Qur'an-burning pastor jailed before mosque protest
Newsbot @ Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:06 pm
Title: Qur'an-burning pastor jailed before mosque protest
Category: Religion
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-04-22 21:46:50
Mowich @ Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:06 pm
About time somebody took this creep down.
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:23 pm
Well let's face it, this guy ain't to bright if he's telling the judge to his face he don't care about no steenking court order.
Gotta wonder how inbred the congregation is there in ol' Six Toe County to follow this idiot.
ShepherdsDog @ Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:29 pm
Mowich Mowich:
About time somebody took this creep down.
Him, and any fundie(Christian, Jew or Muslim) who preaches/promotes 'jihad/crusade', or killing unbelievers and apostates, from any place of worship anywhere in NA.
Canadian_Mind @ Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:51 pm
Why couldn't protest denals by this be used in other states against the Westboro Baptists? 
SprCForr @ Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:01 pm
Well the tar baby is in mid air.
Religious fanaticism meets PC bureaucracy with constitutional rights thrown into the mix. Heated by agenda driven commentista's. It's gonna stick to someone...
martin14 @ Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:13 pm
Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:
Why couldn't protest denals by this be used in other states against the Westboro Baptists?
Because only Islam deserves protection from criticism in the US.
Everything else, especially servicemen, are fair game for everything.
commanderkai @ Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:38 pm
SprCForr SprCForr:
Well the tar baby is in mid air.
Religious fanaticism meets PC bureaucracy with constitutional rights thrown into the mix. Heated by agenda driven commentista's. It's gonna stick to someone...
Religious fanaticism meets PC bureaucracy with constitutional rights thrown into the mix. Heated by agenda driven commentista's. It's gonna stick to someone...
Exactly. This isn't something to celebrate. We all should be concerned about this. As much as this guy is a huge douchebag, it's certainly bringing up issues about the freedom of speech.
Like somebody mentioned, the Westboro Baptist Church, the massive douchefucks that they are, are legally allowed to protest funerals, disrupting a very tragic and solemn event for the families, and certainly can and will have religious significance to those families as well. And yet, this guy, another douchebag, can't?
ShepherdsDog @ Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:50 pm
The pricks that are allowed to protest(riot over) the caricaturization of their prophet and burn poppies on Remembrance Day. We can't have an everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others situation.
andyt @ Sat Apr 23, 2011 6:54 am
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
The pricks that are allowed to protest(riot over) the caricaturization of their prophet and burn poppies on Remembrance Day. We can't have an everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others situation.
Those riots were in Muslim countries - they don't have free speech anyway. Got nothing to do with this question.
This is getting close to yelling fire in a crowded theater stuff - no free speech to do that. I would like to give this pastor creep, and the poppy burners all the freedom of speech they want. If this causes other people to riot and attack them, well I'm sure the police will do their best to arrest the attackers. But, what if innocent people get hurt? What if cops get hurt trying to contain the riot? Seems like a tough call for he judge to have to make to me.
ShepherdsDog @ Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:02 am
$1:
Those riots were in Muslim countries -
Really? Denmark and Sweden are Muslim nations....news to me.
BionicBunny @ Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:23 am
And don't forget the burning of poppies and chanting "soldiers burn in hell" by Muslim extremists during the two minutes of silence last year. It was right near the Royal Albert Hall.
This article also concerns me that freedom of speech is being applied unfairly, where you are allowed more freedoms than everyone else because of your religion or skin colour. Kind of like what Canada is now when you think of it.
andyt @ Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:45 am
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
$1:
Those riots were in Muslim countries -
Really? Denmark and Sweden are Muslim nations....news to me.
OK. Well, still nothing to do with the US, they make their own decisions. Same with England and the poppies. Doubt if any of those countries "allowed" them to riot. As I say, I would like to allow all this stuff - have free speech. But then if there is a riot, the police get hurt having to deal with it, as well as innocent bystanders.
Taseko @ Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:48 am
andyt andyt:
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
The pricks that are allowed to protest(riot over) the caricaturization of their prophet and burn poppies on Remembrance Day. We can't have an everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others situation.
Those riots were in Muslim countries - they don't have free speech anyway. Got nothing to do with this question.
This is getting close to yelling fire in a crowded theater stuff - no free speech to do that. I would like to give this pastor creep, and the poppy burners all the freedom of speech they want. If this causes other people to riot and attack them, well I'm sure the police will do their best to arrest the attackers. But, what if innocent people get hurt? What if cops get hurt trying to contain the riot? Seems like a tough call for he judge to have to make to me.
Free speech and freedom of religion are paramount in a country like ours and the United States.
I think Pastor Terry Jones would have served his cause better by exercising his free speech in Afghanistan where it would do the most good. There are some who would have chipped in a few dollars to help the cause.
It wouldn't be that much for a one way ticket.
Thanos @ Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:03 am
This bastard did the equivalent of yelling out "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre as far as I'm concerned, so I guess the age-old common wisdom that free speech protection doesn't apply if someone else ends up getting killed as a byproduct of it has been scrap-heaped along with most everything else of our old common sense.