What Koran burning? One small bunch of wackjobs says they’re going to burn Korans, and suddenly it’s the Crusades all over again (even though the vast majority of the violence of the Crusades was practiced against Europeans in Europe).
If you lived in the Middle East, you’d be more aware of all the “honor killings” where women and girls are killed by their own fathers, brothers, uncles and grandfathers if they do anything at all unusual, like wanting to marry somebody from a different clan, or fleeing to a women’s shelter to escape abuse.
OK Sottwell, thanks for that load of off-topic crud.
a) Honor killing is not sanctioned or condoned by any Islamic sect. It is cultural.
b) What’s your point? Are you saying that because some Muslims somewhere have sometimes done bad things, therefore the rising tide of anti-Muslim bigotry in the US is just perfectly fine and wonderful?
I was listening to NPR yesterday, and they were interviewing various American Muslims on the street, asking them how they felt about the Koran burning, the mosque burnings, and the political showboating surrounding the Ground Zero mosque. You know what they said? They said they’re more scared now than they were in the days immediately following 9/11.
Which of course, won’t matter one bit to you, Sottwell.
George W. Bush: “The terrorists hate us for our freedom.”
So, we take away the freedoms of Islamic Americans and they won’t hate us anymore.
Makes perfect sense.
Why not burn copies of the Koran? It’s certainly much more civil than burning the owners of said tomes. If burning an American flag can be protected as free speech, why then should burning the Koran not be afforded the same protection? Seems some of our “enlightened progressive” friends see only one side of the coin.
There are some people who make it their mission to make every single comments section on this site into just another Pibgorn site or just another Big Top site. Unfortunately, they seem to have all the stroke on GoComics.
However, it’s just a political cartoon fan that got loose.
I regret saying anything last night. This site is my sanctuary. The only place on GoComics that’s exclusively about Teresa’s strip, her blog, and nighthawks’s pint-sized private parts.
“Coming off the holiday weekend, Google’s homepage on Tuesday featured a doodle with a variety of fast-moving, colored balls. While some speculated the interactive logo was in honor of Google’s 12th birthday, the company was coy when asked about its homepage.
‘Today’s doodle is fast, fun, and interactive, just the way we think search should be,’ a Google spokesman said in a statement.”
I very rarely comment here, but I must say, Flight Suit, you started the “load of off topic crud” in your words, when you started the stuff about the Koran. Where did that come from?
Burke & Hare. Dylan Thomas wrote a screenplay entitled The Doctor and the Devils which was considered too gruesome by the British Film Censor to be made during his lifetime, owing to the graphic description of “burkeing”. The victim was smothered, in part, by having his or her face pressed into the belly fat of Mr. Burke, according to Thomas, not solely by having their chest compressed
It was finally filmed and released in 1985: http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Devils-Timothy-Dalton/dp/B0009X75A6 and starred Timothy Dalton and Jonathan Pryce
wasted food
really - was this ever meant to be eaten?
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/knox/4.html
or was it a weapon?
i’m for either love or apathy - hillel said, do not do do unto others what you don’t want them to do to you, or something like that
don’t kick my dog, i won’t smash your window
you can believe in jesus, mohammed, aradia, elvis, nobody, but civil ain’t just a war
http://30mosques.com/
is a fun site, showing mosques (this year) around the us, including a cool girls’ basketball team, yes girls
folks are folks, whether in montana or atlanta, and they seem on the whole pretty good folks i’d want as neighbors
Why not burn copies of the Koran? It’s certainly much more civil than burning the owners of said tomes. If burning an American flag can be protected as free speech, why then should burning the Koran not be afforded the same protection? Seems some of our “enlightened progressive” friends see only one side of the coin.
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This is a straw man argument that has no validity to it, because you are wrongly assuming that “enlightened progressives” are calling for the government to step in and prevent the Koran burning from taking place.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Nobody is disputing that group’s constitutionally guaranteed right to burn Korans. We merely assert that it is a hateful act of religious bigotry.
Flight Suit, the point is made that “enlightened progressives” have no issue with flag burning, yet think that burning the Koran will stir up hate. If you think burning an American flag doesn’t stir up hate, try burning one in front of your local VFW, American Legion, or other service related post. Why the difference? Defend both or defend none. You assert that burning a Koran is a “hateful act of religious bigotry” which I am in agreement with, but then ignore how much of a hateful act of whatever kind of bigotry burning an American flag is.
Can you also tell me the last time you saw Americans dancing in the streets when a disaster of any kind hit a predominately Muslim nation? Is that not a hateful act of religious bigotry as performed by our Muslim “brethren”? Typically what happens in those cases is that the US Government sends massive aid, and US citizens donate to relief efforts. There’s real hatred for you, isn’t it? Bigotry is bigotry, and some folks will always be stirred up by symbolism. If the “enlightened progressives” (especially those who report the news of the day) in this nation would simply ignore things like Koran burning instead of making a major issue out of every perceived slight of some group or another, then the real issues of bigotry and racism might actually be dealt with. OMG, what a concept, dealing with issues instead of hype. Of course that doesn’t get morons from the Republican and Democrat parties re-elected.
margueritem almost 14 years ago
Eenie, meeny, miney, moe….
FLIGHT SUIT almost 14 years ago
Very timely, given all the Koran-burning we Americans are indulging in right now.
sandboil almost 14 years ago
Well said, Flight Suit. It’s shameful.
sandboil almost 14 years ago
Who’s Tom?
Is maiming less popular, Radish?
Sisyphos almost 14 years ago
I agree! You try one, and I’ll try the other!
Coyoty Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Then is fatal attraction twice as popular?
ejcapulet almost 14 years ago
“Being Catholic means that divorce is out of the question; being Irish means that murder isn’t.”
LocoOwl almost 14 years ago
Yes, but neither is as popular as being sanctimonious!
sottwell almost 14 years ago
What Koran burning? One small bunch of wackjobs says they’re going to burn Korans, and suddenly it’s the Crusades all over again (even though the vast majority of the violence of the Crusades was practiced against Europeans in Europe).
If you lived in the Middle East, you’d be more aware of all the “honor killings” where women and girls are killed by their own fathers, brothers, uncles and grandfathers if they do anything at all unusual, like wanting to marry somebody from a different clan, or fleeing to a women’s shelter to escape abuse.
grapfhics almost 14 years ago
I am glad that we have solved the “bilingual” sign problem, thanks Teresa. Is this available in other languages?
wndrwrthg almost 14 years ago
We just love to kill.
FLIGHT SUIT almost 14 years ago
OK Sottwell, thanks for that load of off-topic crud.
a) Honor killing is not sanctioned or condoned by any Islamic sect. It is cultural.
b) What’s your point? Are you saying that because some Muslims somewhere have sometimes done bad things, therefore the rising tide of anti-Muslim bigotry in the US is just perfectly fine and wonderful?
I was listening to NPR yesterday, and they were interviewing various American Muslims on the street, asking them how they felt about the Koran burning, the mosque burnings, and the political showboating surrounding the Ground Zero mosque. You know what they said? They said they’re more scared now than they were in the days immediately following 9/11.
Which of course, won’t matter one bit to you, Sottwell.
You know who else it won’t matter one bit to?
The Jihadists.
They love to see America divided.
Yukoneric almost 14 years ago
HANG all the fan(atic)s
WaitingMan almost 14 years ago
George W. Bush: “The terrorists hate us for our freedom.” So, we take away the freedoms of Islamic Americans and they won’t hate us anymore. Makes perfect sense.
Nighthawks Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Jack Webb : If you were completely surrounded by an enemy force of five hundred men, what would you do? Recruit: Kill ‘em, sir!
Nighthawks Premium Member almost 14 years ago
eenie meenie miney mo……
uh, how does the rest of that go?
hmm?
MisngNOLA almost 14 years ago
Why not burn copies of the Koran? It’s certainly much more civil than burning the owners of said tomes. If burning an American flag can be protected as free speech, why then should burning the Koran not be afforded the same protection? Seems some of our “enlightened progressive” friends see only one side of the coin.
MisngNOLA almost 14 years ago
Hey, that whistle uses my copyrighted saying on the bottom of its packaging!.
rudyt almost 14 years ago
Wow! Is this the Pibgorn site or Frog Apllause? With all that good smut and stuff on the blog to comment on, let’s lighten up.
madbristowart almost 14 years ago
Yeah, dammit! I come here for love!
razorback2824 almost 14 years ago
There are some people who make it their mission to make every single comments section on this site into just another Pibgorn site or just another Big Top site. Unfortunately, they seem to have all the stroke on GoComics.
However, it’s just a political cartoon fan that got loose.
rotts almost 14 years ago
@MisngNOLA - perhaps you’re not aware that burning is the appropriate way to dispose of damaged or “retired” american Flags?
Nairebis almost 14 years ago
Indeed! Can’t we all just agree that all religions are equally evil and leave it at that?
What? What’d I say!?
jpozenel almost 14 years ago
I sure don’t come here for this.
6turtle9 almost 14 years ago
I only worship the frog.
All our differences should be settled with parkour ; the beast following you will take care of the rest.
sandboil almost 14 years ago
I regret saying anything last night. This site is my sanctuary. The only place on GoComics that’s exclusively about Teresa’s strip, her blog, and nighthawks’s pint-sized private parts.
Rotifer NOT GETTING RUBEN BOLLING’S PIN Thalweg Premium Member almost 14 years ago
I’m with you, jtp. WELL SAID, sandboil.
Leaving aside such trivial matters as the true path to eternal life and moving on to more important things, what’s up with Google today?
@ shytimes2: Will you marry me?
J.BenjaminDalton almost 14 years ago
Just get rid of the evidence.
Garcia55 almost 14 years ago
“Coming off the holiday weekend, Google’s homepage on Tuesday featured a doodle with a variety of fast-moving, colored balls. While some speculated the interactive logo was in honor of Google’s 12th birthday, the company was coy when asked about its homepage.
‘Today’s doodle is fast, fun, and interactive, just the way we think search should be,’ a Google spokesman said in a statement.”
Ushindi almost 14 years ago
I just come here for the dirty pictures…
madbristowart almost 14 years ago
I was just about to ask you, Ushindi…
how do you feel about bubble baths?
gocartmozart almost 14 years ago
I very rarely comment here, but I must say, Flight Suit, you started the “load of off topic crud” in your words, when you started the stuff about the Koran. Where did that come from?
Thomas R. Williams almost 14 years ago
Try Extreme Mutual Co-ed Nude Asphyxiophilia and you just might manage to fulfill both ambitions at once.
The wiki has a handy how-to.
Not much beats a garroted carotid.
Thomas R. Williams almost 14 years ago
Burke & Hare. Dylan Thomas wrote a screenplay entitled The Doctor and the Devils which was considered too gruesome by the British Film Censor to be made during his lifetime, owing to the graphic description of “burkeing”. The victim was smothered, in part, by having his or her face pressed into the belly fat of Mr. Burke, according to Thomas, not solely by having their chest compressed
It was finally filmed and released in 1985: http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Devils-Timothy-Dalton/dp/B0009X75A6 and starred Timothy Dalton and Jonathan Pryce
trekkermint almost 14 years ago
wasted food really - was this ever meant to be eaten? http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/knox/4.html or was it a weapon?
i’m for either love or apathy - hillel said, do not do do unto others what you don’t want them to do to you, or something like that don’t kick my dog, i won’t smash your window you can believe in jesus, mohammed, aradia, elvis, nobody, but civil ain’t just a war
http://30mosques.com/ is a fun site, showing mosques (this year) around the us, including a cool girls’ basketball team, yes girls folks are folks, whether in montana or atlanta, and they seem on the whole pretty good folks i’d want as neighbors
Eagleskies Premium Member almost 14 years ago
You know, “pint-sized” ain’t hay; after all, 16 in.., whoops, ounces can’t be all bad!
Ushindi almost 14 years ago
Kenny: If you be invitin’, I be refusin’…
FLIGHT SUIT almost 14 years ago
MisngNOLA said, about 13 hours ago
Why not burn copies of the Koran? It’s certainly much more civil than burning the owners of said tomes. If burning an American flag can be protected as free speech, why then should burning the Koran not be afforded the same protection? Seems some of our “enlightened progressive” friends see only one side of the coin. ——————————————–
This is a straw man argument that has no validity to it, because you are wrongly assuming that “enlightened progressives” are calling for the government to step in and prevent the Koran burning from taking place.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Nobody is disputing that group’s constitutionally guaranteed right to burn Korans. We merely assert that it is a hateful act of religious bigotry.
FLIGHT SUIT almost 14 years ago
http://obituarytypo.blogspot.com/2010/09/conjoined.html
I know a girl who has two conjoined toes on each foot. It’s kind of cool.
MisngNOLA almost 14 years ago
Flight Suit, the point is made that “enlightened progressives” have no issue with flag burning, yet think that burning the Koran will stir up hate. If you think burning an American flag doesn’t stir up hate, try burning one in front of your local VFW, American Legion, or other service related post. Why the difference? Defend both or defend none. You assert that burning a Koran is a “hateful act of religious bigotry” which I am in agreement with, but then ignore how much of a hateful act of whatever kind of bigotry burning an American flag is. Can you also tell me the last time you saw Americans dancing in the streets when a disaster of any kind hit a predominately Muslim nation? Is that not a hateful act of religious bigotry as performed by our Muslim “brethren”? Typically what happens in those cases is that the US Government sends massive aid, and US citizens donate to relief efforts. There’s real hatred for you, isn’t it? Bigotry is bigotry, and some folks will always be stirred up by symbolism. If the “enlightened progressives” (especially those who report the news of the day) in this nation would simply ignore things like Koran burning instead of making a major issue out of every perceived slight of some group or another, then the real issues of bigotry and racism might actually be dealt with. OMG, what a concept, dealing with issues instead of hype. Of course that doesn’t get morons from the Republican and Democrat parties re-elected.