Koran Krisis

Thought I'd weigh in on this Koran hullaballoo. We are certainly seeing the media hype pastors of small churches who do stupid things, think Fred Phelps and now this guy, Terry Jones, who was (is?) going to make a big deal out of burning the Koran on 9/11. He had called it off, then said he was lied to and now the burning is just "on hold." While I definitely share his sentiments regarding the Koran and the religion it represents, I don't think making a big deal out of burning the Koran serves any purpose but making pastors look kooky and pissing off a bunch of already nutzoid Islamic fanatics. It would be better to just READ the Koran and educate people about what is actually in it. Just my two cents.

JASmius adds: Some quick hit bullet points....

***J-Ger's two cents:

Look, here’s a handy rule for Pastor Pyro in South Florida: If the act you’re contemplating has never been portrayed as noble, heroic, or moral in the entire history of popular culture or literature, your moral compass has probably run afoul of a magnetic field comparable to a black hole. Reread Fahrenheit 451, pal, the book-burning firemen were the bad guys.

***By lunging out of his way to play the heel, T.J. is making it teeth-grindingly easy for Imam Rauf to play the babyface.

***There's a reason why, as Red Barry's meteoric star fizzles, I'm transitioning to calling them the Dhimmedia.

***Speaking of Lucifer, he's now weighed in - by plagiarizing General Petraeus.

***Holy shinola - Sparing the Korans their date with hellfire in exchange for Park51 crying "No mosque!"?

***Um, no.

Exit question and quote:

Publicity whore?:

A partial list of people who’ve weighed in thus far on Terry Jones’s publicity stunt turned mega-clusterfark: The U.S. Secretary of State, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, the presidents of Afghanistan and Indonesia, the prime minister of Iraq, the home minister of India, the Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., the FBI, Interpol, the Vatican — and now, inevitably, the president of the United States. What this is, basically, is a global hostage situation. 

All this from the mind of a frocked yahoo in the rural hinterlands of Florida.  My two cents?  Yes, and sinfully so.

Pretty soon he’ll be walking up to tourists holding camcorders, a Koran in one hand and a Bic in the other, yelling, “Don’t make me do it.”

My new idea for how to get him to stand down: Offer him a part in a reality show. He could run against Levi as mayor of Wasilla. Assuming that Alvin Greene declines the part first, of course.