National Burn a Koran Day

[Dzone]

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Just saw that the state department has issued a travel advisory and warning to Americans in many foreign countries. Interpol has also issued a global alert to members in 188 countries. Yeah, this is a great idea. Unreal.

Unreal is right. All in the name of RELIGION!

[straydoglogic]

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Just saw that the state department has issued a travel advisory and warning to Americans in many foreign countries. Interpol has also issued a global alert to members in 188 countries. Yeah, this is a great idea. Unreal.

[Dzone]

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If you were brought up on the bible's teaching of an eye for an eye than surely you must have been taught to turn the other cheek. Two wrongs don't make it right. I guess it comes down to, if you know and understand why they dislike us, then you would know and understand why doing this is harmful to the war effort and any peace process. What you're doing by condoning this is perpetuating the anger against us.

I'm pretty sure Jesus was preaching against "eye for an eye"..I believe it was Mark Twain who said if we all lived by "an eye for an eye" we would all be blind.
Anyway, I just cant see ONE SINGLE benefit from this whacko pastor doing this. Well, of course, he will bring in a lot of cash donations and will become a national celebrity. He will be on Oprah, Dr. Phil and the cover of People, Time and newsweek. That pastor is going to rake in the $$$dough over this and he knows it.

[straydoglogic]

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I found this

Jesus went in the temple and distroyed all the vendors tables, because they weren't honoring God

I could post quotes from the bible as well that would make it look like one of the most grotesque books ever written. No point in that.
Are you really saying Fuzo that you condone this and think it's a smart and reasonable thing to do? You say that building a mosque is in bad taste but this isn't? This I'm struggling to comprehend.

[FUZO]

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its not a church its a man doing this and what he beleives is right

[O2BESOHUGE]

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FIRST OFF, WHAT KIND OF CHURCH DOES THIS??? THIS ISNT DOING ANYTHING BUT STIRRING UP A BEES NEST! BRINGING ON MORE RETALIATION

[FUZO]

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I found this

Jesus went in the temple and distroyed all the vendors tables, because they weren't honoring God

[straydoglogic]

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i think the pastore is ignorant. i dont believe in burning any books. why burn a book? wtf does that do? you wanna do something, grab a gun and go to afghanastan and shoot some taliban!!! dont burn a book moran!! step to the pump!!

I would never in a million years even THINK about burning the book from the church of Dave.

[straydoglogic]

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Like I said I see all your points and I see why soldiers would be pissed because I dont want any of them in harms way but ive always been brought up a eye for a eye. Why should they be able to burn our flag every friggin time and if we do anything to other countries or bad people then we are wrong

If you were brought up on the bible's teaching of an eye for an eye than surely you must have been taught to turn the other cheek. Two wrongs don't make it right. I guess it comes down to, if you know and understand why they dislike us, then you would know and understand why doing this is harmful to the war effort and any peace process. What you're doing by condoning this is perpetuating the anger against us.

[daved150]

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i think the pastore is ignorant. i dont believe in burning any books. why burn a book? wtf does that do? you wanna do something, grab a gun and go to afghanastan and shoot some taliban!!! dont burn a book moran!! step to the pump!!

[straydoglogic]

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Hey Jsjs, sorry about mistaking you and stray...hope i'm not getting senile..LOL...

Lol..no worries there D, I was over there too, so you're not going completely senile, just a little.

[JsJs24]

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One hard truth is that America is steadily gaining more and more followers of religions that are NOT Christian. How are we going to deal with this? Seriously, in five to ten years this situation could be far more serious than it is now. What are we going to do when we have 100 Million muslims living here?

No worries bro just wanted to reiterate my point really. I have seen the level of violence skyrocket from this type of bs and it isn't fun when you're over there. I have no problem with anyone burning bibles if that's what they want to do, but they are only helping the sellers of those books by purchasing them to burn and hurting the soldiers by causing a large media focus on the event. The terrorists will surely use this as a means to recruit more fighters for their cause, which will be used as suicide bombers and such. I would even go as far as to say this may aggravate them to such an extreme that they may carry out attacks inside our homeland. You have to try and think like they will. The ones who are passively involved will be motivated stronger than ever when they see on tv that their sacred Koran is being burned. This will lead to a level of pissed off that we have never seen possibly. I won't be surprised one bit if some of these radicals unleash their anger on American soil, but let's hope not. I think this will anger them as much or more than anything else we have done since the war. Just my 2 cents though, I am no expert but have witnessed the levels of attacks increase every time the media airs anything negative toward the Islamic extremists.

[Dzone]

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"It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort," top commander in Afghanistan Gen. David Petraeus told the media. "It is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems."

Am more cynical now about organized religion and am thinking this pastor Jones is hearing Cha-Ching$$$$$ Cha-Ching$$$$$...as his tiny little church becomes world famous..The dude could stand to rake in some big dough in the form of ****ive donations..He is hitting the lottery by burning korans... He is probably going to make this a weekly event to "raise money for the church" ;-)

[Dzone]

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That was me bro. I was in Balad Iraq, aka Mortaritaville at the time when the Gharib pictures were released. We were getting rocket attacks on the base in our tent city like crazy and one of them hit a tent 3 down from mine and killed an air traffic controller Airman 1st Class and took the leg off another tenant. What a scary night that turned out to be. But we ended up hitting the guys shooting rockets with a hellfire missile. The attacks went on for a couple weeks at that high level, dozens of shells and rockets per day and night. Its hard to sleep when the ground shakes all night from rockets I assure you. I can only imagine the same thing will happen if they burn those books and the media airs it which they will.

Hey Jsjs, sorry about mistaking you and stray...hope i'm not getting senile..LOL...anyway, JsJs, my hats off to you. That story about Iraq is chilling. Thanks for sharing that. We have it so good here in America, we can hardly imagine going through such a thing. Your opinions come from someone who faced the fire over there, so for me, it caRRIES more legitimacy with regards to the war. Al Jazeera will take the videos of the book burning and use it to incite further hatred. They will make it look like ALL Americans are acting this way. Like EVERY American is a religious fanatic who wants to kill innocent people. Its called PROPAGANDA and it has been used since the beginning of time to influence the m a sses. This Pastor is giving them exactly what they want. Well, all we can say is that its a free country and we can burn whatever the hell we want to. When someone burns an American flag, it is legal.
One hard truth is that America is steadily gaining more and more followers of religions that are NOT Christian. How are we going to deal with this? Seriously, in five to ten years this situation could be far more serious than it is now. What are we going to do when we have 100 Million muslims living here?

[JsJs24]

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This story has really taken on a Gigantic scope! Seems to be THE big news story this week. Stray, I give you more credibility because you have been over there and experienced that abu graib backlash

That was me bro. I was in Balad Iraq, aka Mortaritaville at the time when the Gharib pictures were released. We were getting rocket attacks on the base in our tent city like crazy and one of them hit a tent 3 down from mine and killed an air traffic controller Airman 1st Class and took the leg off another tenant. What a scary night that turned out to be. But we ended up hitting the guys shooting rockets with a hellfire missile. The attacks went on for a couple weeks at that high level, dozens of shells and rockets per day and night. Its hard to sleep when the ground shakes all night from rockets I assure you. I can only imagine the same thing will happen if they burn those books and the media airs it which they will.