Burn Or Not Burn?

Protesters burn a church in Sukkur, 480kms northeast of Karachi, Pakistan.

The burning question of the day seems to be whether a small church in Florida should go ahead with it's planned event to burn at least one Koran, different reports have different numbers on just how many of the terrorists handbooks should be burned. Guess I tipped my hand there.

Today the old dinosaur media is running the story of how Gen Petraeus and some of the other commanders with actual skin in the game feel about this event. They see a growing resentment in Afghanistan since news of this has made it over there and hope the church will rethink their plans. They cite a very real threat to the soldiers serving and possible long term impacts to what they are trying to accomplish. I respect their opinion greatly and thus am left in a position that is most uncomfortable.

I don't for one second believe that the Taliban or Al-Queda will quit for one second in their pursuit of killing Americans. The question is will it give them more cult followers willing to strap on explosives and become part of the red spray parade that is emblematic of the Islamic faith. I am tired of being told that we need to be sensitive to the Muslim culture. I am sick and tired of handing this fight to them all in the name of not offending their delicate nature.

I think we have seen how delicate their feelings are in the constant stream of stories of them gassing girls in schools. beheading those who disagree, stoning of women for the pleasure of a machismo society they have, and the very graphic stories of the torture chambers and houses which hold their prisoners.

Somewhere there has to be a line drawn in the sand and the civilized western world as got to tell the barbarians that we will no longer agree to their demands and extortion or pay their protection money. Allowing them to dictate the terms under which we are allowed to act is the same as living by their rules. In other words it is sharia by stealth.

I will really worry about Muslim sensitivities when I see a Catholic cathedral built in Saudi Arabia, when possession of a Bible in an Arab country is not subject to the death penalty and murderers of civilians are not heralded as heroes.

Afterthought: Maybe I am just in a bad mood because today we are burying two service members from the local area, one Marine and one soldier, who were killed in Afghanistan recently. Some how burning a Koran just doesn't rate up there.

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Teacher Tortures Blind Boy For Not Learning Koran

The joys of Islam.

Such a beautiful, peaceful religion.

A BLIND seven-year-old student at an Islamic school in eastern Pakistan has died after his teacher punished him for not learning the Koran, police said today.

Muhammad Atif was hung upside down from a ceiling fan and severely beaten by his teacher, Qari Ziauddin, at the seminary or madrassa in Vihari, near Lahore on Thursday, they said.

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had ordered in inquiry into the death, an official statement said.

"The Prime Minister has expressed his deep sorrow and concern over the tragic death of Muhammad Atif, who reportedly died as a result of corporal punishment by his teacher,'' the statement said.

Police said the teacher had been arrested on charges of torturing and murdering the boy.

"Qari Ziauddin, who teaches Koran to boys in Qari Latif Islamic school, hanged Atif upside down with a ceiling fan in the school after beating him with sticks, which caused his death,'' local police official Akram Niazi said.

They should do the same to this monster.

Muslims Freak Out Over New Koran Translation

Someone's about to lose their head. One can only wonder how many will be killed during the riots by the world's 357 billion Muslims.

Afghan Koran distributor arrested

The distributor of a new translation of the Koran has been arrested after complaints from religious scholars that the new edition was un-Islamic.

Former journalist Ghows Zalmay is also the spokesman for Afghanistan's attorney general.

He was arrested on the border on Sunday while trying to flee into Pakistan.

Not exactly the safest place to flee to these days.

Demonstrators protested in two Afghan provinces against the new translation of the Koran into Dari, one of Afghanistan's two official languages.

Religious scholars are outraged at the new edition of the Muslim holy book.

They say that it is un-Islamic, that it misinterprets verses about alcohol, begging, homosexuality and adultery.

They also complain that it does not contain the original version in Arabic as a parallel text for comparison.

Both houses of the Afghan parliament have held emergency debates.

Senators have called for Mr Zalmay and the translator, himself a mullah, to be punished.

One said Mr Zalmay was "worse than Salman Rushdie", whose book, The Satanic Verses, caused widespread outrage in the Islamic world.

Another said Mr Zalmay was under the protection of a foreign security company.

In the northern city of Taloqan 1,500 university students took to the streets in protest, while in the south-east province of Nimruz 1,000 local people, including several mullahs, took part in a demonstration.

These people are hysterical.

Flaming Mo, With Bacon

Gates of Vienna links the must see video and has some background.

Second Course: A Flaming Mo, With Bacon

In the video embedded below, you will see strips of bacon laid across a Koran before the book is set on fire. After that Mohammed is torched again. And there are other entertaining moments in this video which I won’t describe; you’ll have to watch.

The soundtrack is a German rock song — I hear the words “fire and water” in it, but otherwise can’t tell you what it’s about. Maybe some of our German-speaking readers can help with a translation.

Better watch this video now — you know it won’t be up for long!

Mentally Handicapped Man Charged With Blasphemy

If your mentally handicapped in Pakistan and set fire to your own house, things can get a bit strange if you happen to rent to a greedy moonbat relative.

Shahdara Town police on Saturday registered a blasphemy case against a mentally handicapped person for allegedly burning his house, which had a few copies of the Quran.

Should've had some Bibles, burning them is halal.

The case was registered against Nadir Ali under Section 295 B of the Pakistan Penal Code. The FIR stated that the incident took place on Friday. Shahid Maqbool, a relative of the accused who lived in the upper portion of the house on rent, is the complainant.

Several neighbours alleged that Shahid wanted to grab Nadir’s property because he was paying Nadir to live in the upper portion. Police said they had to register an FIR against Nadir on the orders of Assistant Superintendent of Police Tahir Mehboob after locals started demonstrating outside Shahdara Town police station. Police alleged that Shahid had convinced the locals that Nadir had burned copies of the Quran.

Daily Times has found that Nadir is an elderly person living in a house in Aslam Park, Street No 6, for several years. Nadir is mentally handicapped and does not meet his wife or children. He has brothers who are settled abroad. Nadir had given the upper portion of his house to Shahid Maqbool on rent.

Nadir allegedly set his house on fire, but got out of it in time. Shahid started alleging that Nadir had also burned a few copies of the Quran. Neighbours started protesting against Nadir outside the Shahdara Town police station. Police got to Nadir’s house and found burned out copies of the Quran and sent the accused to the Institute of Mental and Health Sciences on Jail Road.

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