Let's leave their lands and prevent any muslims from visiting or settling here.

Problem solved.

Posted by: kenk3 | September 8, 2010 1:04 PM

As a symbolic act, it is like putting dog poop in a paper bag and setting it on fire on somebody's porch and then running away. Or like burning disco records.

Excellent description and comparison. Although plenty of music fans didn't like disco for a variety of reasons, much of the protests and backlash (not all of it) was driven by homophobia and racism.

Mr. Khan is right that the Koran burning on 9/11 would cause anger and pain against the Muslim world. This can be applied to the malicious act of building a Mosque near ground zero. Both acts are supported by the Constitution. Further more Islam regularly destroys Bibles, Churches including forced conversion for centuries.

If your allowed to burn the bible in this country, then your certainly allowed to burn the Koran. Get over it.

Imam Rauf has the right to put up his community center.

Terry Nolan has the right to burn whatever books he chooses.

Whether either is a good idea is limited to opinion, none of which really matters much. Sometimes people are so focused on their rights they forget about the responsibilities that come with it, but that's the way of things.

These are both examples of why America remains the greatest country the world has ever known. Where else does freedom like that which is being displayed exist?

Classic hate coupled to ignorance and fire talking bible thumping wingnuts.

Let f.ucking evangelical hypocrite burn the Koran. But, if any American is killed as a result of the action of this stupid right-winger....prosecute the MF for inciting a crowd, and take Piggy Palin with him.

This burning of the Koran by a "pastor" in Florida is the kind of prank that is typical of third-graders. As a symbolic act, it is like putting dog poop in a paper bag and setting it on fire on somebody's porch and then running away. Or like burning disco records. A simple-minded act of revenge designed only to infuriate.

Most religions have their extremists, but you have to admit Islam has more than its fair share. Some of this is because Islam naturally tends towards literalism and fundamentalism (belief that the Koran is literally the word of God "word for word" doesn't lend itself to contextual reinterpretation), some of it is cultural, some of it relates to recent geopolitics.

Islam needs to 'grow up' and acknowledge other faiths (or lack of any faith) as being valid. Christians were nearly as bad as Muslims in the middle ages, but a few kooks notwithstanding, have moved past the idea of establishing a global theocracy and ruling the world and converting everyone to their particular brand of faith. If we take the Hebrew Tanakh at face, the Jews were pretty nasty to their sundry enemies (guilty of having different gods and tribal folkways) way back in the day. There are extremist Hindus today (the Kar Sevaks), but their movement is largely a counterreaction to Islamic extremism in India. The are even some suidice-bombing Buddhist extremists in Sri Lanka.

I think we'd be better off with no religions at all, but since that's not going to happen, they should at least endeavor to tolerate each other. Acknowledge that religious (or secular) symbols are just that, symbols, not something worth dying or killing for.

"All hell will break lose if this happens.
All u people can say what u want to but the bottom line is if they go ahead with it,it will 25% of the world population vs USA.For the sake of peace and your own security i beg u people no to go ahead with it.If u americans go ahead with it even afghan and pakistan army will start disobeying their leaders and will start giving unequivocal supports to taliban.For your own sake people, for your own survival for once break the constitution and stop this because muslims will go crazy.

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We should burn your filthy book if for no other reason than the offense it will give to followers of the religion of peace like yourself. YOU had better hope that Americans and hundreds of millions of non-Muslims around the world are not radicalized to deal with the religion of peace once and for all. Burn baby burn.

The best thing we can do is to get along with one another in spite of the misdeeds of people who presume to "lead" us.

POSTED BY: NILE_LISZT | SEPTEMBER 8, 2010 10:28 AM

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There's absolutely no reason that we need to get along with muslims.

Let's leave their lands and prevent any muslims from visiting or settling here.

Problem solved.

I don't like banning or burning any book. But, this demonstration makes a point: we are fed up with Islam being shoved down our throat. Islam cannot be trusted to embrace and live in our community, follow our laws, treat the women in our country with respect, treat other religious views with respect and vigorously defend America from Islamic extremism. This has never, and never will, happen.
As for this book burning enraging the Islamic world, we Americans have fought many enemies who have attacked and threatened us. We can and will do it again if needs be.

Islam is a religion of peace. I am positive nothing will happen to this ignorant man for exercising his right of free speech.

Conservatives are turning this country into Nazi Germany.

All hell will break lose if this happens.
All u people can say what u want to but the bottom line is if they go ahead with it,it will 25% of the world population vs USA.For the sake of peace and your own security i beg u people no to go ahead with it.If u americans go ahead with it even afghan and pakistan army will start disobeying their leaders and will start giving unequivocal supports to taliban.For your own sake people, for your own survival for once break the constitution and stop this because muslims will go crazy.

LMFAO. you treat others the way you want to be treated BECAUSE you think they will reciprocate!!

Wrong. We have no control over others, whether they are individuals or nations. We can condemn their actions when they hurt others, but we have control only over our own decisions and not theirs. What you suggest sounds very much like being kind to people just to get some type of reward.

if we can't expect reciprosity from then surely they cannot expect something much more generous than the mere reciprocity that they deny us.

That sounds exactly how some children who don't understand the Golden Rule principle try to invert it to their advantage. "He took my toy, so he must want me to take his toy, too!"

it's the hypocrisy stupid.

That's irrelevant, because issues like this are about us as individuals and groups treating others the way we want to be treated. We can't expect reciprocal treatment, whether it's someone sitting next to us on Metro or a nation halfway around the world.
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LMFAO. you treat others the way you want to be treated BECAUSE you think they will reciprocate!! if we can't expect reciprosity from then surely they cannot expect something much more generous than the mere reciprocity that they deny us.

seriously, congrats on giving one of the most illogical comments even to grace an internet message board.

american muslim trying to blow up times' square - sign of things to come?

sharia law being applied in courts in britain - sign of things to come?

9/11 - sign of things to come?

american muslim citizen trying to blow up time's square - sign of things to come?

sharia courts in britian - sign of things to come?

The best thing we can do is to get along with one another in spite of the misdeeds of people who presume to "lead" us.

Why is it okay for other countries to burn our flag or spit on our constitution or burn pictures of our leaders but as soon as we even talk about doing something wrong to their way of life, they want war.

That's irrelevant, because issues like this are about us as individuals and groups treating others the way we want to be treated. We can't expect reciprocal treatment, whether it's someone sitting next to us on Metro or a nation halfway around the world. I know of no American who says it's right for other nations to burn our flag. And if they do, that wouldn't make it right for us to burn their flags.

First of all let's get the facts straight. The Bible is the only word of God. Second, I disagree 100% with what this idiot in Florida is going to do but I didsagree 100% when people burn the US flag. Why is it okay for other countries to burn our flag or spit on our constitution or burn pictures of our leaders but as soon as we even talk about doing something wrong to their way of life, they want war. Although I wouldn't agree nor endorse it, I hope the self proclaimed pastor takes a crap on the book before he burns it.

From my experience, much of the bashing of Islam and Muslims seems to be disguised bashing of Arabs. Or at least many of the bashers can't seem to tell the difference. It's similar to how antagonism toward Catholics in America in the 1920s was usually prejudice toward Irish and Italian and Polish immigrants.

The issue here is not the contents of the Bible and the Koran, since there are many parts of the books that I find repugnant (such as Leviticus). The issue is not necessarily that burning the books will offend the sensibilities of the people who believe in them. The issue is the repulsive motivation for burning them. It's not to express displeasure with the contents, but to express hatred of the people who believe in the books.

The evangelical Christian blogger below makes the point that Christians who bash Muslims are acting very unchristian:

http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2010/09/the-scandal-of-the-evangelical-mosk.html

Is this the shape of things to come? YES! The right sees how scapegoating minorities works politically, especially in hard economic times. It whips the public into a frenzy, and goads them into voting their emotions.

It worked in 1933 in Germany, and it's working now in the US. A keen student of history like Newt Gingrich knows this lesson of history full well.

And he's got the propaganda machine to do it. Hitler had Goebbels. Newt has Rush's Drug Radio, Fox News, Hannity, et al.

Would Christ burn a Quran? Somehow I doubt it unless my Sunday school teacher was way off the mark. Quran burning doesn't seem compatible with any of Christ's teachings as they were explained to me.

I can understand where the author is coming from up to a point because it's difficult to watch something you love and believe in be destroyed. They are going to burn something that is sacred to a lot of people and that, although legal, is offensive no matter how you look at it. I guess you have to tell yourself that although they can destroy words on a page they can't destroy the words themselves or the meaning behind them. Nevertheless I worry about the reaction to this. This group has to know they are inciting people and they seem to be reveling in that. This is going to be a very ugly event and I dread it.

This is the beautiful thing about living in the United States of America: persons, regardless of their race, color, creed, religious preference, and political affiliation, bask in the freedoms/ rights the Constitution provides. It is one of the main reasons so many people immigrate to America every year.

The Constitution of the United States of America allows/ gives/ provides Mr. Terry Jones the fundamental or rather basic right to burn that bible or any other book he sees fit. Just like it is his right, as well as any other person in the United States, citizen or not, to burn our nation's flag - a symbol as old as our nation that Americans have time and again fought, bled, and died for.

In my opinion, it is these basic rights that make our nation the greatest nation in the world.

While the actions of what Mr. Jones are not popular among many, it is his right to express himself, guaranteed to him through the constitution and upheld by the Supreme Court. It is this right, along with many others, that our soldiers fight for.

The Constitution does not have an asterisks mark next the 1st amendment stating,"Only when popular and not offensive..."

As for the DoD saying it will put our soldiers in harms way, just an FYI-our SM's serving in OEF/ OIF are ALREADY in harms way. That is why we get an Hazardous Duty Pay and a tax free incentive while deployed.

I've served all over the world and seen the atrocities man has committed. From the mass graves in Sebrenica to young, young children in Sierra Leone missing arms, hands, legs.

I've served twice in Afghanistan and I am a Purple Heart recipient; please don't tell me that my service was needed because the political climate dictated sending/ and voicing support for the troops was good for an election/ reelection campaign.

"the only book in the entire heritage of humanity that claims to be solely the word of God."

Actually Christians believe the same crap.

I am concerned by the silence of the Evangelical churches and their failure to condemn such stupidity and hate mongering.

On September 11, 2010, some misguided Americans plan to burn the Holy Quran, the only book in the entire heritage of humanity that claims to be solely the word of God.

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The author is very clever I give him that. He slyly inserts his Muslim supremacy garbage into his article and masks it as fact.

I went to Catholic School and we were also taught the Bible was the word of God.

Last Thurday morning, I saw a hijab-covered woman walking with an obese (middle-eastern) husband.

Shouldn't the husband of been covered up? Why does he get to walk around freely (disgusting) while his wife feels the need to cover herself?

Do we need people like that? The husband and Mr. Kahn need to go back to whatever sh*thole country they were born.

America is the land of free speech. The highest court in the land says we must even allow flag burning, which certainly does not sit well with a majority.

So, yes, there will be further Koran desecrations. The Muslim world will have to learn a bit of tolerance itself. Otherwise, they can riot and kill each other in their own countries, or they can attack us, which will provoke a response that will make casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan look like no casualties at all.

POSTED BY: BLOOMMARKO4 | SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 8:41 PM

Book burning is an evil act no matter whose book is burnt.

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Since you're an observant Jew, you'd really be against a mass burning of "Mein Kampf"?

Really?

Burn the hate filled Koran. Burn all of them. Throw all the moslems in jail for sedition.

Land of Freedom and human rights. This kind showing the emotions, do you think there are any differences between this pastor and bin ladan. This one is a brand new one and seemingly more modern. His decision is because of ignorance whether about the Quran containing and about the even the Bible. Considering no religious thought it is not a human kind act to insult the others. This act is an insult to the Muslim. No matter what they did. If you believe they are wrong so why do you act like them?

Posted by: whoismyenemyandwhy:
“Islam is nazism x 200,000. Islam has one mission - world domination. . . .”

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Israel’s elimination and replacement of Palestinians is MUCH more Nazi-like than Islam.
Also, Pastor Terry Jones and his followers actually have the same mission that you ascribe to Islam - - that is THEY (being ignoramuses) actually believe that Jesus is coming to earth (from where?) to establish HIS DOMINATION and send ALL (including children) who don’t accept him as their personal Lord and Savior into everlasting torment!

Bottom line: the world would be much more peaceful if it’s billion’s of stupid inhabitants realized that ALL concepts of GOD are MANMADE! Not Nobody-Not No how knows what, who or even if God exists, AND not Nobody-Not No how can speak for God! ALL human beings are mere people and none should be accepted as having self-proclaimed Supernatural connections. It just ain’t so. That includes the Pope as well as Terry Jones, Pat Robertson, Jimmy Swaggart, All Muslim religious leaders, etc. AD INFINITUM.

Don't pay attention to the hate filled slime who support this kind of thing. They make a great deal of noise. But this is the United States. Most of us know that book burning is completely contrary to American values and we detest anyone who would do it.

The Muslims should relax and enjoy the free publicity. The book is just one book made of paper. There are millions, maybe billions more. Burn a Bible if it makes you feel better. But don't blow people up. That's just plain rude. Maybe if you stopped exploding folks, we may grow to like you a little bit, who knows.

1. I HARDLY think the pastor of a quirky micro-group "church" can be compared to government-endorsed censorship and book burning by the Nazi regime. It's this kind of melodrama that makes the moderate middle roll their eyes and say "whatever."

2. In the meantime, it's still the law in many Muslim nations, Saudi Arabia included, not to burn books, but certainly to ban them and behead those who read them. So I'm not really interested in a national lecture from this guy when 1 guy in Florida wants to burn some books and 300 million Americans won't even notice.

Book burning is an evil act no matter whose book is burnt. Burning a book that others consider holy is tantamount to burning the people who believe in it. That, I think, is the message Dr. Khan is trying to convey.

As an observant Jew, well schooled in the history of the Nazis, I cannot avoid seeing parallels between the egregious desecration about to take place in Florida and the desecrations of the Nazi era. Both are grounded in hatred and fear of 'the other', paranoia in short.

Fearful people frequently transform their fears into fearsome acts. The history of the Crusades testifies to the effects of mobocracy among religious zealots. I hope and pray that the book burning will not ignite more than books in a spasm of destruction.

Islam is nazism x 200,000.
Islam has one mission - world domination. That is when the so called prophet, or pedophyle, will return. The remaining infidels will then be killed and the world will be 100 percent islamic.

The difference between nazism and islam?
One is a government that doesn't take its orders from god and doesn't believe in a god. Nazism took its orders from hitler, who doesn't claim to be a prophet.

Islam? Followers take their orders from the Quran,which for those who believe it to be true,is the True Word Of God, according to Muhammud, its so called prophet.

The Quran is instructional in telling its readers or followers to kill all unbelevers. Offer the chance to convert to islam, or die.? The goal? World Domination.
Then the prophet, or pedophyle will return and then the remaining infidels will be killed.

Tell me, so called moderate muslims? Am i lying?

America is sick with right wingers. Sad.

Mr Khan wrote:
"I would rather burn in fire myself, than watch a Quran burn."

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What a coincidence, I would even pay money to see that happen.

Muqtedar Khan

You wrote, "Quran attests that it was sent, not to Muslims, but to the entire humanity"

The god of islam sent "words in a book".

God sent Himself.

As I have said previously, God is neither a Male, a Female nor a It but did become a Him when God became Incarnate in a Jew named Jesus.

The god of islam has tried and continues to try to hyjack God-Incarnate and say that God-Incarnate is his prophet whereas Jesus has told us that satan is a liar and a thief.

The Quran is about "world domination" and it seems pretty evident in this article that this is Muqtedar Khan's view also.

Jesus, Himself, said, "My Kingdom is not of this world", even tho there have been many a "Christian" that has tried to set up a "theocracy" on this planet, this is not what Jesus was about, not even close.

If people would use their eyes and ears to listen and see, rather than to bury them with the rest of their head in the sand, it should be obvious that the "islamization of the world" under "sharia law" is well under way.

As I have said before, God is a searcher of hearts and minds, not of religious affiliations or lack thereof so it doesn't matter what "religion" or even if one has a religion.

It does matter what one does and why one does it and what one knows.

God is not the egotistical maniac that some seem to think God to be.

God is not only a Trinity but is a Being of Pure Love and God's Plan is for all and God becoming One of us is just part of God's unfolding Plan which will come to Fruition.

Take care, be ready.

Sincerely, Thomas Paul Moses Baum.

What a huge contrast that a Christina like me is to the a Muslim like this author. One, the he emphasizes that the actual physical book itself is so dear to him, not his god. And that burning this object would cause unimaginable pain to him and his fellow Muslims. As a Christian, I worship Jesus Christ, not the Bible. The Bible is simply a book that is been copied and printed for me to read. What is important is the message of the Gospel: salvation through Christ Jesus alone. Anyone can burn the Bible and I would not care one bit. In fact, many people have done it. You don't see that incite massive violence and rage as you see here from Muslims.

Where is Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck's wisdom when we need it? Oh yea, we all know what remaining silent means...

Mr. Khan states: "some misguided Americans plan to burn the Holy Quran, the only book in the entire heritage of humanity that claims to be solely the word of God." This statement alone sets the tone that the Quran is the only book that is the word of God. I'm sorry, but my Christian upbringing has taught me that the Holy Bible is also the word of God. However, the Bible is not recognized by Mr. Khan. I do say Kudos for addressing the killing and hateful acts committed by Muslims against Christians, and the bit of introspection is indeed, the purpose of the book burning - not that I condone it in the least.

You were doing OK until you got to: "I would rather burn in fire myself, than watch a Quran burn."

And then I realized you were just a wacko and it wasn't worth bothering to read any further.

WmarkW

I have seen many Korans, written in English. I assume, like the Bible, that it is translated into innumerable languages. And I assume that, like the Bible, when there are quibbles over meaning, people seek to decide what was the meaning in the original language, even though such a discussion could hardly mean anything to anyone who does not know the original language.

The Koran is very, very, very, VERY much like the Bible, in the type of literature that it is and in what it means to people who developed an intense obsessive compulsion over the object of the book, without regard for the meaning of the text that is in the book. I know that Christisn would sdcream bloody murder over this statement, but, alas, it is true.

Muqtedar Khan feels the actual burning of the flames in his heart as a Koran burns, and he would rather be thrown into the fire himself, rather than have a single Koran be burned. Perhaps this is just cultural hyperbole, normal for him, but odd to me, but I can barely grasp such an irrational rant.

If he would rather throw himself into the fire, then why doesn't he? Maybe this is just his peculiar hyperbolic way of expressing his thoughts.

As long as Rove can exploit hapless Glenn Beck Christians who can not see this for the hateful political wedge issue this is, it is a sign of things to come.

After Muslims are gays and Mexicans. Then school teachers and union bosses. After that Democrats and liberals.

How will you respond when they come for you with a bible opened to Leviticus in one hand and a moose rifle in the other?

It's time minorities and liberals started exercising some Second Amendment rights of their own. Elder Beck and Soap Opera Sarah are hell bent on another civil war for their own selfish fortune and fame and their riding Fox News like a banshee from hell to accomplish their goals.

I don't care one way or the other. In an open, democratic society, there is no stopping these behaviors; extremists can speak their minds and are made slaves to their philosophy. In a closed, autocratic or theocratic society these behaviors can be stopped but they are allowed to go on for political and religious purposes; extremists are made slaves of the powerful. I accept this as reality.

Mankind regularly falls into patterns dictated by his most basic instincts of fear and ignorance. It happened yesterday, it happens today and it will happen again tomorrow. We will not change and thus doom ourselves as one more species on this planet that briefly rose, stumbled and fell.

I find the name of the church involved here to be so ironic it is pitiful. Stereotypical evangelical Christian though, no surprise there.

"The Dove World Outreach Center" has certainly lost it's way.

The difference between this Florida book burning and the Nazis' is that Germany also forbade the publication of those books, so that the two actions together prevented anyone from reading them. No one is going to be kept from the Koran in the modern USA.

Also, most Muslims can't even read the Koran because it's not written in a language they understand. They mouth its syllables as if they were gibberish. Hence, the major western reason for opposing book burning -- that it limits the dissemination of ideas -- is flatly inapplicable here.

This guy does not "GET IT!"

He does not understand Western pluralism and liberalism. He does not uderstand symbolic protest and dissent.

Burning a Koran burns his heart and causes him pain. He would rather be thrown into a fire, than a single, mass-produced object, that is easily obtainable and replacable.

This is stark raving lunacy.

He wants Western people to bow down to his sensibilities, but he is cold to the sensibilities of non-Muslims.

This is the problem when two powerful and entrenched religious traditions of steally intolerance, Christianity and Islam, come into contact with each other.

This super intolerant Muslim has no moral justification or credibility for complaining about the intolerance of others who act just like him.

The author of this article writes:
"...the Holy Quran, the only book in the entire heritage of humanity that claims to be solely the word of God."
That is a lie.
The Quran was composed and written by a pedophile conquerer, who elevated the pagan Arab moon god to be the "greatest". It is a book, authored by a human, designed to support the conquest of the world, and the enslavement of other peoples. It is the Islamic "Mein Kampf", and like that book by Hitler, deserves to be burned.
Rushdie was correct when he called it "The Satanic Verses".

The author of this article writes:
"...the Holy Quran, the only book in the entire heritage of humanity that claims to be solely the word of God."
That is a lie.
The Quran was composed and written by a pedophile conquerer, who elevated the pagan Arab moon god to be the "greatest". It is a book, authored by a human, designed to support the conquest of the world, and the enslavement of other peoples. It is the Islamic "Mein Kampf", and like that book by Hitler, deserves to be burned.
Rushdie was correct when he called it "The Satanic Verses".

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... with regards to my previous post, I do not support book burning, and I do not support burning Korans, to make a symolic point, or for any other reason.

I am just a little tired of this hypocrisy. And then the extreme drama of this guy's statements that he would rather be thrown into the fire, than the Koran; what a completely hysterical thing to say, does not give me any confidence with regards to the rational nature of Islam; there are millions and millions of Korans being printed all of time, so any particular one should be a common as the next, but no, eveidently there is something sacred, not about the words in the bookd, but about the very molecules of the book that make it "enchanted" in some voo-doo, Aztec-ian kind of way.

From now on, this guy has ZERO crediblity with me; he is someone with a pre-Medeival paradigm, hopelessly mired in the twenty-first century.

Respect is earned, and this hyssterical essay is not doing Islam any good; it is squandering away any respect there is yet for Islam.

I think this preacher is a whack job. However, is burning a copy of the Quran so much worse than a photo of a crucifix submerged in a glass of urine? The artist received $15,000 for his efforts and the photo was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition, which is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects. Liberals widely acclaimed it.

"Believe me, there is nothing more precious to Muslims than the Quran, and watching people toss it into fire, will be horrifying. I would rather burn in fire myself, than watch a Quran burn.
I am amazed at how millions of Americans who are decent and honorable can watch this happen. No matter how ugly the act the Constitution permits this, is not an acceptable excuse. The Constitution does not permit this. The Constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishment. For Muslims this is worse than torture."

It's called "Drama Queen;" look it up!

I thought the previous argument about the Islamic Center at Ground Zero was that if it is Constitutional, then matters of good taste, and offense to others should not be considered.

I do not approve of book burning, but they are merely burning copies of the same bookd that has been mass-produced by the milliions; they are not trying to stamp it out, but making a symbolic point.

For crying out loud, a book is a thing; it is disingenuous to pretend that burning it will cause physical pain in your heart.

I don't believe it.

I JUST DONT!!

the headline should rightfully be re-written to read:

"The Quran burning: signs of stupid"

What would it accomplish other than inflaming an already inflamed conflict - a conflict, if my sources are correct, we are there in military force to quell, not inflame?

tell me what other good it would do?

No - I didn't think so.

It's just a load of American stupidity.

Mr Khan

Your trying to tie in what the Nazi's did and what this nut pastor wants to do, but it's an invalid comparison.

The Nazi's burned books written by many, many different authors - Erich Maria Remarque, Ernest Hemingway, H.G. Wells, etc, etc, etc. Hardly the same as burning one book, don't you think?

Anyway, get over it. Feel free to burn a bible if you want - or American flags, Muslims have a lot of experience with that, even though thousands of Americans have died in freeing your brothers...

Mr. Khan, it's just a damn book...

Obviously book burning is bad, and burning of someone's holy book is even worse. Unfortunately, as long as these idiots own the books and don't violate the fire regulations, there is nothing that can be legally done about it. In America, you have the right to do pretty much whatever you want with your own property. It's called freedom, and one of the side effects is that it allows stupid or evil people to say and do things that insult others. It's better than the alternative, under which evil people not only get to insult others, they get to use the government's secret police to torture and murder other people.

There are reasons why democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others, and this is one of them.

Book burning and hateful intolerant comments are wrong from anyone.

The following badly behaved people/groups all share a responsibility:
1. un-Christian Pastor Terry Jones,
2. inflamatory Islamist news org coverage about Palestine, the US, Israel, and...,
3. flag burners on both sides,
4. the Saudi royal family for exporting wahabist extreme views in order to minimize criticism at home,
5. and un-educated people who use the extreme views of a tiny percentage to broadly slander a billion people at once.

General Pretraus is correct. The lunatic Terry Jones will put "evidence" in the hands of extremists and puts the lives of servicemen (including my son) in danger.

I'll say it even if the leaders of both of our major political parties fail to lead by example:
For shame Terry Jones, for shame.

And yes, I'm a conservative.

If Islam o phobias and anti-Islam forces are un-moved of their un-wise decision of "Quran Burning" ceremonies around the USA and Globe on 9/11, many Muslim Organizations are planning to go ahead with their decision to distribute Quran, Bible and the US Constitution free of charge to every one who will attend their brotherhood and unity fairs on the day of Edul-Fitre and 9/11.

Congratulations ColonelPanic you are the reason why American politics are in such poor shape. The lack of respect for ideas of others on both sides of the political divide has turned what was once a respectable difference in which bipartisan efforts were successful into a giant shouting match of venom and name calling.

As for this column. State sponsored book burning is deplorable, but this is an act of speech of a relatively small group of men. It should be allowed just like a group would be allowed to burn a stack of bibles or a pile of American flags. Maybe Muslims should look on it as a reflection of how their own actions has caused the world to view them. The public face of the Muslim world has been clerics calling for the death of people over cartoons, the oppression and stoning of women and girls, and radicals who have been strapping explosives to themselves and murdering hundreds of innocents.

Think of religion as a long fence, with knotholes along it for everyone to peek through to the other side, where there is truth. Line of vision would overlap if you were standing immediately next to some one looking through their knothole. No overlap would occur for someone further down the fence line. The solution is for everyone to look over the top of the fence to all see the truth the same way.

Just like one bad apple spoils the barrel, fanatical sociopaths that call themselves Muslims or Christians are not the norm, and not a part of the mainstream Muslim or Christian (or any other religious) beliefs. Burning any other religion's historical references to their god's word in order to retaliate against the fanatics/sociopaths is not the answer any more than fanatics burning a Bible or our flag would be an answer. It is the same as putting Japanese Americans in camps during WWII; the list could go on.

The book burning idea is egregiously less than true Christian or even Muslim conduct; uneducated people are very dangerous. They become a mindless mob of destruction very quickly. Yet history is destined to repeat itself with the same venom and hate; how did any of it change anything for the better?

Fly your American flag on September 11, and respect those who died here and on foreign soil giving their lives for our freedoms. Stop the cycle of hate.

I really don't care how this affects muslims, that's not my problem.

I care how it affects us, here in America.

Burning books is burning books, no matter how you feel about that book or the people who believe in it.

It's a sign of a religion in decline, that it needs to burn the books of other religions. What's the matter christians, are the muslim lies working better than yours now, is that what's happening here?

How easy it is for you to see how wrong it was when the nazis did this. This is an evil act.

Not one person who wants to read a Quran is going to be denied that opportunity because of this protest in Florida.

This protest is so hurtful to Muslims precisely because they attach such exaggerated to the book's importance. Read it with the slightest critical eye, and it become patently obvious that the greatest intelligence in the universe did not write it, in the language and under the assumption that the customs of 7th century Arabia were a moral code for all mankind for all time.

It's a BOOK, written by human authors under the zeitgeists of their time and place. One quarter of humanity needs to get used to that idea.

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Romans 9:21

Holy books can be used as a weapon to destroy or a balm to heal. Thank you, Dr. Kahn, for taking the higher road. I hope my fellow Americans do the same.

Your comparison of the book burning incidents is completely off mark in this situation. The burning of the Quran in this case is better compared to the burning of the American flag. It is a symbol of the Muslims involved in the 9/11 attacks and not an effort to remove the knowledge contained inside.

This was a disappointing effort on your part as a journalist to insight people that may be more inclined to take your words as fact rather than opinion.

Thank you, Mr. Kahn, for an excellent column, and especially for explaining to non-Muslims like myself just how hurtful this Florida group's actions are.

I have to take exception to one thing, though. As a practitioner of Zen Buddhism, I cannot at all agree that the intentional dynamiting of Afghanistan's Buddhas of Bamiyan is worse than murdering missionaries or stabbing nuns to death. Yes, it was a very deluded act, but any Buddhist will readily stress that the Bamiyan Buddhas ultimately were and always would be heaps of stone, though, granted, heaps of stone that, like the Quran, were cultural treasures for all the world. The destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan is nothing compared with intentionally murdering anyone, whether Christian missionaries, nuns, or otherwise.

"Do not insult their Gods, lest out of ignorance they insult Allah" (6:108).

"Remind your congregations what the Quran tells Muslims about Christians:

"...Forgive them and overlook their misdeeds, for Allah loves those who are kind (Quran 5:13)"

What are you trying to say "professor", that non muslims are ignorant and as your second quote from the quran states.. Being christian is a misdeed.... no other religious text says stuff like this. Thats why islam is the violent vengeful religion it is.

As someone who rejects Islam's treatment of women and girls, including the forced marriages of girls to older men, I also reject intolerance.

As a former historian in German and Russian history, the burning of books is a sign of intolerance, bigotry, and the warning signs of a society in serious trouble. The beginnings of totalitarianism starts with little things. like burning books....

FROM GAINESVILLE FLORIDA

Be it known that the vast, overwhelming majority of Christians and others in the city share the anger at the burning of the Quran. I am somewhat mystified at how the actions of really one man - whose theology doesn't represent Jesus anyway - could end up branding a whole community as anti anything. The actual truth is, that being the home of the University of Florida, the only thing we agree upon is worshiping the Gator football team.

There are demonstrations and religious services planned this weekend to counter the Quran burning.

monty keeling

Mr Kahn wrote:

"The Constitution does not permit this"

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It sure does permit it, this statement alone goes to the Islam is incompatible with the constitution... cruel and unusual punishment to hear about a book burning?

I'm crying for you and your delusional beliefs.

Even in their own eyes, Muslims will always consider themselves Muslims first and people will always be Muslims first and Americans second.

America needs more muslims like Mr. Kahn about as much as we need more bedbugs.

Mr. Kahn,

Congratulations on brainwashing your children since they were in utero.

Your extremism (thinking the Koran is the absolute word of god) is why muslims and the west will never get along.

Also, please go back to whatever s**thole you (or your parents) are from.

Thanks in advance.

This is horrible!!! Book burning is the most evil act I can imagine. It has happened many times before in human history; the burning of books and desecration of landmarks. Two or two hundred wrongs does not make a right.

I hope that two American political parties will condemn this dastardly act. It WILL have consequences, particularly if America's leaders just "shrug their shoulders" and say nothing.

Oh, this book burning is surely a sign of things to come.

In America, there are two basic kinds of people: 1) Those who are greedy and full of hate, we call them Republicans. 2) Those who are for justice, equality and freedom, we call them Democrats.

Republicans have always known that in difficult times Americans turn away from God and turn to hate. This is true with this book burning. If they are not burning books, they'll burn crosses. Their hatred is endless.

I understand this book burning is brought to the world by Fox News, the official broadcast sponsor of the Republican Party.