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Permalink Reply by Julien on November 29, 2010 at 6:04pm

I would rather have those books recycled...

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on November 29, 2010 at 11:41pm

Book burning is pretty dumb, but so is lavishing media attention and outrage on some yahoo that has decided to burn a book.

I think people should be as free to burn books as they are to insult the Prophet Child Molester. While neither option really garners respect, neither should they generate outrage or death sentences.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Heim on November 30, 2010 at 12:03am

I'll never stoop to the level of religious extremists.

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Permalink Reply by wisp on November 30, 2010 at 1:25am

It's terrible that they're doing that, but I don't think responding by burning their holy book is the right way to handle it. It would just, *ahem* "inflame" the situation even more.

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on November 30, 2010 at 1:33am

Very punny! I approve!

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Permalink Reply by justin gold on November 30, 2010 at 3:19pm

"well done"a "rare" gift.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Paisley on November 30, 2010 at 8:50pm

Yes but don't let this running gag go up in smoke.

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Permalink Reply by Atheist Exile on November 30, 2010 at 1:56am

I think it's most noteworthy that we're not talking about Islamists or Muslim extremists here. We're talking about ordinary Muslims from an ordinary Muslim neighborhood in a Muslim country.

Islam needs to be reformed so that Muslims can be reformed. Muslim neighbors in a U.S. city are a whole different thing than Muslim neighbors in a Muslim country. It's a mistake to hold up Western, educated, Muslims as examples of typical Muslims. As long as Islam includes Shariah law and embraces Jihad, it won't be unusual to see normal Muslims agitating against and attacking non-Muslims.

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Permalink Reply by Ryan E. Hoffman on November 30, 2010 at 8:49pm

perfectly put.

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Permalink Reply by Loop Johnny on November 30, 2010 at 8:01am

... -> Hate -> Hate -> Hate -> Hate -> Hate -> ...

See where this is going?

Also, I forgot to say where it all started: Religion -> Hate -> Hate -> ...

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Permalink Reply by Peter Metcalfe on November 30, 2010 at 11:52am

Muslims have taken their religious belief to a form of insanity and this proves it.

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Permalink Reply by John Frazer on November 30, 2010 at 5:31pm

Link is down.

http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs15/f/2007/029/e/8/Holey_Bible_by_FaceMa...
(I was looking for one not photoshopped I saw a while ago of a copy of the bible that'd been used as a target.
Found lots of links to that old story of them going haywire after a U.S. soldier used a koran as a target)
I like the suggestion to recycle them. Even keeping copies around in museums for reference is too dangerous. Some idiot might decide to take them seriously and start the dangerous mental viruses spreading again.

"Religious tolerance" is fake. They won't tolerate other religions any farther than they have to. They "tolerate" others as much as civil society forces them to. Take it back a few centuries, and "heretics" and "pagans" were so much firewood.

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