Banjo Paterson,

I'm not sure what point you making by mentioning the atrocities committed by the Crusaders, as Moslems were equally guilty of barbarous behaviour.The Crusades should be seen in context, they were,in fact, a counter-attack against the previous 400 years of Moslem attacks on Christian lands.
The Islamic threat to Europe ceased in the 19th century only because the West had achieved overwhelming military and industrial superiority,not because Moslem societies had renounced aggressive expansion.

Moslem propagandists usually present the Crusades as simply a product of European expansionsism,that is self-serving nonsense. That interpretation is as ludicrous as if the Japanese claimed that WW2 consisted entirely of US air-raids on Japan.

Mac

Better still would be to ask Ulis and all the brain dead followers of Islam who are also mainly Arab why it is that 30m jews can produce 180 Nobel Prizes, but 2bn arabs can only do 8.

Thats telling us all something about the relativity of it all.

Next we could tlak about the hypocrisy of the Islamic/Muslim religion that insists upon having access to the west, and assert their rights conveyed by our tolerance and liberal democratic institutions..but can never explain why these same rights are not available in the dumps they came from.

Saudi arabia would be the worst ..closely followed by pretty well of them. Just google Freedom House and get a list.

Next to that we could ask him about the appalling behaviour of the OIC in the UN and the Durban 1 & 2 Human rights conferences where they are actively worked to shut down the very things they all want to migrate to, and then alter.

To hell with Islam and their medieval idiocies.

I reckon to hell with all religious idiocies which have been plaguing the world for thousands of years and feeding conflict!

We are all humans but far too many of us are deranged by the claims of religion which have not a shred of evidence to support them.

How come humans, if they get sick, want to employ a specialist with proven qualifications and skills but when it comes to religion they accept the words of people who can offer no evidence for their claims except for some ancient manuscripts that came out of the Stone Ages?

There's one born every minute!

http://www.dangerouscreation.com

The Associated Press reported on the 9th September 2010
that FBI agents visited the Florida church over
the Quran burning and spoke to Pastor Jones several
times. The Governor of the state is also monitoring
events quite closely. President Obama has made several
appeals to the Pastor - it looks like things are taking
a turnaround.

TO Muqtedar Khan,

you say:

"Books are . . . the soul of civilisation. A society must abandon basic decencies in order to muster the immoral courage to burn books as a celebratory act. Once it starts burning the souls of civilisation, human souls will not be left behind."

I agree with these sentiments. However, Islamic societies everywhere are in need of education on these ideals more than any other culture.

Suadi Arabia offically burns bibles if they are found in luggaege of incoming passengers. That is one of the richest countries on earth, and it boasts some of the main authorities on Islam who back these practices, as well as the banning of the existence of Christian churches in their lands. Most other gulf states are the same.

As for books though, well, what books? In Islamic societies exists the lowest rates for a literate culture of transaltion of foreign books into Arabic. The amount of non-muslim/non-Arabic books translated into Arabic in a period of 500 years is about the same amount that a country like Spain translates in only 1 year.
There are many sources that confirm these kinds of rates. I dare you to check UN stats for instance.

To me, this represents an extremely racist and xenophobic culture. Burning the Quran is the least we should do to protest this human atrocity of a totalitarian civilization.

I see muslim protesters burned the American flag outside the US Embassy in London, now is that just to protest, or just the usual show of muslim tolerance?

So to protest someone burning something they hold sacred, they burn something that ALL Americans hold sacred.

So who is it here is stirring the pot?

If muslims don't want people to burn their holy book, then stop burning peoples flags.

It's not just a "flag" to Americans it is the symbol of their great country and it makes them very angry to see this, the muslims know this very well (which is why they do it) but then are indignant if an American wants to burn the koran.

So how about some demands of moderation by the muslims, and some indignation in these articles about the muslims deliberately trying to irritate the Americans?

I get the impression the muslims are spoiling for trouble and just continue to push the US and everyone else till they either fold and become muslims, or eventually fight back.

It might no t be today or tomorrow, but a lot of people are very worried that it will come sometime in the future - we don't seem to be able to avoid it and the lack of tolerance in muslims is astounding.