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Originally Posted by GregE
I agree with most of what you're saying here but you're fooling yourself if you think the Islamic fundies will hate the USA any less if we're careful not to provoke them.
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Oh I don't think it's going to stop any. Don't get me wrong. If American had a "Hug a Koran" day, Islam's extremists would still want to burn America to the ground. The hatred for the US runs deep, and is built upon far more than a little religious bigotry. But is some attention whoring Christian extremist burning the Koran really solving anything? No, it's just perpetuating a cycle of hatred towards America, and creating an even more unstable environment for the men and women who are fighting in the name of the country. It's fucking ignorant. Not just towards the general Muslim community, but to the Americans whose lives are on the line in the Middle East. Personally I think the the extremists from both sides should all be shipped out to sea and pushed overboard.