"I wonder what Mohammed would have thought about this?"

 

There have been a few crazies coming out of the woodwork lately, most notably U.S. Pastor Terry Jones who announced and then cancelled his plans to hold a "Burn a Koran Day" to mark the 9/11 anniversary.

Good work by the mainstream media, too, for giving such a crackpot blanket coverage in the news. The redneck preacher only has about 50 followers who attend his services, so God knows why he is receiving so much attention in the press.

He was chucking a tantrum about plans to build a mosque close, not on, the 9/11 site in Manhattan.

Burning a Koran would not achieve anything.

However, one embarrassing article in Murdoch's Herald Sun read, the act would incite an "almost certain Islamic over-reaction".

Thanks, dickheads.

They're covering a story about a racist redneck, writing like racist rednecks. The article goes on to cite examples of Muslim atrocities against Christians, pointing out that Christians have never retaliated.

What do you think the Iraq War was about? (George Bush: "God told me to invade Iraq.")

Anyway.

Now another media shitstorm has arrived. A Brisbane lawyer, Alex Stewart, has torn out pages from both the Koran and the Bible to compare which one is better material for smoking a joint.

His comments on the Koran: "Sounds like someone wrote this when they were smashed."

I like the point he is trying to make, but how can someone in the U.S. be condemned as a redneck for planning to burn the Koran when this guy has effectively done the deed?

However, Stewart emphasises something that many frustrated people have been thinking over the past ten years as religious tensions have increased: the Bible and Koran are just books.

Anyone who kill or threatens to kill in the name of religion has been brainwashed.