<p>I could… if I knew more adults in that span. I know how teachers will respond. I know how my parents will respond. I know how my other family members will respond.</p>
<p>MIThopeful16, I strongly disagree.</p>
<p>I find it baseless to claim that older persons are close minded purely due to their age, or because of their “resources” (whatever that was supposed to mean).</p>
<p>Our age group is traditionally more “liberal” (although I am about the pinnacle of arch-conservatism, so it obviously doesn’t go for everyone).
The parents you call close minded are the same ones that went through the 60s and “hippy” culture, and contributed to it as they were younger at the time.</p>
<p>One could argue that they’ve learned better than that from life experience.</p>
<p>^ Truth.</p>
<p>As to the “canceling” of the event, I’m not going to celebrate yet. The whole “deal with the Imam” thing seems very fishy to me.</p>
<p>I just saw someone make what I think was a rather good point. They said:</p>
<p>“Burning a Qur’an is a dumb, insensitive, but legal thing to do. Building a mosque near Ground Zero is also a dumb, insensitive, but legal thing to do. Why do we applaud one and condemn the other?”</p>
<p>I’m opposed to both, but I support the right of both to do so.</p>
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<p>Overt hostility is a not-so-subtle difference.</p>
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Should all the Muslims living in that vicinity move away? Or just not organize? Why is it insensitive for them to build a community center? You are giving great power to al Qaeda by making them the representatives of Islam.</p>
<p>^^ Truth again.</p>
<p>^^ I’m note sure I agree with the person who wrote that, I just thought it was a rather good point. It’s insensitive because it offends a large number of people. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong: sometimes it’s good to be insensitive.</p>
<p>Guy backed off.</p>
<p>[Fla</a>. minister cancels burning of Qurans on 9/11 - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/quran_burning]Fla”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/quran_burning)</p>
<p>EDIT: ^ Well, that’s good. 
Lol.</p>
<p>I am a Muslim American, and I can tell you firsthand that there’s no shortage of talk and unrest about this in the Muslim community in the United States. First of all, it’s incredibly disrespectful. I acknowledge that the church has the right to do this under our Constitution; however, the morality of the issue is severely undermined. Secondly, this action will put US troops and the American people in danger. It really will. How do you think Muslims around the world will feel about America after watching Americans on the news burn thousands of copies of their most sacred book? It’s an unmistakable insult, and I personally find it astonishing and belittling that this church would do such a thing to the people of my religion.</p>
<p>And most importantly of all, do they not realize who they’re acting like? Them, with their blind hatred and their acts of unwarranted animosity. They’re behaving just like al-Qaeda. And frankly, it’s disturbing.</p>
<p>The people who would attack Americans because of this are already our enemies, whether our leaders acknowledge it or not.</p>
<p>The part I find ironic is that many of these people protested the PLANNED burning of the Koran by ACTUALLY burning the American flag.
That is also an unmistakable insult, and, using the same logic you say Muslims around the world will apply, should result in us committing acts of violence against them.</p>
<p>There is a HUGE difference between Americans burning an American flags and Christian burning Qur’ans.</p>
<p>Quoted from somewhere else</p>
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<p>Just wanted to put that out there</p>
<p>^Very nice.</p>
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<p>As absurd as it is to imagine the US invading a Muslim country, I don’t think “those ******bags do it too” justifies or ameliorates burning objects.</p>
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No one here is saying that a book burning should result in violence, just that it might in this case. And we’ve already killed enough people in the Middle East.</p>
<p>I fear for our future diplomatic relations.</p>
<p>^^ And vice versa.</p>
<p>He has a right to do it.
We have the right to tell him that he can stick his hatred where the sun don’t shine.</p>
<p>ALL of this because of an Islamic Center in ground zero. Seesh, this is getting very annoying, I have a feeling that things will escalate so much that people will be at war with others who are different. I’m sick and tired of turning on the tv or reading the newspaper and seeing this crap all the time. To be honest I no longer care, because both sides can’t find a solution. I’m starting to think that some of the people are doing this for attention. If all religions practice peace, than why are we so ignorant to things that are different, and believe in war not love.</p>
<p>I’m too lazy to read through this thread, even though it’s only 4 pages, but I think the government should stop the Qur’an burnings by arguing that it’s a threat to national security or something. </p>
<p>This is intolerant, which is bad. It’s going to make a lot of people really mad, which is bad. And finally, it could get some people killed, which is bad (unless those some people are <em>VARY EVIL</em>… but they’re not).</p>