Dont u think its arrogance? i read the argument from one of the member that said something like he dont like a religious fanatics (still the definition is vague, but if he mean by that its religious extremist, extreme is a term that u over do something that it should be, i must agree with the statement) both muslim and christian. And he also dont like a the consequences that burning a religious book being respond by a harsh punishment. In advance he add, in that consequence, if that is the consequence of burning a holy book then u should try to burn or do something nasty with the holybook. Yet he still call it holy book its a sign that he already know that this book are consider holy and very important for some peoples but he found he have no care to respect it and he should try to spit at it at least one time so he can go to bed peacefully after he knows he already do nasty thing to someone.
I tell u the muslim respond will not change, i tell u that. But u must know that u bring a problem for something that isnt worth a problem at all if u have a normal attitude in respecting other. And for your information its not only Quran but also Torah, and Vedha being treat as the same important and holy by their believer. A jew, will wash them self, treat the torah in honor and put a lots of respect for their torah before they start recite it, because in their believe that this book is the work of God. And they will punish u in the same manners and fatal punishment if u dare to burn their holy scripture. Dont u ever ever try.
And why we muslim dont burn the bible in return? do bible have any fault for this? is the bible who take the responsibility for such an act? that is illogical, i dont know what is the base argument behind this insane solution. And take another note, we will never burn the bible, even if the pope is the one who burn the Quran we will never blame the bible, its the pope not the bible, both are different both with words, name, existence and everything, one is book and other is human. Easy eh? and if there is among our brother and sister burn the bible we will be the first one who will justify their horrible and barbaric act.
Why dont he try burn a Mao Tze Dong essay in china? see if they not turning him into a noodle or a meat ball and put him on packaging and sold to the nearest market place.
I tell u this Things that drive him to burn these books is ignorance, and arrogance. He fail to respect other society different, He even fail to tolerate other keeping the honor of their believe.
And he can do everything what he want, despite of his arrogance, think there will be a consequence. Now US troops already lost half million soul in Khurasan or Afghanistan, they were back up by various super power country name it Usa, Britain, Dutch, Korea and many more with their modern outfit, fighting against this simple peoples, who limit both in number and military, and they are loosing grasp step by step even though they overwhelming their opponent with everything, now the dutch already send their troops home to their mother and wives, i hope other will follow the same step. Its maybe less then 5 percent of muslim peoples participating.
And he wonder "what if the whole usa burn the holy Quran", the answer is simple, that will wake the whole muslim world, many of them are sleeping right now and u sure have lots of problem with only few of them. And if their awake? u will face an opponent that love death more then u love your life. And praise to The Almighty, not all the american is as stupid and brute like that him.
Yes we are religion of peace, but we are not teach for being weak, to let other dishonor the pride of our wife like they do in Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan in the prison and on the street, to spit at our holy scripture, and bombing our house, no no, u cant do what your grand grand father do to Aztec, Sioux, Inca, its entirely different.
Nearly thousand year muslim rule the world, from africa, to europe, and what Goethe, Nietzsche, Fisher, Max Dammot about us? we are the most tolerance on culture diversity, isnt it they tell u? your western artist and philospher? we let christian have their own law, honor them and let their establish their pray with protection, give them their right. Instead of pillaging the spain establishing the concept of imperialism, we build them, enrich them, Cordoba, Andalus, are even more beautiful then the muslim capital itself. And we are the peoples who can tolerate other religious different and believes in history, isnt that what Karen Armstrong tell us in her book, History Of God?
And while they take a lead, we just need a simple thing, leave us alone and dont mess with us. But, they dont give even that very simple request from us.
And there are one member said, "i will never even burn Hitler book"
he know the point even im not agreeing on most of his post. And i do have Mein Campf, even i dont like Hitler since i was a kid and watching my first Schinderlist movie. But this man, can make a german from a poor country after loosing their war into a super-power on both economy and military, only on a few years. Why we have to be a fatalist to burn a book from something that we thought they are bad, while we dont clearly know why we really hate them.
If some-one burn books, that he dont know clearly about it, and he dont care. Then this some one is an extremist. And that man, who want to tease muslim by burning Quran, are indeed a zealot and extremist in his own ideology and narrow minded point of view.
I really hope from now on, we can really live peacefully with other. With respect and tolerance, removing all the arrogance and hatred that have no base at all in our hearth.
Salam