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2010-09-12 Home Front: Culture Wars

Pastors in Springfield burn Quran - Motorists honk in support.

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Posted by Besoeker 2010-09-12 14:32|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Can't help but imagine Homer Simpson being involved somehow.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-09-12 18:11|| 2010-09-12 18:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Homer is probably thinking you can get the American masses whipped into a fighting frenzy without burning their stupid book. That we can get the average Joe to want to go to war in a civilized, orderly fashion to properly dispose of the supposedly few miscreants that have supposedly hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam. Who have either been at our throat or at our knees since its inception.

Posted by gorb 2010-09-12 18:49|| 2010-09-12 18:49|| Front Page Top

#3 yes but its the wrong enemy

the real enemy is:

1) our own multiculti culture. When we first learned who flew the planes into towers, we should have just ended islamic immigration immediately and locked down muslims ie: religious profiling. vigilant surveillance of mosque, movements etc. They should be registered and watched.

then there would be no further problem.

That is what Britain would have done circa 1945, isn't that what we did with Japanese in the war? We actually had internment camps. Tough but necessary.

2) the real enemy is CHINA. we can waste ourselves fighting never-ending battles with the mohammeds in the desert but China is sitting there waiting to crush us. They are getting stronger militarily and they own a big chunk of US Debt.
If they own too much they will be able to smash the US$ at will and hurt the economy even more.

Posted by anon1 2010-09-12 18:54|| 2010-09-12 18:54|| Front Page Top

#4 But why aren't all the muslim-rage-boys raging?

Oh yeah, these koran-burners weren't phoned by SecDef Gates, denounced by Obama and Patreaus, visited by the FBI, and featured all week on every American news network.

Funny how that works.

Posted by kcs 2010-09-12 19:05|| 2010-09-12 19:05|| Front Page Top

#5 When we first learned who flew the planes into towers, we should have just ended islamic immigration immediately and locked down muslims ie: religious profiling. vigilant surveillance of mosque, movements etc. They should be registered and watched.

We did a lot of that here in America, anon1, shortly after 9/11. The word went out that all Muslim men over the age of 18 had to be legally registered, either with a valid visa, green card, or citizenship, or they would be summarily deported, along with all non-valid dependents. There were actual lines at the Canadian border crossings, people who'd been here for for years, even decades, along with their American-born children who'd never seen the home country (mostly Pakistan). Bugs were quietly installed in the mosques, web sites and phones were listened in on, and the quiet moderates started turning in the radicals. Our public radio had a series of reports about how unfair it was to those fleeing, with heavy weight on the plight of the children being sent back to those benighted countries.

I don't know if anyone kept track of the numbers of those who left, and how many were connected to nefarious organizations. I hope so, if only so the trackers can sleep better at night, knowing what was prevented by those simple actions.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-09-12 19:40|| 2010-09-12 19:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Somebody had to do it.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2010-09-12 19:40|| 2010-09-12 19:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Too bad that a religion is so devoid of substance that an object made of paper becomes an object of reverence. I think that Allah AND our Christian god warns us about objects being a substitute of faith. A crucifix in urine disappoints me but a crucifix is not the sum total of my faith. Burn a bible? Not going to shake me because I have MORE to that in my faith.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-09-12 20:39|| 2010-09-12 20:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks TW, another home run.

Posted by Skidmark 2010-09-12 21:59|| 2010-09-12 21:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Here's the transcript of that NPR report. I'm going to post it as an article for tomorrow, too, because it is important to understand why there was no cascade of attacks on U.S. soil after 9/11.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-09-12 23:58|| 2010-09-12 23:58|| Front Page Top

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