this question makes me think you fail to understand the enormous difference between private citizens protesting something, and institutionalized, e.g. government book burning. i am for free speech and free expression. a private citizen burning a book is free expression. a government burning a book is almost certainly the opposite. government book burning is suppression of free expression. understand why the two things are opposites and you will not ask any more questions like this. regular folks should voice their opinions, and burning books is a way to do it. the government should not even have an opinion on the koran or bible. so to burn or endorse either would be absurd.
i am for free speech, and freedom of expression too. i don't think anyone has the right to tell these morons what they can and cannot do on their own property as long as it's not raping little kids, or trying to brainwash them into believing some that is completely....oh wait.... anyway, you can do whatever you want, burn em if it makes you feel good, but you are burning knowledge and I while i respect their right to do so, i still think it is stupid.
What I find funny about this whole argument is that we are discussing what "blowback" will be from the burning of the books. Yet we ignore what killing thousands of innocent people, occupying land, befriending our now enemy, etc etc has done. People like to pick and choose what they see as blowback rather than opening their eyes.
What exactly has the Koran done to us? Taking on 1.5 billion muslims is insane and un-winable. It's worse than being distracted into occupying Iraq or trying to turn tribal Afghanistan into a real country. We must focus on the enemy, who is Al Qaeda and a few other fringe elements. We've beaten them up pretty good but they are not gone. Meanwhile we need to convince the rest of the muslim world to chill and not go off on some snowballing jihadathon. They have been merrily killing each other in the middle east for millennia, we are foolish to provoke them to focus all their frustrations and anger on us. The sooner they get back to killing each other the better.
However it looks as if Fred Phelps and his crazies in the Westboro Baptist Church might take up the burning if it is called off. If Fred Phelps thinks what you're doing is a good idea, then that's a good indication that your idea is totally stupid.
