Originally Posted by Vanilla

Exactly! Just what I was thinking.

I love how America tries to act all innocent in this situation.

Has anyone here actually read the Quran? Because I'm sensing some serious ignorance.

For example

"Whoever then acts aggressively against you, inflict injury on him according to the injury he has inflicted on you" verses (2:194)

verses (60:8-9)
God only forbids you respecting and loving those who made war upon you on account of your religion, and drove you forth from your homes and backed up others in your expulsion, that you make friends with them, and whoever makes friends with them, these are the unjust." The Quran does not present Islam as a religion of unquestionable pacifism or relentless aggression. Those who do not transgress should be treated humanely and benevolently with complete respect. Those who transgress should be fought, "And fight in the cause of God those who fight against you, and do not commit aggression.

From the woman herself:

Catherine Heseltine, chief executive officer of the Muslim public affairs committee, said burning the Qur'an was one of the most offensive acts to Muslims she could imagine.

"The Qur'an is the most sacred thing to over a billion Muslims worldwide. You can see that in the way Muslims treat the Qur'an, washing before touching it, and in many Muslim homes you will find it on the top shelf above all other books, and we will never destroy the Qur'anic texts."

This, is why people there have reacted the way they did. You might as well have spit on their face.

Originally Posted by Tuna

That book is not the law, so stop trying to justify what they did with it. What kind of a stupid book promotes hatred, revenge, and violence?

And for the record, it says for them to inflict the injury on them according to what they did to you? They burned a book, killing is on a whole other level. You should really be ashamed for trying to justify cold-blooded murder against innocents (who didn't even take part in the burning).

And typical of you to cast America as some umbrella where an individual's actions represent the country as a whole's thoughts.

Originally Posted by Tuna

That book is not the law, so stop trying to justify what they did with it. What kind of a stupid book promotes hatred, revenge, and violence?

And for the record, it says for them to inflict the injury on them according to what they did to you? They burned a book, killing is on a whole other level. You should really be ashamed for trying to justify cold-blooded murder against innocents (who didn't even take part in the burning).

And typical of you to cast America as some umbrella where an individual's actions represent the country as a whole's thoughts.

Originally Posted by Tuna

That book is not the law, so stop trying to justify what they did with it. What kind of a stupid book promotes hatred, revenge, and violence?

And for the record, it says for them to inflict the injury on them according to what they did to you? They burned a book, killing is on a whole other level. You should really be ashamed for trying to justify cold-blooded murder against innocents (who didn't even take part in the burning).

And typical of you to cast America as some umbrella where an individual's actions represent the country as a whole's thoughts.

Originally Posted by Buzzov*en

Have you ever actually read the book or are you just going with what people who have never read it say about the book?

Originally Posted by Il Duce

I'd say the latter