Well it's official, the terrorist have won. Because of pressure from Islamic terrorist around the globe and our own government a Florida pastor says his church will not do what the Bill of Rights and Constitution guarantee him the freedom to do: burn a book.
Am I the only one that sees this as a huge FAIL for the US? That we've fallen so far that we're afraid to burn a book because a terrorist says not to? Why didn't anyone defend this pastor? Doesn't he have the right to burn any book he wants? If he burnt a Christian Bible or Hebrew Bible no one would have cared, but because it's a Koran and thousands of angry protesters chanted "Death to the Christians" and "Down with America" he didn't. If Muslims burnt Bibles would there be a protest in the US? Probably not, and even if there was a protest no one would shout "Death to the Muslims".
Why are we afraid? If it really is only a few extremist then we have nothing to fear, but if it really is the entire Islamic religion then perhaps this is a religion we don't want in the US, perhaps Islam is a cult like Tennessee's lieutenant governor said recently.
Some have said that if he burnt a Koran it would cause violence against Americans in the Middle East, but why is it his fault if he burns a Koran and a Muslim kills an American in Afghanistan? Shouldn't that prove Muslims are completely crazy? Perhaps by burning a few Korans he could have proved to the world how ridiculous the Islamic religion is if they started violence over a few books being burnt, although based on the reactions I think he's already acheived his goal.