*Hugs first amendment* British police arrest men over burning korans

[0roo0roo]

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[JulesMaximus]

I have a hard time caring about this. As though the right to burn Korans is a freedom we should be proud to embrace...

 

[waggy]

how is that any worse then fineing the guy for 200k?

 

[Terzo]

I have a hard time caring about this. As though the right to burn Korans is a freedom we should be proud to embrace...

Not a fan of Voltaire, are we?

 

[mmntech]

The right to burn the Koran as a political demonstration is the same as the right to burn a flag. It should be allowed. Its still a book, written by men. Its not so much that the governments find it offensive, they fear reprisal by extremists, which is ironically why some people are protesting.

 

[DesiPower]

I always hated the idea, OK so we have bunch of nutjobs who are extremely touch about everything, so why bother them? just leave them the fvck alone... they are gonna do what they are gonna do, your making a statement will not dither them a tad from their agenda of killing you.

 

[paulney]

Lol, England.

 

[meltdown75]

In a joint statement, Northumbria Police and Gateshead Council said: "The kind of behaviour displayed in this video is not representative of our community as a whole.

"Our community is one of mutual respect and we continue to work together with community leaders, residents and people of all faiths and beliefs to maintain good community relations."

:thumbsup:

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Europe has always been more progressive. They are clearly way ahead of us in respect to their unstoppable police state.

 

[Ruptga]

I have a hard time caring about this. As though the right to burn Korans is a freedom we should be proud to embrace...

Seriously, the main thing that Koran burning expresses is your own supreme ignorance.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Fail to see how this is worse than the President telling a Pastor of a congregation of 50 to not burn the Koran.

 

[Terzo]

Seriously, the main thing that Koran burning expresses is your own supreme ignorance.

While I agree, being ignorant isn't a crime.

 

[waggy]

Fail to see how this is worse than the President telling a Pastor of a congregation of 50 to not burn the Koran.

And them they fining him 200k!

 

[JulesMaximus]

Seriously, the main thing that Koran burning expresses is your own supreme ignorance.

 

[DominionSeraph]

:thumbsup:

Unfortunately they don't know the meaning of the word, "mutual." Mutual respect would also have you respecting the viewpoint of those who burn the Koran. (As long as it's a reasonable protest)

Europe is kowtowing to intolerance in the name of tolerance.

 

[Terzo]

Fail to see how this is worse than the President telling a Pastor of a congregation of 50 to not burn the Koran.

And them they fining him 200k!

I'm assuming the first comment is in jest, but if not...the president's words didn't carry any legal weight. Just a strong recommendation, urging, pleading, whatever.

As for the fine, I don't know much about it but in the OT thread for it the resident AT lawyers seem to think it doesn't hold water and wont go anywhere.

 

[Terzo]

Seriously, the main thing that Koran burning expresses is your own supreme ignorance.

I'm ignorant because I don't think people should burn the Koran?

I think he was agreeing with you, not attacking you.

 

[Ruptga]

While I agree, being ignorant isn't a crime.

Only because we could never build enough jails if it were

Seriously, the main thing that Koran burning expresses is your own supreme ignorance.

I'm ignorant because I don't think people should burn the Koran?

Try again.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Unfortunately they don't know the meaning of the word, "mutual." Mutual respect would also have you respecting the viewpoint of those who burn the Koran. (As long as it's a reasonable protest)

Europe is kowtowing to intolerance in the name of tolerance.

I don't respect the viewpoint of those who burn the Koran. I think it is nothing more than intolerance breeding more intolerance and hatred. Nothing good can come of it.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Try again.

My bad, thought you were attacking me.

 

[waggy]

hahahah :thumbsup:

 

[Beev]

/shrug

I just like to mess with people. If I knew any Muslims I would have talked about participating in "Burn the Koran Day" and then not actually partake. No one should ever, ever, ever care what someone else thinks. Muslims should just shake their heads because they "know" the burners will go to hell, or whatever the Muslim equivalent is.

 

[DominionSeraph]

I don't respect the viewpoint of those who burn the Koran. I think it is nothing more than intolerance breeding more intolerance and hatred. Nothing good can come of it.

Given, "Death to the infidels," how are the infidels supposed to accommodate?

I think you'll find "intolerant" whites to be quite accommodating of those who accommodate in turn. But it seems the European ultra-liberals have gone off the deep end and treated tolerance as an absolute virtue and then had their white guilt blind them to the bi-directionality where it does actually exist as a virtue.

 

[highland145]

Does burning the bible have the same penalty?

 

[PhineasJWhoopee]

I have a hard time caring about this. As though the right to burn Korans is a freedom we should be proud to embrace...

Polite speech doesn't need to be protected.

Burning religious literature should be a protected right in the US.

Hopefully what's happening in the UK doesn't happen here.