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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
I agree that the severity of what the pastor did (burning a book) vs. what the terrorists did (killing innocent people) are not comparable.
However, I feel the idiot pastor is just as responsible for those deaths because he basically dared the terrorists to do something.
If a psychopath was holding a little girl hostage and told a person if he walked forward, he would kill the little girl, and the person still walked forward daring the psychopath to do it, then I feel that person is just as responsible for her death.
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What if the psychopath was saying the one thing you cannot do is exercise a right that every free person has, criticism of religion. A failure to exercise rights is equivalent to negotiating with terrorists. Once you give in, you dramatically and negatively change our society in a way that you can never take back.
If the people who commited these murders are no better than psycopaths holding people hostage, what is the correct action against them? I'm going to tell you this right now, giving in to their ideological demands (that islam should be help above all other ideologies) is not going to discourage anything.