The Rude Pundit on Koran flushing and religious fanaticism.

[Cyrano]

The Rude Pundit is well worth reading today.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

The point he's making is that their religious fanatics are as bad as ours. They get more upset about a Koran being flushed than the torture of a human being.

[ET Awful]

1. The problem though is that whther you or I or he or any non-Muslim

gets upset over desecration of the Quran is irrelevant. If you are trying to heal relations and form a long-lasting symbiotic relationship, you don't do so by insulting the entire Muslim populace of the planet.

Is it "right"? Maybe not. But nobody that is not Muslim can understand why a Muslim would be upset about the desecration.

I agree with the Rude Pundit more often than not, but this time I think he's missing the point entirely.

[comsymp]

2. I dunno...

I don't think he's really all that wrong. Actually, I agree with both of you, when you say "If you are trying to heal relations and form a long-lasting symbiotic relationship, you don't do so by insulting the entire Muslim populace of the planet"

AND when he says:

The issue is not the crazed religious beliefs of others. The issue is how a nation treats people. The issue is personal property. The issue is torture. The issue is the presumption of guilt. The issue is the inversion of everything most of us were taught about this great nation, whose fall from grace has been harrowing to watch. It's not that a Koran or two or five were pissed on or stomped. Once we make it that, we buy into a religious doctrine that places faith over the physical. And we cannot make legal decisions in that way.