"A tiny Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Qur'an on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks has triggered fears in the White House of a violent backlash against American troops overseas."
That's Sheldon Alberts' lead in his Calgary Herald article this morning about the wing nut in FLA who is going to burn the Qur'an Saturday. The wing nut has a name, Terry Jones and a job, he is the pastor of the the 50-member Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, the home of the Gators.
His church is mainline hardline Christian, you know, anti-gay, anti-abortion, if you ain't one of us you are burning.
Still, it is America and what makes them [and hopefully us but I have my worries] better than the other them is the fact that if you are a wing nut you can do wing nutty stuff like burn the Qur'an.
Y'see, and a lot of people have trouble grasping this concept including whomever wrote our hate laws, freedom of speech is not there to protect accepted speech, it is there to protect what is outside the box, what is radical, weird and, in this case and in my opinion, plain wrong.
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