TUNDRA TABLOIDS
Vlad: This, is what I call perspective.
Thank you very much Michael. You have been one of the very few intelligent and clear voices on these matters on Canadian TV, or any TV for that matter, for some time now.
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Koran Burning: I’d Listen to another Lecture, But Someone’s Trying to Behead Me
I thought, upon seeing the title, that I was going to be placed on the unfamiliar ground of disagreeing with Ann Coulter. So, imagine how delighted I was upon discovering that on the Koran burning, we are in perfect harmony.
I’m sure she’d be thrilled–if she knew.
Bonfire of the Insanities
In response to Gen David Petraeus’ denunciation of Florida pastor Terry Jones’ right to engage in a symbolic protest of the 9/11 attacks by burning copies of the Quran this Sept. 11, President Obama said: “Let me be clear: As a citizen, and as president, I believe that members of the Dove World Outreach Center have the same right to freedom of speech and religion as anyone else in this country.”Exactly.
Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida lauded Obama’s remarks, saying America is “a place where you’re supposed to be able to practice your religion without the government telling you you can’t.”
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called Obama’s words a “clarion defense of the freedom of religion” — and also claimed that he had recently run into a filthy jihadist who actually supported the Quran-burning!
Keith Olbermann read the poem “First they came …” on air in defense of the Quran-burners, nearly bringing himself to tears at his own profundity.
No wait, my mistake. This is what liberals said about the ground zero mosque only five minutes ago when they were posing as First Amendment absolutists. Suddenly, they’ve developed amnesia when it comes to the free-speech right to burn a Quran.
It would be interesting to compare the “burning the Koran” naysayers with what they had to say on “burning the American flag.”
Where are all of these true champions of religious faith and civility to folks just trying to practice their religion when Saudi Arabia Bible-shredding is going on? Koran Burning Outrage: Saudi Government Shreds Confiscated Bibles
Crickets.
Coulter gets the entire issue exactly right.
Also, as I recall, there was no Guantanamo, no Afghanistan war and no Iraq war on Sept. 10, 2001. And yet, somehow, Osama bin Ladin had no trouble recruiting back then. Can we retire the “it will help them recruit” argument yet?There are more considerations at play than “rights.”
The reason not to burn Qurans is that it’s unkind — not to jihadists, but to Muslims who mean us no harm. The same goes for building a mosque at ground zero — in both cases, it’s not a question of anyone’s “rights,” it’s just a nasty thing to do.
“Living together in a civil society” is one of them.
However, that argument always gets short shrift from the same crowd questioning the Koran burning with the Rodney King-like “Can’t we all just get along?”
by Mondo Frazier
image: RAPH
