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I think it's ironic to see one of these people "impaled on his own sword."
Hope the prosecutor keeps prosecuting Muslims for this. Give them a taste of their own grape, and maybe they'll decide they don't want sharia after all.

B-B-but, the Multiculturalists say that Islam loves Jesus as a prophet. Why would they burn his book?

Talk about an Epic Fail!

To be fair to the guy, some far-right protestant groups DO treat the bible as a kind of Koran that fell out of heaven, inerrant and infallable, and the Source of All Truth (tm). But even those groups weren't inspired to violence over the incident.

It remains something of a mystery to my why Muslim crowds have apoplectic fits when someone burns the Koran.

Some possibilities:

* Witch-hunt mentality means that if they don't show public anger, the Muslim public will turn on them next. So they do it out of fear of their neighbors, or to gain status as "righteous" Muslims.

* Frustration with their repressive autocratic rulers and lack of economic possibilities just comes out in their limited socially acceptable way.

* They have grave doubts themselves about Islam, and riots are a way to prove to themselves that they really are worthy believers.

* They just want to imitate Mohammed, who publicly approved the killings of people who mocked Islam (see especially Abu Afak and Asma Bint Marwan).

* They are really in fear they won't get into heaven unless they kill "enemies of Islam" but not at all afraid of limiting their own freedom of speech (which may be unfamiliar to them anyhow, as in Saudi Arabia).

* They are afraid that westernisation is destroying their local culture and traditions, leaving them as poor outsiders within the American empire. So the protests are really a protest of creeping westernization rather than about Islam itself.

People of all other religions seem to just roll their eyes and get on with their day when someone mocks their holy book. I think that's the best response.

thunderlips11 says

B-B-but, the Multiculturalists say that Islam loves Jesus as a prophet. Why would they burn his book?

It was one person.

Bigsby says

It was one person.

It was one person with an ultra-conservative Islamic TV station.

He obviously has a large audience who he thinks will agree with him, enough to support a TV station anyway.