Koran

I hope you told your relatives that you were the councillor for Church, (founded 642 AD by St Oswald) and thus knew a hell of alot more about Christianity than they did (USA, founded 1776 by gun runners and tax dodgers).
 
I hope you told your relatives that you were the councillor for Church, (founded 642 AD by St Oswald) and thus knew a hell of alot more about Christianity than they did (USA, founded 1776 by gun runners and tax dodgers).
I certainly did and I even give them a link to Accyweb and said if they really wanted to know what was happening in the UK it would be a good idea to join the site and find out what ordinary people thought. But sadly they thought they knew everything about our country from reading articles in the press (both US and UK) and watching You Tube videos.
 
Maybe , just maybe if all the bleating kow-towing present day politicians ,(National and Local ,in the UK/Europe and the US) had paid a bit more attention to their school history lessons we wouldn't be in the mess we now find ourselves ....... anyone remember the siege of Vienna ,(for me it was either Mrs Evan's or Mrs Harrisons History class at Gt, Harwood 'top' Council school), or a maybe a crap Hollywood movie called "El Cid" . The 'West' has been at war with Islam's on-slought for 600 years and each time the only way we have defeated and proteced our way of life/culture is through military force.
Re. the loony religious nut from Florida and the Koran book burning .....the guy is a nut, but where has there been any national outrage when the followers of 'Allah' burn the Union Jack or Old Glory on the streets of Islamabad / Kabul or even London , my view , its time to stop treating these people like naughty children with the modern methods of a time-out and go back to the old ways where a good smack worked wonders , and if a 'smack includes dropping a few bombs or chemicals on kids harvesting the opium crop in Afghanistan so be it , means less heroin on the streets of London or New York . ;)
 
After Celerity Big Brother, they burned effigies of Jade Goody in India.

A short time later she was dead.

Perhaps this will be and end to religious conflict.

:rolleyes:

I presume Muslims won't be burning their books, so I wonder how many spare copies of the Qur'an there are in this Florida town?

Perhaps this nutter flogs books, as well as furniture, and has over ordered on some stock lines.

He might be some lone loon, but if he copies what the Nazis did, he'll put lives at risk.

Religions, sanctuaries for idiots.
 
Of course,as we all know this setting fire to things all started with Moses and his burning bush.
Bit ironic really,Right name,Wrong Bush.:hehetable
 
Of course, the muslims never burn anything.

They must be upset because they have 1st dibs on burning our bibles, flags, images etc.

The whole thing is just pathetic & they show how backward they are by getting so pent up about it.
All the more reason for not following suit, burning the Koran makes these peope no better than the Islamic Nuts
 
For once John and I are singing from the same hymn sheet on this one (which is very rare I know).

I will tell you about an dialogue I have been having for the last couple of weeks with some American 'christians', which shows just how insular and extreme some Americans are.
2 Weeks ago one of my American relatives posted a You Tube video on Facebook purporting to be about how in the UK there were mass protests because we had lost the right to bear arms. The video lasted about 5 mins and most of it was taken from the 2002 march for Liberty and Livelihood with interviews from marchers. What it failed to make clear was these people were not protesting about gun controls in the UK. I posted back to her telling her the truth both about the march and what the position on guns was here in the UK. I was then subjected to a tirade of abuse about my ignorance of what was happening in the UK and that we were virtually an Islamic state.

This was all from someone who has never visited England and advocates that it is everyone's god given right to own a gun and use it when they feel they need to protect themselves. She (and several of her friends who also joined in 'debate') are very extreme right wing Christians who would agree with burning of the Koran - unfortunately there are some very weird perversions of the Christian Church in the US - who don't appear to consider the consequences.
Extremism in all its forms is extremely worrying. I just hope that either this man is stopped or he bares the responsibility of his actions.
Nothing surprise me about lots of things in the States Joan, For ages now I've watch the documentary chanels on TV every night, and some of the weird and wonderful things they Yanks come up with are priceless, and I totally agree with your last statement too
 
I reckon i'ts all media hype and is easily done.. some nutter in some small crappy part of this planet has decided to burn the Koran.. a few phone calls to the local press and we end up with this rubbish as international news..

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Don't thin you can cal it media hype Mancie when Secretary of State Hilary Clinton makes a statement on the affair
 
I certainly did and I even give them a link to Accyweb and said if they really wanted to know what was happening in the UK it would be a good idea to join the site and find out what ordinary people thought.....

Thank your for the best laugh I have had for a long time :D:D:D:D
 
Don't thin you can cal it media hype Mancie when Secretary of State Hilary Clinton makes a statement on the affair

It gets worse, Obama has now become embroiled in it and has spoken on TV - OK, he said it was wrong, but all the more publicity for the nutter. Lived there for over 3 years and I experienced some of this type of rubbish at first hand.
 
Nothing surprise me about lots of things in the States Joan, For ages now I've watch the documentary chanels on TV every night, and some of the weird and wonderful things they Yanks come up with are priceless, and I totally agree with your last statement too

If I based my knowlege of the US on the programmes on the documentary channels I would have a very distorted view of the lives for the majority of the American people.

I was attempting (rather unsuccessfully as it turned out) to correct the misconceptions that my relative and her friends had of the UK, because they made their judgements from You Tube videos etc.
 
A suitable thought from Jonathan Swift ?

" We have just enough religion to make us hate , but not enough to make us love one another ."
 
So some petty minded closed group of morons decide they will have a bring and burn book club.
What are the chances that the members of this group will have a copy of it in amongst their well read library of Batman and Superman comics, well lets be honest, zero. So to gain entrance to the bonfire party they will first have to find a bookshop, this will be a learning curve for them, They and by the sound of it thousands of others buy the Koran in this one off deal.

The bookshop owner goes off to his wholesalers and buys extra copies, the wholesaler needs to supply his demand and gets in touch with his publisher and he buys extra copies.
The Publisher orders the printers to let them roll we have orders to fill.
Somehow I think as well as upsetting people of the faith that wants to read that particular book these fools will have spent their money boosting the profits of the publishers on behalf of the prophets of that very faith.

The same goes for flag burning, America probably keeps it's national debt down by supplying flags to be burnt by the extremists of other nations, it's good that they can reciprocate with their version of unnecessary global warming.
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The Pastor probably has the ability to print copies of the Koran - I hear it has been called off now.

Hope so. Such an ill conceived idea would open up such a outpouring of hatred worldwide that we would all suffer. Did he see sense (doubtful) did the authorities "knuckle him (more likely) or were the death threats piling up most definately) on is door mat and in his email inbox?
 
If I based my knowlege of the US on the programmes on the documentary channels I would have a very distorted view of the lives for the majority of the American people.

I was attempting (rather unsuccessfully as it turned out) to correct the misconceptions that my relative and her friends had of the UK, because they made their judgements from You Tube videos etc.
I was actually thinking on documented cases in the states Joan, things we've heard of here but don't know the inside stories, but I would think everybody would agree with you on YouTube, myself I only ever use it for music
 
In my own opinion what the pastor is doing is probably ill advised, but you wouldnt build a nazi history museum next to auschwitz, so why the hell should they be allowed to build a mosque near ground zero.Its more about respect than racism.
 
In my own opinion what the pastor is doing is probably ill advised, but you wouldnt build a nazi history museum next to auschwitz, so why the hell should they be allowed to build a mosque near ground zero.Its more about respect than racism.

Very poor analogy. The level of separation between the Mosque and Ground Zero means that, if we are to try to amend your analogy, it's much more like having a museum to Robert Wagner being situated next to Auschwitz than anything directly linked to Nazism.

So many people erroneously see the Qur'an as the instruction manual and the Mosque as the training centre for extremist behaviour from those of the Islam faith. I'd wager that those kind of misgivings do more harm to the world than the nutty Pastor in America. After all, it was the media that gave him a podium.
 
Very poor analogy. The level of separation between the Mosque and Ground Zero means that, if we are to try to amend your analogy, it's much more like having a museum to Robert Wagner being situated next to Auschwitz than anything directly linked to Nazism.
That'll teach me about trying to multi-task after a long day. Of course, I meant Richard! :o:)
 
I'm just wondering .... in view of this http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...protest_in_Accrington_over_Koran_burn_threat/ " what would happen if Accy webs uber liberals Garinda/Gayle Knight/Claytonender/Ken Moss etc. and even Council leader Britcliffe decided to organize and hold a march from Ossy "Art's theatre/cultural center " down Union Road to 'Church Commercial' and then along Blackburn Road to Accy Town Hall to protest the Sharia Law death penalty imposed on Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani the Iranian woman facing stoning to death , would such a spontaneous procession/demonstration be allowed without police interference...and how many of the locals who live along the route would join in .
just curious ;)
 
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