Late to the party I am, but still. From the AP, “Hate-crime arrests in Quran desecrations at Pace University”:
A 23-year-old man was arrested Friday on hate-crime charges after he threw a Quran in a toilet at Pace University on two separate…

http://kalapanapundit.blogspot.com/2007/07/two-americas.html

Do not flush all at once!

The U.S. toilet constitution: separation of church and waste.

To the pc crowd, there are no american, we are all immigrants. That is the tired line i always get talking to them about illegal immigration

kathleen

Errrmmmm …. the treatment that Native Americans got after they failed to control their borders is actually a damned good argument for border control.

Progressoverpeace said it was white guilt and atonement. I’ll give him (or her) the guilt, but atonement? I think appeasement is more like it. And that, my friends, has never worked.

Entropy40 on July 30, 2007 at 1:03 PM

Him.

Yes, it is appeasement. But why do they want to appease? I said “atonement” because that is how we alleviate guilty feelings in Judeo-Christian culture.

Whites who feel guilty (I am not one of them) feel the need to “atone for their sins” and appeasing is how they do it. And the more it hurts them, and other whites/Westerners, the better they feel. That’s how I perceive the situation.

As a side note, tribal cultures like arab/persian/muslim cultures, don’t use guilt and atonement as control mechanisms, but rather shame and revenge – which is why they produce suicide bombers to exact revenge on others and we produce suicidal people to atone for our own perceived sins. (Again, I think that Westerners have nothing to feel guilty about, but many in the West are consumed with guilt)

BINGO! You’ve won the … um … 64 cent prize. Sorry, but I simply can’t afford more. :) But you’ve nailed it on the head, I fear. Islam is a protected minority. Also, let’s not forget that there appears to be a concerted effort to get God out of American society. I find this odd because President Washington mentioned God four times in his farewell address. But, eh. Progress, ne?

People can offend Christ, Christians, and Christianity all that they want, but because it’s Politically Correct to do so, it’s free speech. Make carricatures of the Prophet, however, and riots break out. And then the knives and explosives break out.

Progressoverpeace said it was white guilt and atonement. I’ll give him (or her) the guilt, but atonement? I think appeasement is more like it. And that, my friends, has never worked.

Remember First, Second, and THIRD Partition of Poland? Why did those happen? Appeasement. Remember that worthless treaty that Neville Chamberlain brought back to English soil? The one that promised “Peace in our time?” More appeasement.

Now we try to appease the radical muslims … remember Germany giving them their own holiday? Hmmm…this doesn’t appear to be working either.

Glenn Beck said it differently on Coast to Coast AM With George Noory on 14-NOV-2006. Mr. Beck said that the only way to get rid of radical Islam is to … well. I don’t want to quote him for fear that it would violate the terms of use of this site. But if you look that quote up … you might want to be sitting down for it.

Entropuppy (Thanks for the nickname, Lori!)

P.C. kicks in because:

Islam is a “protected minority”.

Until they tip the demographic balance, then the Constitution is toilet paper, and we get beheaded for objecting to Sharia Law.

I guess it is a sucide pact after all.

At least according to Pace.

And the friends of the “hatecrime” laws.

In America burning a flag is free speech, but flushing the Koran is a felony. Welcome to the brave new world. Since I have several copies of the Koran laying around the house, I think it’s time to flush another……

This is madness.

Professor Blather on July 30, 2007 at 9:57 AM

It is indeed madness. And, in my humble Christian opinion, can only be comprehended by considering what is going on behind the scenes in the spiritual realm, a la Ephesians 6:12 (as shooter has referred to).

What I don’t understand though is why political correctness is so selective!

I’m a true advocate of free speech – I say offend everybody, if that’s what you want. I may beat you to pulp if you burn the flag in front of me … but I support your legal right to do it. And so on.

But WHY is this same political correctness NOT applied to Christian symbols, or the flag? Why are we so eager to be politically correct towards the very people who want to kill us?

Professor Blather on July 30, 2007 at 9:57 AM

White guilt and atonement – The driving forces of Western culture since the emotional shock of WWII.

Prof. Blather;

It’s called “Political Correctness,”

I’m afraid it is much, much more than that. It is WAR.

War on Terror? Yes, but also-
We are in the most important SPIRITUAL WAR in history, and the enemy is on the attack.

The irony in this event is the fact that the koran itself is hate speech.

By quieting a single copy of the most dangerous, hateful and terror inciting book in the history of the world, the guy is charged with….hate?

pls wake me up, this nightmare is getting worse.

What I don’t understand though is why political correctness is so selective!

I’m a true advocate of free speech – I say offend everybody, if that’s what you want. I may beat you to pulp if you burn the flag in front of me … but I support your legal right to do it. And so on.

But WHY is this same political correctness NOT applied to Christian symbols, or the flag? Why are we so eager to be politically correct towards the very people who want to kill us?

The logic has just vanished here. And I really can’t think of any society in history that has responded to an external threat in this way.

Usually – and usually shamefully – the opposite happens. Even in recent history: the internment of the Japanese-Americans is a classic example. However you may feel about it … you understand the logic. The Japanese attacked us … so we (rightly or wrongly) “attacked” them at home.

If our culture of today had existed in 1941 … what would Roosevelt have done? Immediately made it a felony to mock the Japanese? Imprisoned anyone saying bad things about the Emperor?

This is madness.

It’s called “Political Correctness,” and is the disease that will be the death of the United States of America. Let’s examine something that was posted earlier:

communication must, be obscene, a specific and unequivocal threat, or by its very utterance tend to incite an immediate breach of peace. (see People v. Smith, 89 Misc. 2d 789, 392 N.Y.S.2d

Ok. “…tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.” What happened when the carricatures of the Prophet appeared in a Danish newspaper? Riots by … Christians? Nope. Buddists? Nada. Jews? Nope. Muslims? SHHH!!! You’re stereotyping us! DISCRIMINATION!!!

There are oh so many posts here that are 100 per cent on the money. Unfortunately, while you and I and the people that post here know the truth … the sad truth is that this student will in all likelyhood be charged with these crimes … just to make an example of him. How DARE he flush the Holy Book of our favourite religion?? We need to find something to charge him with so that our muslims don’t riot and burn something down…

And to the libs and Dems reading this; tell me something. When “Piss Christ” came out, how many Christians threatened to blow up the art museum? How many Christians murdered an Iman who had nothing to do with the incident? Do you remember when muslims murdered a (I THINK she was a) Roman Catholic Sister? Hmm?? How about the rioting in the streets? Did that happen when “Piss Christ” came out? Granted, there are a few unhinged Christians out there, such as those that burn down abortion clinics and/or murder abortion doctors. I in no way shape or form agree with abortion; but I agree even less with murdering the doctors that do it. Vengeance belongs to God, according to the Bible. Yes, I know it’s Politically Incorrect to quote the Bible. Get over it. And yourselves, you ruddy libs.

I’m sorry libs; but your silence is deafening. For rules to apply to anybody, they must apply to all. For rules to have any teeth, they must be fairly and uniformly applied to all. Until the human condition changes, that won’t happen. Sad, but true.

And Ordinary1 … your comment about Pastors being charged for preaching against homosexuality. Here you go:

http://www.star-telegram.com/national_news/story/184722.html

Read it … and weep for our once great Nation.

Those communists masquerading as socialists pretending to be liberal democrats are unraveling the fabric of our society so that they can refashion in into their communist/socialist utopia. To do this they have to destroy the current social order and devalue religion, this is just one of the ways they are doing it.