<p>What do you guys think of it?</p>
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<p>I personally feel the idea is idiotic, but the responses that saying it endangers the troops leaves me thinking that if we were not involved that we would think nothing of it.</p>
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He’s going to do it. It’s stupid and intolerant. It doesn’t deserve our attention, just our disapproval before we begin to ignore the man.</p>
<p>He’s an attention wh0r3. Choosing 9/11 as the day doesn’t make it any better either.</p>
<p>ugh so stupid. i really worry about some members of the human race.</p>
<p>I’m having a hard time understanding what possible good it could do, besides gain free media attention for the people involved.</p>
<p>Let’s see:</p>
<p>Cons:</p>
<p>Makes Muslims mad that their religion is being treated this way.</p>
<p>Makes Christians mad that their religion is being treated this way.</p>
<p>Makes a whole bunch of other people mad because other people are mad.</p>
<p>Wastes trees, contributing to Global Warming.</p>
<p>Creates carbon emissions, contributing to Global Warming.</p>
<p>Wastes my time, typing this.</p>
<p>Pros:</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>I really don’t see any point in it. It doesn’t help with anything at all.</p>
<p>I think the thread should be reworded…it’s a given ‘duh’ that everyone’s pretty much against it except for the dude himself and his crazed disciples. I’m really just surprised they’re (the government are) still letting him do it. He’s supposedly protected by 1st amendment rights but technically stuff like this should be illegal.</p>
<p>actually, there is a point to all of this, i just have not figured it out yet…</p>
<p>^^ that part I don’t agree with. If we can burn Bibles and flags, then why not the Qur’an?</p>
<p>Nobody should do any of those things, but really that’s God’s business, not the government’s.</p>
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We should not fight intolerance with oppression.</p>
<p>That’s right, oppression just breed more problems. I would just tell him to take a chill pill though.</p>
<p>^^ But we would (in that case) not be trying to oppress his intolerance because he’s being intolerant; he’s actually possibly endangering U.S. troops, especially at this sensitive time in the situation overseas, and giving radical terrorists organizations more fodder to target the U.S.</p>
<p>but if that were true, then the fault should be that of the media for making news of it. For without the media, very few terrorists would even be aware of it.</p>
<p>^^ true, but in that case we should also oppress anyone who is a Catholic, since some unstable people in other countries think Catholics are evil and will dislike the US if we harbor them.</p>
<p>Also flag burning should be illegal, and anyone who makes “soldiers aren’t heroes” facebook pages should be arrested, since those things demoralize the troops and increase their danger.</p>
<p>Not to mention the politicians who didn’t vote money to equip all our men with force fields and tactical robots.</p>
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That may or may not be the case. But some people will take up arms against Jews. Should we stop people from being Jewish? And supporting the wars will not make those enemies happy, so we should suppress war support, for the war effort. Right?</p>
<p>What’s funny is that the guy who’s going to do this is a scam artist. He tricked his followers into some sort of furniture business or something. The Young Turks did a video on it.</p>
<p>I’m muslim and i find it extremely offensive. That man is stupid & ignorant. He can go to hell.</p>
<p>Actually we’re supposed to burn paper if it has an qur’an written on it and you want to get rid of it…</p>
<p>You’re also supposed to burn an American flag to dispose of it, but you cut out the Union (blue with stars) first, so it is no longer a true flag.</p>
<p>(from 4-6 posts above) While I see why it’d be a horrid idea to suppress the guy for 1st-amendment reasons, I don’t feel as if Catholicism/flag burning/Judaism/war support count as parallel arguments against something that’s clearly viewed by a vast majority of people as wrong or (for flag-burning) may (not necessarily but still may) directly provoke terrorism/violence against us.
Though again, I suppose from those who mentioned the media that somehow prohibiting him may just turn it into an even larger debacle. Hopefully this story will just fade starting September 12th.</p>