So that pastor who wanted to burn the Koran/Quran...

[trotsky]

Yeah, he's a dipshit. But does anyone else look at this reaction:

Dipshit does something stupid but doesn't actually hurt anyone --> group of people will go mad with rage and kill people

And think that there's something a little more important to talk about than the dipshit?

[LostOne4Ever]

1. Exactly right

But then again, I thought that when that one cartoonist got death threats our country should have had a "Cartoon Mohammad day."

Not so much to make fun of islam but rather to show solidarity with the cartoonist and to show that we value freedom of expression, freedom of religion and irreligion, and that we aren't going to be intimidated by anyone.

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Apparently standing up for the values this country is founded on is not big with politicians these days. Playing up god and nationalism they can do all the damn time, but standing up for the core beliefs this country was founded on? Can't do that.

[Lordquinton]

3. You mean like they did with South Park?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Draw_Mohammed_Day

The only reason it's not still going for that, and in memory of the cartoonist who actually was killed, is because of so many people saying that they should let it go, that it's disrespectful and such.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. I have always wondered why we bother giving air time to dipshits.

Unfortunately, there are more dipshits getting media attention (just like they want) every day.

I think that we would do well to ignore crackpots like this, but I am not queen of the world.

[OriginalGeek]

4. He was arrested the other day

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/12/florida-pastor-terry-jones-qurans

A Florida pastor was arrested on Wednesday as he drove to a park to set fire to nearly 3,000 Qur'ans to mark the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Sheriff's deputies in Mulberry, Florida, arrested Terry Jones, 61, and his associate pastor, Marvin Sapp Jr, 44, on felony charges of unlawful conveyance of fuel as they travelled in a pickup truck towing a large barbecue-style grill filled with Qur'ans soaked in kerosene.

Jones had said he was heading to a nearby park to burn 2,998 Qur'ans – one for every victim of the 2001 attacks. Sheriff's officials said that Jones was also charged with the unlawful open-carry of a firearm and that Sapp faced a charge of having no valid registration for the trailer.

Can't say I feel bad for him.

[trotsky]

5. I think he's a complete ass.

But burning books should simply never result in someone getting mad enough to kill people.

[OriginalGeek]

6. true dat

I doubt it's ever occurred to him that his religious book of choice is just as ridiculous is the one he wants to burn...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. Insert famous quote:

Where first they burn books, eventually they burn people. --- Heinrich Heine