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Originally Posted by graciegirl
My answer is still the same. Two wrongs don't make a right. Even if the wrongs are VERY unequal. I cannot see where starting this, burning the Quran was right, when the person knew that it would incite an awful outcome.
I will say it again.
It is just a book.
But to all of us, some inanimate objects mean a lot of very sacred things.
Destruction of those "things" can bring us to tears or anger.
A wedding ring, an American Flag, a Bible, a first Communion book, a rosary, pictures of our children, pictures of our parents who are gone, a cross, ...a star of David...
If any of those things were destroyed JUST because of hatred, it would make the owner want to fight.
My point was originally that this book, THIS book was burnt just to incite attention and to begin a huge fiasco that could have been avoided.
It goes against anything I have learned that is right.
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Tears or anger.......... Well now........... if that's all the reaction the Muslims had when someone insulted them we wouldn't be having this discussion. If that's all that happened we would all just be talking about the insensitivity of an ignorant preacher named Jones.
Well, that's not what happened and what did happen makes even the term "pales in comparison" totally inadequate. My point was you cannot equate one action with the other.