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What's particularly disgusting about this is that the burning of the Qur'an is meant as a memorial of 9/11 victims.
Yeeeah.... that's ...um... classy. And I'm sure no one can think of a better way to memorialize the deaths of Muslims than with burning their holy book.
Fringe right, indeed. According to Google News, this is getting a fair amount of coverage, but not a ton. Though that could change, of course.
As for whether they are gaining power/influence, I don't really see it. I still view the likes of Westboro as their own self-contained joke. I don't see anyone with the ability to reason taking them seriously. And I don't find that those with the inability to reason to have particularly that much power.
As for this group, it's even more disgusting than the Westboro gay bashing. If I'm not mistaken, to Muslims, the destruction of the Qu'ran is essentially a direct attack on the word of God, which is probably the intent. They want to attack Islam. So yeah, fringe right hatemongers: Islam is the devil, blah, blah blah, burn it.
And it's really fucking rich that this group is called the Dove World Outreach Center. Here I thought irony is dead. Maybe that's what's making me so disgusted by this. Fucking hypocritical and insincere.
Worst. Christians. Ever.
Jesus would not approve.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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