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Koran burning
Sep. 8th, 2010 09:11 amOh good grief.
By now you've probably heard about the plan to burn the Koran on 9/11. *headdesk*
Because what we really need, apparently, is even the moderate Muslims thinking that we're total dicks. If they don't already after the Park 51 / Burlington Coat Factory / "hallowed ground" (pardon me while I drag my gaze back from the ceiling; I will sprain my eyes if I leave them this way) thing.
I guess on the bright side is the fact that this is apparently, if I'm hearing NPR correctly, a Fred Phelps style group--a tiny congregation looking for attention by doing outrageous things. (NPR didn't put it quite that way, but it's a church of about 50 people.)
It's not the "this might provoke violence" part that gets me. In fact, I think that's entirely the wrong tack to take. Crazy people will do what crazy people will do--you can't saw bits off your life that might "provoke" them. No, it's the fact that we'd like to be on the same side as moderates (real moderates) everywhere. And this is the way NOT to do that.
It's a free country. They can do it if they want. But it's a dickish thing to do; let me so be recorded saying it.
By now you've probably heard about the plan to burn the Koran on 9/11. *headdesk*
Because what we really need, apparently, is even the moderate Muslims thinking that we're total dicks. If they don't already after the Park 51 / Burlington Coat Factory / "hallowed ground" (pardon me while I drag my gaze back from the ceiling; I will sprain my eyes if I leave them this way) thing.
I guess on the bright side is the fact that this is apparently, if I'm hearing NPR correctly, a Fred Phelps style group--a tiny congregation looking for attention by doing outrageous things. (NPR didn't put it quite that way, but it's a church of about 50 people.)
It's not the "this might provoke violence" part that gets me. In fact, I think that's entirely the wrong tack to take. Crazy people will do what crazy people will do--you can't saw bits off your life that might "provoke" them. No, it's the fact that we'd like to be on the same side as moderates (real moderates) everywhere. And this is the way NOT to do that.
It's a free country. They can do it if they want. But it's a dickish thing to do; let me so be recorded saying it.
