{"id":1758,"date":"2010-09-09T20:51:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T20:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2010-09-09T20:51:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T20:51:08","slug":"koran-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1758","title":{"rendered":"Koran burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just for the record, I may be a godless atheist but that doesn&#8217;t mean I think it&#8217;s a good idea to piss off a billion Muslims and, for no particular reason other than to offend them, burn their holy book.<\/p>\n<p>Should this idiot of a pastor go ahead with his Koran burning, however, I would advise Muslims to shut up and move on. After all, &#8220;our&#8221; righteous idiots, acting in the name of Jesus, only burn the Koran in front of the world&#8217;s television cameras, whereas the Muslim world&#8217;s righteous idiots end up sawing heads off innocent screaming people, all in the name of Allah. I strongly disapprove of book burning, yet even so, I find the burning of some bound sheets of paper with printing on them a far less uncivilized form of protest than the use of a rusty knife to severe a person&#8217;s carotid artery, windpipe, vertebrae, and whatever other body parts there are that connect a human being&#8217;s head to his or her body.<\/p>\n<p>If only I could make a similarly favorable comparison between the act of flying passenger planes into crowded buildings vs. bombing a country into submission (remember &#8220;shock and awe?&#8221;) using a well trained, highly disciplined, high-tech equipped, professional military.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1758' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for the record, I may be a godless atheist but that doesn&#8217;t mean I think it&#8217;s a good idea to piss off a billion Muslims and, for no particular reason other than to offend them, burn their holy book. Should this idiot of a pastor go ahead with his Koran burning, however, I would <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1758' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-38-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}