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Dear Anahid,

Heart breaking is your story. 

Yet the world is more than you or I. 

May come back tomorrow to explain. Until then, greets from France.

So in this way the difficulties in the world are finished

Dear Mr. You should first read it, just to burn it does not help you as Hitler did.  It brings more hate between people and make the life more difficult for the people. Jesus said love your enmey. Is it the sort of love you perform. Do you think to be ignorant solve the problems of the world. The whole world is burning in hate and greed and disrespect. Did you read Molavi, Saddi , Hafez or Guran. Where in the Bible wrote that you should burn the book of other religions. This book is holly for over one billion people, and you should respect to those. Those people or most of the people did not even read the Quran, and just burn it? The Arabs did the same with Iranian library. You did the same that Arabs did over 1400 years ago. So preach hate instead of LOVE. I think you did not even listen to Jesus. Love brings love and hate brings hate.

IRI made hundreds of thousands of people burn their own books

I had to burn and throw so many of my books in trash cans in 1983 when I was in Iran, probably hundreds of books. Not only that, writers and translators of some of these books were put in jail,  tortured, and some executed.

No pro IRI muslim ever voiced any concern about millions of books that were burned in Iran or put in trash.  No one asked why someone like Behazin had to be tortured?  Why the poet Saeed Soltanpour had to be arrested on his wedding night and later killed by IRI?

Now I am supposed to feel sorry that this pastor did what he did? Somehow I don't. It is far worse to burn a book for fear of persecution than the reasons that this pastor had. However, misguided he might be, he has not killed, jailed or tortured any one. Let's save our anger for true atrocities.

VPK

Burning books, religious or not, is a terrible thing to do. People should revolt against it. Even if not believers.

Otherwise, tomorrow we'll burn homosexuals, mentally handicapped and all sorts of pople who are different. Perverse, the Bible says. Kill them, Quran says.

People should not take easy those religious nuts. Whatever the religion, fundamentalists should be fought against. 

Late here, nite.

"protects every citizen

"protects every citizen from the harshest criticism of anyone in power, from the president down to the local policeman. And Jesus too "

Israel however, that is another story?

Don't get fooled by the above statement and go and say some thing bad, even if it is true, about Israel if you still want to keep your job.

Mehrdad

The Chorus Of Condomnations!

I know my condemnation of such acts will not change anything. I also know, for the past 3 decades tens of millions of people have condemned the brutalities of the Islamic Republic regime against Iranians and nothing has changed. Things have even gotten worse, by the day.
Since they burned the so-called, "smuggled" bibles only recently in Iran, the regime and its supporters are in no position to condemn or lead any chorus of condemnations against such acts.

اونوقت میرند خر از قبرس میارن!!!!

Mehrdad

Test of Tolerance

The U.S. constitution and culture that protect an olaagh like Pastor Jones also protects every citizen from the harshest criticism of anyone in power, from the president down to the local policeman. And Jesus too >>> full text
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Burning books is

pointless as a means of supressing information. Muslims will very simply print more. The idea was to insult Muslims. Now I have  insulted them pleny myself. However I oppose burning books. Somehow it rubs me the wrong way. 

My advise to Muslims is this: print more. Let the reader be the judge of the book. Meanwhile lets keep insulting one another :-)

Dumb thing

I agree with JJ. It was a stupid thing but we have a right to be stupid. I rather criticize Quoran based on what is in it. Not by burning it. This is not going to make any point other that more anger.

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"I think the major opponents are Christian ministers who are not able to propagate their conversion program overseas anymore."

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There are so many

There are so many Departments of Religion at US Universities, which should take care of this.  I think the major opponents are Christian ministers who are not able to propagate their conversion program overseas any more.

What Century is this?

Why do people still burn books? 

This guy has lost his marbles for sure. See what GOD has to deal with??? I really don't want to be GOD  :-) 

Alaaf jan

freedom of speech is as selective as the American freedom package to the middle east ..... it does not include everyone..... there are apparently some sacred things ..  now go and run for cover before being beaten up by even thinking of such a thing yet alone suggesting ......... LOL 

Glad I live in Europe

Marx was right about religion.

The American First Amendment is something to be cherished

Well It still won't Beat Gainsbourg ;0)

GAINSBOURG BRULE UN BILLET DE 500 FRANCS

well said JJ

although i do agree that the book burning is stupid, but it is a form of free expression and ought to be allowed. I say have some out come out and burn all three books, heck include the Mormon, Bahai, Hare Krishna (sp?), Budhists (if they have a book) and so on.  The burning itself should not be the center stage, but rather the freedom to do it and live to tell about it.

Often, It is difficult to judge the positive and negative

consequences of an act at the moment of its occurrence!? Sometimes, it would be better to wait and reflect back.

Are there some crazy extremists who are going to get mad about this and resort to violence? Yes!

Is this going to have a positive effect on the Muslims in terms of their acceptance that the sacred books including Qor'ann can be assaulted and yet the Sun continues rising from the East and nothing would happen in the world? I would say yes!

Too bad that this event didn't happen on the occasion of 4shanbeh-soori!?

Every time something like this happens

It is a great test of what Islam is made up of. If I was a muslim, I would worry more about what is in the book then someone burning it! The fact is, if Islam is so holy, so sacred, so divine, one little redneck doing some crazy shit in some remote area of bible belt should not have any impact whatsoever on the religion itself. The reason why muslims go crazy over acts like this is because they are extremely insecure, they are extremely weak-minded. That is why the West has kicked their ass in the last 500 years, and Asian countries are about to unleash more ass kicking on them in the form of China for the next 500 years. IR is a great representative of muslims. Islamic rapist can't tolerate the slightest of criticsm, even from its own founders, and revolutionaries. It remains in power through terror, same is true of Islam. If you burn a copy of Avesta, I wonder how many people would put a death sentence on you? Actually, go burn a bible in front of the white house, and see what happens? you will probably will get a few cheers or two, now that is having a confidence in something you believe in.

not a good thing to do for a pastor

thought Pastors are to teach tolerance and respect and that God loves everybody and BS like that...The pastor has diminished his own capacity to do his job. I hope that he loses his whatever license it is to be a man-of-god.

The right to be a stupid idiot

In a free society you are perfectly free to be a stupid idiot. Stupidity is not something to be proud of or condoned, but it is everyone's right to express their views freely about anything, including the burning of the Quran, or any "sacred" text for that matter.

What is most important is what we don't immediately see in this clip: the level of tolerance in the United States, even for an outrageous act like this. And not only tolerance for extreme stupidity, but a constitution, legal system and culture that prevents, prosecutes and discourages any physical violence against those who say and do something controversial -- even at this absurd level.

I admire that freedom as an Iranian, coming from a country where freedom of expression is non-existent. When you can not offend "sacred" texts and cows, when criticizing the Supreme Leader leads to jail, when wanting an end to theocracy can kill you, that means there's zero tolerance for any meaningful expression. If what you say does not shock and offend those in power, nothing will change.

THAT's a million times more harmful to society than burning the Quran.

Pulpit moron

With this despicable childish act, he just handed the Islamists a gift. He is either too dumb to know it or was intending it to be so, either way what a moron.