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Taking Aim at the Koran


Here's a good reminder to the conservatives out there that free speech protections cover them as well. These guys should make sure their ACLU membership, and their NRA memberships are up to date.

If your muslim, you probably won't want to watch these vids.

What this guy did was every bit as inflammatory as dropping a crucifix in a jar of urine and calling it art. But his defense on his blog has been very literate. Normally I don't cut n paste this much, but I have to say it was a very stimulating exercise in the expression of constitutional rights. It would have just been a bunch of guys with guns acting mildly stupid, except for what he wrote afterwards.

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It’s a book, and it is not sacred to me. It is my property and I do not follow religious law. I have the right to burn or destroy it. Thousands of Korans in this country are destroyed in book stores every year by having their covers ripped off, and then being shredded. The Koran is nothing more than a book to me, and to America; at least as regards our law.

Oh and I feel the same about the Torah, the Bible, and even the Constitution. By destroying a book, you do not destroy the ideas that are within it. You do not destroy the faith of those that believe in it. You do not destroy anything that matters. It is nothing more than paper, glue, and ink.

We as Americans are free to disagree, and even to hate if we want, without being convicted for apostasy or heresy or political unreliability. We have no thought police here, nor roving bands of religious enforcers.

This may enrage muslims, but muslims within our society must learn to live within our society and by OUR rules. They have no right to punish me or to demand my punishment or my censure for this action, and they must learn this. Muslims living in other free societies must learn to live within the rules of a free society.

Is that cultural imperialism? Perhaps, but I feel fully justified in it.

I would not burn your koran, or your bible, or your torah, in fact if I did I would expect to get my ass kicked and then thrown in jail; but mine I should be able to do anything I want with, including use it as toilet paper if I feel like...

...It’s the same for me with the flag. Do I dislike intensely the burning of the flag? Of course I do. Do the flag burners anger me? Of course they do; but it’s not because they are burning the flag, it’s WHY they are burning the flag, and what they are trying to say by doing so that angers me. I loathe what they are trying to say, but as far as I’m concerned they should and MUST be allowed to say those things, and to burn the flag if it is what they wish, so long as they paid for it.

Chris Byrne