On Koran Burning

Do we seriously need to address this issue? I guess in light of the Mosque story, the Shadow Religious war and other issues, looking at this would be prudent. Back in May, we examined this in part -

Keep your eyes open folks and get to the bottom of every story. These are the times in which the world's "rules" are rewritten by the victors of the upcoming war.

On these issues, what is important to understanding why things are happening is not what actually happened as much as the perception that is being created and who stands to benefit from it. For instance, let's look at Drudge's top story -

Hundreds of angry Afghans burned a U.S. flag and chanted "Death to the Christians" on Thursday to protest plans by a small American church to torch copies of the Muslim holy book on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

What is not in dispute is what is happening, what is in dispute is why these things are happening. Let's listen to Gerald Celente for a moment -

“You hear someone like General Petraeus saying burning the Koran could be dangerous to American troops – hey General Petraeus – how about invading Arab countries and occupying them and killing innocent people? You think that could be dangerous to American troops? Oh no no, our foreign policy has nothing to do with this – they don’t like Americans because we go to Disneyland and shop at Walmart.”

Let's dissect for a moment:

• The Christians have a right to burn the books and the Muslims have a right to protest.
• They are protesting the burning AND our invasion.
• The Muslims in Afghanistan are occupied. (Why is not important.) This is an important fact and should inform all our fact gathering actions.
• A couple hundred Muslims are hardly representative for the entire religion which claims billions of adherents. (A claim which will probably be made)
• This will likely color the Christians of the West's opinion of the "Jihad crazy" Muslims.
• This creates the perception that - All of Islam wants to kill all of Christendom.
• Any activity by the Muslims will be interpreted to support that perception.
• See the Mosque rhetoric.
• Considering that more people die annually from cancer than died in 911, we would do far better to leave the Muslim's lands and spend the money waging a War On Cancer. (Not that I support that.).

It is interesting that Petraeus is being positioned opposite the Muslims in this story? Is he running for President in 2012 as the rock-solid military man who will decisively deal with the 'Arab threat'?

When a national event happens, all that some Hitler leader need to do is cry 'The Jews Arabs did it.' and the country will fall in line. Do we need reminders of what happened then? Or did we mean it when we said 'Never again.'?