THE REAL BURNING ISSUE IS NOT BURNING THE KORAN - IT'S THE THREATENED RESPONSE

If a woman is married to a wife-beater who beats her if she dresses in a way he finds provocative, AND she dresses that way and THEN he beats her, THEN can he tell the COPS it was her fault!?!?

NOPE.

NO EFFIN' WAY.

He can argue she incited him all he wants.

He can say "I WARNED HER!" but it doesn't matter.

He's at fault.

So it is with the ill-advised koran-burning scheduled for 9/11.

Maybe he should no more burn the koran than the wife in my scenario above wear a tight sweater or a short skirt, but NEVERTHELESS it is his right to do so as much as it is hers to wear what she DAMN pleases.

The Taliban kill and maim women for learning to read or going without the hijab or burqa.

That is bad and wrong.

And it is bad and wrong for muslims to threaten violence or carry it out against a CARTOONIST who draws a picture of Mohammed, and it is wrong for them to threaten or carry our violence against ANYONE who burns a koran.

I'd like to see & hear ONE imam - especially Rauf, and a leading Saudi or Egyptian imam or Jordanian imam - condemn those who threaten violent retribution against the USA or our troops opr ANYONE for the impending koran burning.

I won't hold my breath.

They won't move the GZ mosque and they won't consistently or vociferously condemn the Taliban or other violent muslims.

They haven't sufficiently since 9/11. If they had SUFFICIENTLY, then people would NOT object to the GZ mosque.

The fact is that the most extreme and violent muslims - like Bin Laden and the Taliban and so on - they are the ones MOST emulating Mohamed who was himself a violent terrorist.

The sooner we accept that islam is at it's core exactly what the so-called "extremists" say it is the better for us - and so-called moderates.

The so-called extremists have killed more of their fellow muslims than we have. More than Israelis have.

They have killed more Hindus and Buddhists than Jews or Christians.

And they have killed more people since Mohamed's time than any other ideology in all of human history; (though 20th C socialism is a close second!).

The sooner we recognize the enemy, the sooner shall defeat all those who effort to foment evil, violence, darkness and to limit human liberty.

If we appease those who wish to install a totalitarian regime over us, then they shall win.

It's that simple.

Giving into the muslim threats is appeasement.

Whether we like it or not.

AND LET ME BE CLEAR BOUT THAT: I don't like the koran-burning scheduled for 9/11:

It proves nothing new - to me; 9/11 - and the Cartoon Crisis - were ample proof of his point for me.

But we can no more blame Terry Jones for what violence is sure to follow than blame the wife who is beaten by her husband.

Maybe she dares to wear a short skirt and a tight sweater this one time just to incite one last beating that will bring the COPS and release her?

If so, then who are we to blame her?

Especially if we have left her previous calls and complaints unheeded.

UPDATE:

MERKEL CONDEMNED THE KORAN-BURNING BUT HONORS A MOHAMED CARTOONIST!?!?

YES:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel risked angering Muslims by speaking at an awards ceremony on Wednesday for a Dane whose cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed provoked sometimes violent protests by Muslims five years ago.

The 75-year-old cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose drawings of Mohammed that offended Muslims worldwide first appeared in Danish paper Jyllands-Posten in 2005, was due to receive a prize Wednesday evening at a conference on freedom of the press.

[VIA MEMORANDUM]

THIS IS INTELLECTUALLY INCONSISTENT.

THE CARTOONS WERE EVERY BIT AS PROVOCATIVE AS THE KORAN-BURNING - AND EQUALLY PREMEDITATED.

IF ONE WAS RIGHT, THEN SO IS THE OTHER.

(OBVIOUSLY: BOOK-BURNING IS - LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY - MORE INCENDIARY. HEH.)

UPDATE #2: NYTIMES:

The reaction in the Muslim world, many Islamic experts said, could be as bad—or perhaps even worse--than the reaction in 2006 when a Danish newspaper published a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammad with his turban turning into a bomb. The cartoon ignited huge protests around the Muslim world. The United States stayed largely out of that—the riots and burnings were directed toward Danish and European entities. But a burning of the Koran—Islam’s most sacred text—in Florida would unleash that anger directly at the United States, Muslim scholars warned.

IF THE MOHAMED CARTOONS WERE JUST, THEN SO IS THE KORAN-BURNING.

OBAMA, PALIN, ROMNEY, AND GELLER ARE WRONG TO CONDEMN THE KORAN-BURNING.

THE WIFEBEATER IS ALWAYS TO BLAME, NOT THE WIFE.