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Originally Posted by RVCA
Erm, "law of the land"? It's most certainly within his rights as an American citizen to burn whatever book he wants to. It would be disgusting, yes, but for us to prevent him from doing so would violate the first amendment.
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Can't the first amendment be changed? It's not written in stone.
Obviously, I'm not an American citizen so forgive me this opinion.
Yours is a tolerant society which includes people of all religion, why then can't the amendment be amended to include measures against incitement to religious hatred?
Freedom of speech is one thing, after all it's not illegal to criticise someone about their religion, or their beliefs, but allowing physical acts like desecrating holy scriptures encourages religious hatred and in this case, could also be deemed as racial hatred.
What he was going to do (in my opinion) was to commit an aggravated act (crime) with prejudice, while inciting religious and racial hatred.
Zaqarbal...I think we both know the difference between saying "I hate Islam so much" and burning the Koran.
Good luck convincing the nutters.