So, Well, Here’s My Problem . . .

by Little Miss Attila on May 13, 2011

What if they’d thrown water balloons at someone who was attempting to burn a Koran?

I’m sorry; I realize everyone’s going to get mad at me. And, for the record, I happen to be against the burning of both Korans and American flags. But I thought the cure for bad speech was more speech/good speech. Couldn’t they have sung “America the Beautiful” instead?

Have we lost the art of responding to such egregious statements without trying to shut them down entirely?

I honestly think that AllahP gets it right, here.

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I R A Darth Aggie May 14, 2011 at 1:51 pm

At least he wasn’t arrested, tried and convicted before burning anything, unlike a certain Koran burner in Dearbornistan.

Besides, isn’t the right to keep and bear water ballons enshrined in the 2nd amendment? I’m pretty sure that’s mentioned in Stuff Jefferson Said: Volume 3.

Side note: at least they didn’t drag him out to the Atchafalaya Basin. I understand that’s about to rise about 25 feet in places now that the ACoE has opened a lock to divert water from the Mississippi. There are places out there you don’t go unless you speak real good Cajun.

Also: at least he didn’t try this in College Station, Texas…

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Azmat Hussain May 16, 2011 at 10:15 pm

You poor misguided souls, just for your information, growing up a muslim it is a common practice to burn the Koran. The logic behind it is that if you leave the loose papers lying about someone might step on it or use it for some other purpose then the one intended. Hence if a few pages of the Quran are ripped, you burn them. Or if the Quran will not be used for reading or recitation it is burned. Now some Yankee folk are just not aware of that custom, and actually believe that it is offensive to burn the Quran. What can I say that is just simply not true.
Now you are going to say what is the big kufafle about the Koran burning in the south? well it is like a brother can a brother a nigga, but if someone else does, well those are fighting words because the intent is to demean and dehumanize.

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Little Miss Attila May 17, 2011 at 3:20 pm

But we do that to flags, to–burning is one of the ways that one can dispose of tattered flags that are no longer suitable for display.

So, in each case, the offensiveness depends upon perceived intent.

My point is that legality should be independent of offensiveness.

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