I am not the biggest fan of Christianity, but I must say they are light-years ahead of Islam when it comes to freedom of expression. I didn’t see any Catholics carrying out holy killings when Marc Grizzard burnt copies of the New Jerusalem Bible last Halloween.
Never heard of Marc Grizzard? About a year ago this wonderful nutjob decided to have a book burning at his church in Canton, North Carolina. He wanted to burn all the versions of the Bible he did not agree with, and apparently his flock thought it was a wonderful idea. They also threw in works from Christian writers they found objectionable, just for kicks.
So how many people do you think died because of this book-burning?
Would you be shocked to find the answer is zero?
I didn’t think so.
So why didn’t Rick Warren (some of his books made the burning pile) show up that fateful day in North Carolina with a mob to behead Grizzard? Because, despite the popular opinion in Jakarta, we are not savages. The pope and Rick Warren might not agree that burning versions of books that you don’t agree with is a good thing – hell, they might even find it blasphemous – but they won’t resort to violence to make their point. And we don’t expect them to. It doesn’t even enter into our minds that they might send out their followers on a kill crazy rampage.
If we burned copies of Mao’s Red Book should we expect an imminent attack from China? No. If we burn a copy of Dianetics should we get ready for John Travolta to raise an army of Scientologists to raze Los Angeles? No. If we burn the Torah should we get in our bomb shelters in anticipation of an Israeli nuclear attack? Of course not.
So why should we expect anything less from Muslims? Why do they get to act like children when we all expect the rest of the world to act like adults? I would truly like an answer to this question, aside from the obvious retort that we are trying to avoid an international incident. That isn’t going to cut it. All we are doing now is indulging a petulant child, and that is part of the reason we are having trouble with them in the first place.
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Well put Theo!
I want to not thank you rather explain to you that 9 years later you are all still cowards. An act that you thought would bring a sure final solution to the United States of America economically and spiritually did not in the end come to fruition.
Sure it was a huge gut punch for all of us. I remember more boozing as I refused to hide in my house in the days and weeks after the attack. Many establishments were near empty with just me and my regular cohorts eating and drinking. We didn’t know what to do, we felt lost our America was hurting but we were not going to hide we knew that was what you 19 soulless pricks wanted.
Many have suffered because of your acts – nearly 3000 that day in September and two wars and 9 years later – 6,805 brave men and women of the US Military have been lost to date.
But we endure. It’s what we do. We are Americans and we know this is the greatest country on earth.
Paraphrasing what Lincoln once said of America – we will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter, fail it will be of our own doing…
And as a fair warning to those that revere the aforementioned 19 cocksuckers: America is not an apologetic, bowing country even though our current adminstration would have you believe this – so tread lightly. Maybe you’ll get your trophy mosque but I can assure you will not enjoy whether it’s a metrosexual bar next door, or the already existing strip clubs I don’t know again we are Americans and we will not forget!
God Bless you America!
A terrible day which will never be forgotten!! Let us hope and pray that those holding the reigns will do their very best in preventing an incident like this, or for that matter, any type of incident, from happening again! For all of those unfortunate individuals who have been caused pain and suffering, may God Bless You and Watch Over You!!