Yes, you and I agree that the Koran is just a book like any other. It means nothing particularly special to us. But earlier you complained about some Islamists burning the U.S. flag. Burning the Koran is, for them, like burning the flag and the Bible and Shakespeare all at the same time. The symbolic weight is massive.
You keep using that example, but I was using the flag burning as an example of the fact that they burn it all the time but you don't see me jumping up and down in the streets calling for the killing of all Muslims. You don't see me burning Mosques, burning Korans, and calling for holy wars in response.
I look at the flag burning, think to myself 'screw you guys then', and then move on with my life. I don't say OMFGWTF WE MUST BOMB THEM BECAUSE THEY BURNED A FLAG!!!!!! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
And the moderates among them stay deafeningly quiet in the face of all of this. When they DO get on TV, they advise us to appease. Well excuse the hell out of me... it's not the rest of humanity's job to drag these extremist bastards into the 21st century -- it's MUSLIMS' job to drag themselves and the rest of the extremists into the 21st century by demanding change.
Instead, they are busy trying to impose their laws unlawfully over the top of Western laws (see Britain and France).
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