Dear rpg,

You are right. It is simple. It is obvious, but nobody says it.

Pastor Jones has the right to burn any book he likes. Nobody can force him not to, he lives in America.

Hopefully, he will reconsider his threat.

I think what david f says is absolutely right. It's simple but it isn't easy, and somebody should be saying it and I don't know why they aren't. It should be coming from Muslim leaders, and US and Western leaders.

I suspect there is not the political will on either side to take such a stand. I think there are too many powerful interests on both sides that prosper from discontent and instability. That's our tragedy.

Just listen to Tony Blair, flogging his memoir and still justifying the invasion of Iraq, while some of his fellow country men and women shout for him to be tried for war crimes.

While I really hope Jones doesn't burn the book, at the same time it does not sit well with me that an action that is perfectly legal in the USA is prevented by the threat of terrible retribution from another country

Stevenlmeyer = liar "Arjays outrageous claims about Jews banned from OLO in case I get so wounded by his posts that I go on a shooting spree in Flinders Station." No such words have eminated onto OLO ever from my posts.I expect an apology for your errant lies and mis- representations.

I'm a 911 truther.Most of you know this.The movement worldwide is enormous but small in the land of oz.

There are a multitude of anomolies in 911 that need to be addressed.
eg Mobile phones operating at impossible heights,scientific proof of nano thermite a highly sophistocated explosive used in all 3 buildings,why did it take 6 yrs to put out a sham report on WTC 7 which no plane impacted? ,people secretly making money on the stock market, steel girders hurled horizontally for 600 ft,human bone fragments found atop of buildings hundreds of feet away,photographic evidence of molten steel according to workers that flowed like lava,aircraft fuel will burn in optimum conditions to half the melting point of steel,concete pulverised to dust when there should have been layered structures due to pancaking,media announcing the collapse of WTC 7 20 minutes before it occurred,Larry Silverstein's infamous "pull it" and checking with his insurance co that they'd pay out on his controlled demolition,buildings defeying the laws of physics thus falling at freefall speeds thus impossible to explain.The anomolies go on and on.

I will debate anyone any time on the scientific facts.Just go to http://ae911truth.org/ and start the debate.So stevenlmeyer and others put up or shut up.Most of my detractors are gutless wonders.

It's refreshing to see a Muslim perspective. I am hoping to read more on topics such as the stoning of women adulterers, and also the march of the Taliban in Pakistan. Forcing girl children out of school, bombing their schools, killing teachers.... I hope you have reserved some moral outrage for these kinds of issues, Muqtedar Khan. The innocents of Pakistan's Swat Valley are denied their rights to education and peace, Sir.

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IN THE NAME OF GOD

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The righteous punishment decreed by Peter Jones and Osama bin Laden rings of similar inspiration for the First Crusade.

Radulph of Caen reports that during the siege of the city of Ma'arrat al Numan (today's Syria)in 1098: "some people said that, constrained by the lack of food, they boiled pagan adults in cooking-pots, impaled children on spits and devoured them grilled."

Another chronicler, Fulcher of Chartres, reporting on similar events during the First Crusade, wrote: "I shudder to tell that many of our people, harassed by the madness of excessive hunger, cut pieces from the buttocks of the Saracens already dead there, which they cooked, but when it was not yet roasted enough by the fire, they devoured it with savage mouth."

Albert of Aix remarked that "the Christians did not shrink from eating not only killed Turks or Saracens, but even dogs..."

[The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)]

In the Christian world, the memory of all this has long been lost in the sands of time. Not necessarily so for those who still live in those sands.

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ulis,

david f has already corrected your mistake,however-

Arabs are Semites in a cultural sense,but the dictionary definition of 'Anti-semite' is basically 'Jew hater',which Mohammed and his followers were, and some Moslems still are,the scientific definition is not relevant.You're confusing categories,a trap for the unwary,such as you.

Your historical references are also irrelevant,what have Islamic societies achieved lately? Name a developed progressive Moslem nation.