Is there some aspiring artist out there who can photograph a koran in a tank of urine? There's an NEA grant in it for you. Oh wait, that's only for desecrating Christian symbols. Nevermind.

I hope to be paid handsomely for my 'Poop Mohammed' sculpture.

snore.

Sorry ktinnyc -

Echoing JeffB

It's the people who kill because some paper got burnt who are the ones that need to have their heads checked (& repaired). You are ascribing the culpability in the wrong place. Big time.

The guys an asshole but like the ACLU said, his actions a) constitute free speech and b) have nothing to do with his job

If they catch him discriminating against a Muslim or any other passenger for a single second, can him again though. The ACLU wont help him that time.

While the dude should not have burnt the thing, cmon - who really cares... It's really not such a big deal and those that make a mountain out of a molehill are just as guilty (sorry if this offends your PC sensibilities)

Everyone has a right to be stupid -

You can be stupid all you want but when your stupidity gets other people killed you should really re-evaluate your actions.

people who kill because some printed paper got burnt are the ones that need to re-evaluate their actions.

Try this thought experiment

You've live in a country thats been at war for 40 years. You're illiterate. You survivie on 50 cents a day and your life expectancy is 40. The newest group of invaders are the Americans...they occupy your country 150K people...one day they shot some of your relatives...your puppet governement doesnt hold them accountable...then youre told some American burned your religuous texts...

is it so hard to imagine why the riots and deaths happen over the koran being burned.

It isnt fair to compare how you would react to someone burning a bible while living in the US...its not the same. far from it.

it all depends on what sacred cow you burn.

Remember Helen Thomas?

50 years on the job, said some truth about Palestine and everyone from the POTUS on down condemmed her...she lost her job....awards in her name were renamed for it...and what did she do? She acknowledged REALITY.

indeed, Its a strange country we have here.

What truth, and what is Palestine? You mean Israel, right?

Helen Thomas said that Israelis should return "home" to Germany and Poland, you know, where many of the nazi death camps were located that made them feel so at "home" in Europe.

think for yourself.

she said they should go back to Germany, Poland, America...there are no death camps in these places now...and there never were any in America.

She dared to suggest that Palestenians have rights too. The Holocaust does not give one group of people the right to ethnically cleanse another group of people...this is not offensive, its common sense.

"Palestinians" ceded their rights when they turned down the 1948 partition, and asked their Arab neighbors to invade and kill all the Jews living within the former British Mandate. They then went on to lose 5 wars.

Israel exists. Palestinians do not. They are properly labelled as Israeli Muslims. There has never been an independent nation of Palestine, even the Ottomans never governed it as a separate entity after conquering it from the Christians in 1292.

Maybe just maybe the Israelis are tired of all the suicide bombings, rocket attacks and sundry violence, not to mention that the palestinians break every peace agreement before the ink is even dry. If you want ethnic cleansing, look at the way non-muslims are treated in muslim countries, the Coptic Christians are being masscred and persecuted in Egypt every day, there was an attack on a christian cathedral in Iraq where 25 peaceful worshippers were were shot to death, the list of atrocities goes on.

Roger, I know exactly what you mean. I took over my current apartment by force, and I now keep the former tenants in the toilet. I am "tired" of the those tenants throwing sh!t at me.

Said apartment was never theirs, perhaps the street is a better choice than the toilet. Maybe if you stop throwing shit, the real apartment owner MIGHT be inclined to give you your own room.

Yah, but she didn't work for the government.

The 1st amendment binds the government.

It doesn't bind what private news agencies do.

I don't know about that.

For one the government did weigh in. The POTUS condemmed her.

and two, what value does the First Admendment have, when you can freely lose your job for saying something off the job that offends your boss? If thats the case, and I believe it is, the only people who truly have free speech are people with means who have nothing to lose by expressing themselves.

but thats not my point really. I don't think this guy should have lost his job for burning a book...books, flags, symbols, I couldnt care less about them.

but I find it interesting that some things are much more tolerated than others..

saying there is worldwide conspiracy of muslims to destroy and/or take over America which I something I read in national media regularly...is tolerated. Burning Korans, making fun of religious icons, if not supported by most Americans are discussed as a questions of free speech.

Whereas stating what the reality is about US FP in the ME...will get your ostratizied and sidelined quicker than all this all other stuff. And there will be no talk of free speech. It never comes up when talking about Helen. Its just 'shes a bigot...when will she die, etc'

There are lines you can cross and lines you can't cross...and to me thats not free speech.

btw, I like your posts natty.

dude, did you even read nattyb's response? it was crystal clear, but somehow you don't understand it.