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Originally posted by seeweed:
Just what the hell does burning a Bible or a Quran or any other book held sacred by somebody have to do with being an American. The Constitutionally accepted way to handle other religions is to accept them.
There is nothing American about accepting all beliefs, there is a big difference in allowing someone to practice their religion and accepting their religion. Their is also a big difference in allowing them to practice their religion in peace (yea I know, islam and peace in the same sentence, insert joke here >_____<) and allowing them to tell the rest of us how we must behave.
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To deride, belittle, demean, or harrass anyone or group because of their religious belief is among one of the LEAST American things a person can do.
It's called freedom of speech and freedom of expression. If the muslims can't handle that then oh well, they don't need to try and make it my problem.
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This preacher is obviously some un-American, self-righteous , hypocritical redneck bigot, looking for some way to alienate a sizable portion of the rest of the world, and stir up another bunch of fundamentalist, who, like himself, have absolutely no brain.
Whatever, doesn't matter why he did, he has the right to do it anyway and those idiotic extremist fellas had no right to use violence because of it.
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It is people like fundamentalist , regardless of what religion, that have caused more war and misery in this world than any other source since the Black Plague.
So you are somewhat admitting that it was the resposibility of the muslim extremists who called for and committed the murders?
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Personally I wish he could be arrested for conspiracy to commit murder, but this country has too many right-wing fundamentalist nuts to ever actually do that.
Which is why we can certainly say that you are being un-American with such a statement, to think that you would charge someone with murder because they said something that someone else allowed to hurt their feelings?