In the United States, if we abhor someones politics, we tell the world on radio, on television, on the Innernoodle.
In the United States, if we despise a religion, we burn its holy book.
In the United States, if we denounce a war, we hurl invective at dead soldiers parents.
In the United States, if we curse our neighbors, the Supreme Court reminds our neighbors that free speech is the bedrock of this nation.
In Afghanistan, “God fearing” Muslims kill their neighbors because some American nutcase burned the Quran.
I note with dismay that in the United States, when some whacko burns a Quran, Sen. Harry Reid says he may call for Congressional hearings into Christian extremist Terry Jones but Sen. Harry Reid has nothing bad to say about Muslims killing nine people and injuring 81 in the Afghan city of Kandahar.
I took this in Tonopah last year:
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“In the United States, if we despise a religion, we burn its holy book.”
Hyperbole — but cute, nevertheless.
I don’t personally know anyone who has ever burned a so-called holy book; and I’ve only heard of it happening one time. Apparently the only people it riled were Muslims, Liberal democrats and a few fence-straddling moderates.
Wait, I sorta/kinda take that back. I did know somebody who did it. When I was a kid my mother tossed all my old playboys in the fire barrel. Neighbor burned himself trying to dig them out.
— George