This Iranian guy persists in posting this one sided propaganda.
He is probably a government stooge.

The strategy of the Islamists is to use the freedoms inherent in the Western countries against them,for example the freedom of the press.

If we were to post a one sided article such as his in any Iranian media,it surely wouldn't be published and quite likely a knock on the door in the early hours of the morning would follow.

He conveniently omits to state how the Islamists are treating non Muslims,including hatred for churches and other Christian symbols, sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam, apostasy and blasphemy laws, theft and plunder in lieu of jizya (tribute)and overall expectations for Christians to behave like cowed "dhimmis" (barely tolerated citizens).

Just outright oppression.

Plus of course plenty of violence and murder.

Often it is a combination of all or some of these.

Maybe his dubious talents could be better employed in defending the rights of all the persecuted minorities in his and other Moslem countries.

It always amazes that Islamists can have the gall to expect other countries to behave (much) better than the way they behave towards non Muslims and their minorities.

Quite incredible!!

I remember when with tax payer dollars we had to tolerate the "art" of a cross of Jesus in a jar of urine and a picture of Mary, mother of Jesus with elephant dung on it. Burning a Koran is probably considered art by those same Americans. Terry could probably get paid for burning a Koran by the National Endowment of the Arts (provided he did it very artistically - maybe he could play music and dance while doing it).

I remember when with tax payer dollars we had to pay for the "art" of a cross of Jesus in a jar of urine and a picture of Mary, mother of Jesus with elephant dung on it. Burning a Koran is probably considered art by the same Americans. Terry could probably get paid to burn a Koran from The National Endowment For the Arts (provided he did it very artistically - maybe he could play music and dance will burning it).

How can we ever hope of convincing the stupid that they're wrong when some of our people are even more stupid ?

Burning a printed copy of a book is described as "one of the most heinous and dreadful actions which one can think of"

It comes nowhere close. Flying a plane full of people into the side of a building occupied by other people might come close. Taking people hostage and tormenting them for months before beheading them (with associated video recording) might come close.

Denying women education and demanding they be covered from head to foot because you might have an impure thought is way ahead of burning books.

Excusing pack rape on the basis that the victim is seen as uncovered meat is worthy of far more outrage. Punishing victims of rape is way ahead of the burning of books.

Destroying massive almost irreplaceable ancient sculptures from another faith is not near the top of the list but it way outranks the burning of copies of a widely available book.

The list could go on and on.

It's a copy of a book, burning individual copies does not take anything from anybody. The books that have or may be burnt are not the last copies in the world, if the numeric number of books is important print some more.

The book burnings are rude and say a lot more about those who burn them than about the book. The level of outrage at the burning of books compared to the limited outrage displayed over a range of atrocities says even more about those who consider that book to be of some worth.

R0bert

Crikey, it's hard to maintain a belief in the intrinsic niceness of Moslems and Islam when the burning of a book leads to calls for extra-judicial killing by the US govt and fears of violent actions against people who had absolutely nothing to do with the burning.

Could we get an answer to the "download the Koran and then later delete" question, as many of students of religion have done this? I do not want to die for an inadvertent crime