Just to be clear, despite this asshole''s assurance that he and his lickspittle congregation are prepared to die for their right to burn Korans, they are not the one's who are going to be killed, wounded, psychologically traumatized and bereaved. I hate to disrupt their martyrdom fantasy, but burning a bunch of Korans in Gainsesville ain't going to mobilize the Old Man in the Mountain and his Assassins to descend on Gatorcountry on a mission of revenge. If they want to be martyrs, I recommend they scrap their plan to do this outside their church but to gather all their friends, family and relations and go to...oh, Isreal. Note the irony. Mossad will have their cracker asses in jail in no time; or, go do it at the international airport in Yemen. Just fly in, sit around until everybody is there, grab some trash cans and go do your thing. Burn those Korans...and enjoy hell.
Phil Ochs wrote a song called I ain't marchin anymore that is a classic antiwar song. The chorus is"It's always the old who lead us to war/Always the young to fall/Now look at what we've done with a saber and a gun/Tell me was it worth it all?" I think it needs to be modified to say some something about inbred, ingrate, liars, thieves and nutjobs getting us into situations that kill soldiers.
Seriously, any soldier who is injured or killed, and any bereaved family, and any US civilian who is a victim of reprisal from the whackjobs who will be enraged by the act of these inbred, ingrate, liars, thieves and racist bastards should sue them. Burning the Koran is not an act of worship -- legally, I think it falls under the heading of a Tort. Worth thinking about. And, if anyone is thinking about it in Islam, I think that suing these bastards is probably legally defensible. What reputable figures would testify on their behalf?
What, seriously?
I would have thought that US soldiers and civilians are more likely to be caught up in reprisals from Muslims who are enraged about the bombs and invasions, before any of this. Maybe that's just me though.
Posted by: McDuff | 10 September 2010 at 10:27 AM