The increasingly tedious Rev. Terry Jones remains under an almost impossible media spotlight, as he continues to waver back and forth on whether or not he’s going to actually go through with burning the Quran.
But while Jones parleys his threat into media fame and a few phone calls from top US government officials, a number of other groups have emerged with their own axes to grind and their own Qurans to burn.
Perhaps it was inevitable, for wherever there is a media circus the Westboro Baptist Church cannot be far behind, and they have promised to perform their own quran burning if Jones doesn’t. Other groups from Tennessee and Wyoming have announced similar plans.
In the meantime protests have erupted worldwide on the assumption that someone, somewhere is probably going to burn something. In Afghanistan the protests have gotten increasingly big, and NATO troops attacked at least one protest, killing one and wounding a number of others.
The United States citizenry has a long and ignoble history for hatred for minorities of every strip. And it began with the early colonists to this land. We are ignorant and meanspirited despite our protestations to the contrary.
Religious lunacy in America is intolerable. If only we could export Terry Jones, Franklin Graham, Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, John Hagee and Pat Robertson — that would be a good start.
To be non christian and/or non white is now dangerous in the land of the 'free'. Mob mentallity is so easy to induce on a people full of superstition & fear, works all the time.
Religion is to be mocked at every oppportunity and idiots such as this pastor make it so easy, problem is, these guys can cause serious damage to the social fabric of a society and carnage, horror, severe distress and pain is the only conclusion .
Lets get mocking
Could I be right in thinking that perhaps Quran burning is going to curtail our Arabian adventures? As our wide spread hatred of Muslims becomes better known across the Islamic world, who would be so foolhardy as to cooperate with us?
In fairness to Westboro they have burned Korans before. They may even have been the first in recent US history.
I am ashamed to be even an nonpracticing baptist