Who Cares About ‘Burn a Koran’ Day? This is all the media’s fault

[Zadoc]

Who Cares About ‘Burn a Koran’ Day? This is all the media’s fault

There really needs to be a solution to the out of control media, from Glenn Beck to this story. It makes me sick.

[napi21]

1. I too bame the MEDIA. ALL OF THEM! If nobody would have

picked this story up, it would have been a vey isolated local story where the only people who would have ever even heard about it wuld have been his 51 churchmembes and a few who could smell the smoke and wonder where it was coming from.

I wonder what ever happened to media responsibility?

[polmaven]

4. Sure, because

not a single one of those church members knows how to go about getting a video of it on youtube, from where it would go viral in no time. At least, along with the media attention, comes coverage of the outrage it has caused right here in the US.

[RandomThoughts]

2. The fix is in the minds of the viewers.

People have to be able to put things in perspective.


To be honest, the people of Islam that would use that event out of proportion to create anger at the USA is the same thing as him burning the books.

If they use such events to paint all people in the USA badly, that is dishonest, if they use it to get people angry, that is wrong. If they used it to have dialog and caring conversation with people with his views, that would make more sense.

Although those are just my thoughts on it. I don't know much about Islam, so just an opinion.

[veganlush]

3. you're exactly right, in my opinion..n/t

[Igel]

5. There was an NYT article today that actually made the response reasonable.

Not reasoned, I don't think, but reasonable.

That is the observation that the issue had been reverberating in the "Muslim" media--Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt, etc.--for weeks and had reached a fairly loud volume. It prompted the Ikhwan ("Muslim Brotherhood") to declare 8/1/2010 to be International Bible Burning Day. It received condemnation from state functionaries in a few countries.

The threatened event of a single pastor of a picayune church was an international scandal, prompting death threats as well as diplomatic and legal threats. The US government was to stop it because it offended the sensitivities, it would seem, so many millions of people. The assumption was that all Americans are Islamophobes instead of being Islamophiles.

But since the entire Koran-burning incident was a Big F--king Deal in the media of Muslim countries, it had to be noted in the West. And lots of supplication for mercy and understanding beseeched of Muslims while appeasing the objections by condemning and pressuring the pastor to stop.

(Note that the Ikhwan-burned Bibles didn't rate much attention here, nor much attention, from what I can tell, in Muslim countries--few really condemned it and it wasn't considered outrageous or exceptional. Nor did previous Bible burnings in Somalia, Uzbekistan, or Iran, here or in Muslim countries, for all the mentions of respect shown by Muslims for the religious writings of others; Bible burnings in China. The DOD burned a fair number of Dari/Pashto Bibles in 3/2009 instead of returning them to the donor. They considered it a safety-of-forces issue, to prevent the impression of proselytizing among tolerant Muslims, it seems. achieve more press coverage in the US. While Obama says we, Americans, would never burn religious texts of importance to people of other religions, the DOD's actions do show that it's okay to burn texts that are important to us--even if that entails that Obama doesn't think Muslims are part of "us". I think he said what he thought he needed to, not what he actually meant, but that's a separate issue.)