We can safely file this entire shit for brains episode under “how religion makes you stupid and how it makes you do stupid things” or even “religious belief = full on pants-on-head retarded”.
Islam the aptly named religion of peace is responsible for the recent riots and the killing of (more) innocents in Afghanistan. Of course we almost instantly know when Westerners are killed in Afghanistan. Contrast this story with the media coverage of the native people are slaughtered every day in Afghanistan if when they are counted. Pro-innocent civilian death concerns aside, the general assholery of war seems to have gone exponential as of late. People are losing their minds because some crack pot christian god-bag in Florida burnt a Qur’an or two. It is therefore logical to riot and kill people because you burnt their magic book. (!)
“At least nine people were killed and dozens more injured Saturday after protests took a violent turn in Kandahar city, the office of the Kandahar government said.
On Friday, Afghans protesting the Qur’an burning stormed a United Nations compound in northern Afghanistan, killing seven foreigners.”
Unbelievable. People have to die because the extra-deluded are getting their shit in a twist over the actions of a christian
fundy-loon in Florida. It gets better though. Pastor Dense as fracking Neutron-star has the gall to say this:
Wayne Sapp, a pastor at the church, called the events “tragic” but said he did not regret the actions of his church.
“I in no way feel like our church is responsible for what happened,” Sapp said in a telephone interview on Friday.”
This epitome of douchatude does not “feel like our church is responsible” for what happened. Out here in rational land the stupid meters just fused solid. As a self appointed spokesperson of the atheist rationalist community let me spell this gordion knot of a problem out for you.
Many muslims are batshite-crazy deluded over their magic book. Given previous incidents (cartoons etc) it takes little in the way of worldly knowledge to guess what would happen if you well..oh say..publicize and then burn their mystical tome of puerile foolishness religious righteousness. I may have spoken too soon, perhaps this wisdom of the ages does escape the religious as they do have the tendancy to avoid facts when dealing with reality. How many other groups of people that, with the fracking Everest sized mountain of evidence for evolution crammed sideways up their ass, can still bray about the veracity of the biblical flood and the other assorted creationist mind-farts they purport to believe in?
I’ll be charitable and say only a select portion of christians are as ass-backwards as their Islamic counterparts. Don’t get too smug my christian friends, this slots you only milimeters above those with a profound belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.
So essentially, this is a story about two religiously addled groups who possess only the IQ necessary to breath and pray, insulting each other and seeing who wins the title for committing flossing-baby-out-of-your-teeth evil.
“An Associated Press photographer estimated the crowd at a few thousand and said demonstrators had smashed his camera and roughed up other journalists.
The desecration of the Qur’an has outraged millions of Muslims and others worldwide.”
The level of backward, barbaric, nuclear grade stupidity has also outraged the non addled worldwide.






4 comments
April 5, 2011 at 7:23 am
tildeb
It’s not that the koran was burned by a christian; as Harris rightly points out Muslims appear to be far more concerned about perceived slights to their religion than about the atrocities committed daily in its name. Our accommodation of this psychopathic skewing of priorities has, more and more, taken the form of craven and blinkered acquiescence.
Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn’t, we peaceful Muslims cannot be held responsible for what our less peaceful brothers and sisters do. When they burn your embassies or kidnap and slaughter your journalists, know that we will hold you primarily responsible and will spend the bulk of our energies criticizing you for “racism” and “Islamophobia.”
I think it falls to those of us who are rational and reasonable to see that Jones has every right – regardless of his motivation to do so – to burn whatever book he wants. How others respond to this reveals the quality of their reasoning.
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April 5, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Bleatmop
Jones has every right to burn that book just as I have every right to piss on a bible. Doing so is provocative , childish and immature, but Jones holds no responsibility for the repugnant response to his puerile actions. Just because people feel their religious sensibilities are affronted does not give them the right to go batshit crazy and start killing people, especially people who had nothing to do with what happened. While I sometimes joke that religion causes brain damage, it in fact does not, and these people are still in complete control of their actions. And their actions speak poorly of them.
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April 6, 2011 at 10:55 am
Vern R. Kaine
Well said.
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April 7, 2011 at 5:27 am
Alan Scott
I’ve seen videos of others disrespecting Qur’ans and I have not seen the same violence as this incident . I believe these videos are seen in the same areas as the other . Seems to be selective outrage and murder .
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