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Terry Jones, Last American Standing

With all the world demeaning Pastor Terry Jones as an "idiot," a "moron," or a "dope," some few voices are emerging to support Jones.  I am one of those voices.  One of the biggest voices is that of Lawrence Auster of View From the Right.

Auster mentions Ann Barnhardt of Colorado, who made a video response to General Petraeus and Senator Lindsey Graham, after the two called for restraint of the First Amendment with regard to Islam.  Barnhardt blasts both men with fury and righteousness, then reads hateful passages from the Koran, just before ripping out the offending page and burning it.  Her readings show why the Koran is such an evil book and why it deserves the flames -- it calls for murder, deceit, torture, rape and homosexual pedophilia.

This young woman does indeed have more balls than most men.  Her two videos are embedded below.

Last night I watched Glenn Beck.  He was discussing the Koran burning by Pastor Terry Jones and the subsequent murderous temper tantrum of the Muslims of Afghanistan.

Beck can be brilliant at times.  He can also be obtuse.  He labeled those who burn the Koran as "book burners."

Ah, the term "book burner" is one of those convenient phrases that remove the necessity of logical argument and rational thinking from any debate.  The  term simply brings up all the right images, i.e. negative ones.  Enough said.  No need to explain.

Well gee, didn't Nazis burn books?  Yes they did, primarily books by Jewish scholars.  Now we have a book, the Koran, that is highly antisemitic, filled with Jew hatred and whose author would have agreed with the Nazis, particularly about the "final solution."  But we can't burn it, because book burning in every case is a nefarious act.  Or is it?

Would it be a negative to burn Mein Kampf?   Or The Turner Diaries, the book that inspired Timothy McVeigh to blow up a federal building?  How about instructional manuals on how to build bombs to use in terrorism, or how to murder someone without getting caught?  Books on those subjects do exist.

What I am saying to Glenn Beck and others with their heads anally inserted is this:  book burning can be a very good thing.  It all depends on the book.  The Koran is one of those books that should be burned.

See my explanations for why this is true at this link.

Mark Steyn is right on the money (as usual) in describing our psychological need to appease Muslims.  He writes in his article "Mollifying Muslims, and Muslifying Mollies":

Take this no-name pastor from an obscure church who was threatening to burn the Koran. He didn’t burn any buildings or women and children. He didn’t even burn a book. He hadn’t actually laid a finger on a Koran, and yet the mere suggestion that he might do so prompted the President of the United States to denounce him, and the Secretary of State, and the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, various G7 leaders, and golly, even Angelina Jolie. President Obama has never said a word about honor killings of Muslim women. Secretary Clinton has never said a word about female genital mutilation. General Petraeus has never said a word about the rampant buggery of pre-pubescent boys by Pushtun men in Kandahar. But let an obscure man in Florida so much as raise the possibility that he might disrespect a book – an inanimate object – and the most powerful figures in the western world feel they have to weigh in.

Aside from all that, this obscure church’s website has been shut down, its insurance policy has been canceled, its mortgage has been called in by its bankers. Why? As Diana West wrote, why was it necessary or even seemly to make this pastor a non-person? Another one of Obama's famous "teaching moments"? In this case teaching us that Islamic law now applies to all? Only a couple of weeks ago, the President, at his most condescendingly ineffectual, presumed to lecture his moronic subjects about the First Amendment rights of Imam Rauf. Where's the condescending lecture on Pastor Jones' First Amendment rights?

Read it all here.