"inadvertant" book burning

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roachcoach

3,975 posts

154 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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MartG said:
Here's an idea - the Americans give them a pile of bibles to burn as compensation ?
Well I imagine...

[mod edit, please dont try to bypass the swear filter unless you want a spell in the sin bin. its the for a reason]

Jimbeaux

33,791 posts

230 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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MartG said:
Here's an idea - the Americans give them a pile of bibles to burn as compensation ?
There you go; maybe they will sit back down then.

wolves_wanderer

12,356 posts

236 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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MartG said:
Here's an idea - the Americans give them a pile of bibles to burn as compensation ?
I've got some drawings of Mohammed they might like.

Asterix

24,438 posts

227 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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You could do one of those 'Yo Dawg' memes with a picture of Mo burning a Koran which you could then print and burn.

That would help.

N Dentressangle

3,442 posts

221 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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John Cleese should do one last decent thing in his career and get the remaining Pythons back together to make 'The Life of Mohammed'.



"Americans they go the house"?

smile

Jimbeaux

33,791 posts

230 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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N Dentressangle said:
John Cleese should do one last decent thing in his career and get the remaining Pythons back together to make 'The Life of Mohammed'.



"Americans they go the house"?

smile
rofl

Jimbeaux

33,791 posts

230 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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wolves_wanderer said:
MartG said:
Here's an idea - the Americans give them a pile of bibles to burn as compensation ?
I've got some drawings of Mohammed they might like.
You Infidel you! smile

roachcoach

3,975 posts

154 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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roachcoach said:
MartG said:
Here's an idea - the Americans give them a pile of bibles to burn as compensation ?
Well I imagine...

[mod edit, please dont try to bypass the swear filter unless you want a spell in the sin bin. its the for a reason]
My mistake, didn't even register, not deliberate bypassing just thought the image/caption fitted!

It would explain the weird way it posted though getmecoat

wolves_wanderer

12,356 posts

236 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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Asterix said:
You could do one of those 'Yo Dawg' memes with a picture of Mo burning a Koran which you could then print and burn.

That would help.
Assuming someone, for the sake of argument, similar to me and bored had just made one...how banned would they get for posting it?

Asterix

24,438 posts

227 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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wolves_wanderer said:
Assuming someone, for the sake of argument, similar to me and bored had just made one...how banned would they get for posting it?
Rock and Roll brother...

Dixie68

3,091 posts

186 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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Just out of idle curiosity; considering that there must be hundreds of Korans being printed every day, how ARE you allowed to get rid of one that's, for instance, falling to pieces? These people aren't honestly saying that no copy has/should ever be destroyed surely? We'd be chest-deep in them by now.

Starfighter

4,908 posts

177 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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Dixie68 said:
Just out of idle curiosity; considering that there must be hundreds of Korans being printed every day, how ARE you allowed to get rid of one that's, for instance, falling to pieces? These people aren't honestly saying that no copy has/should ever be destroyed surely? We'd be chest-deep in them by now.
Covered on Radio 4 this morning. They can be burned so long as the askes are disposed of in running water (river, sea etc), weighted down and dumped in running water or burying it.

Jimbeaux

33,791 posts

230 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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Starfighter said:
Dixie68 said:
Just out of idle curiosity; considering that there must be hundreds of Korans being printed every day, how ARE you allowed to get rid of one that's, for instance, falling to pieces? These people aren't honestly saying that no copy has/should ever be destroyed surely? We'd be chest-deep in them by now.
Covered on Radio 4 this morning. They can be burned so long as the askes are disposed of in running water (river, sea etc), weighted down and dumped in running water or burying it.
.....After 4PM Zulu time, at a temp below 45, and wind out of the southeast, better known as the "Mecca Breeze".

carmonk

7,910 posts

186 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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Jimbeaux said:
Starfighter said:
Dixie68 said:
Just out of idle curiosity; considering that there must be hundreds of Korans being printed every day, how ARE you allowed to get rid of one that's, for instance, falling to pieces? These people aren't honestly saying that no copy has/should ever be destroyed surely? We'd be chest-deep in them by now.
Covered on Radio 4 this morning. They can be burned so long as the askes are disposed of in running water (river, sea etc), weighted down and dumped in running water or burying it.
.....After 4PM Zulu time, at a temp below 45, and wind out of the southeast, better known as the "Mecca Breeze".
Or just tear the pages out and scatter them from the nearest minaret, better known as "Mecca Mess".

hornet

6,333 posts

249 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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Nom de ploom said:
thankyou.

i didn't know writing in the Koran was forbidden but it makes sense that you shouldn't deface a holy text.
Makes no sense whatsoever, as it's just text at the end of the day. What is to be held in higher regard, the means of communicating the idea or the idea itself? The book (any book) is just the medium of communication. Burning Principia or Origin of the Species doesn't damage the ideas expressed within them. When you have real people dying as a result of offence taken over perceived insults against at best quasi-real people, the world has gone stark raving mad. I have a lovely book on the Egyptian bestiary at home and I'd be deeply upset if someone burnt it, but I wouldn't raise a mob and start killing people in the name of Osiris. Where do you stop? Is eating a Mars Bar offensive to Romans? It's bonkers.

odyssey2200

18,650 posts

208 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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carmonk said:
Jimbeaux said:
Starfighter said:
Dixie68 said:
Just out of idle curiosity; considering that there must be hundreds of Korans being printed every day, how ARE you allowed to get rid of one that's, for instance, falling to pieces? These people aren't honestly saying that no copy has/should ever be destroyed surely? We'd be chest-deep in them by now.
Covered on Radio 4 this morning. They can be burned so long as the askes are disposed of in running water (river, sea etc), weighted down and dumped in running water or burying it.
.....After 4PM Zulu time, at a temp below 45, and wind out of the southeast, better known as the "Mecca Breeze".
Or just tear the pages out and scatter them from the nearest minaret, better known as "Mecca Mess".
Or you can try to guess the order the pages are pulled out, better known as Mecca Bingo.smile

carmonk

7,910 posts

186 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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odyssey2200 said:
carmonk said:
Jimbeaux said:
Starfighter said:
Dixie68 said:
Just out of idle curiosity; considering that there must be hundreds of Korans being printed every day, how ARE you allowed to get rid of one that's, for instance, falling to pieces? These people aren't honestly saying that no copy has/should ever be destroyed surely? We'd be chest-deep in them by now.
Covered on Radio 4 this morning. They can be burned so long as the askes are disposed of in running water (river, sea etc), weighted down and dumped in running water or burying it.
.....After 4PM Zulu time, at a temp below 45, and wind out of the southeast, better known as the "Mecca Breeze".
Or just tear the pages out and scatter them from the nearest minaret, better known as "Mecca Mess".
Or you can try to guess the order the pages are pulled out, better known as Mecca Bingo.smile
Or stick a load of Korans together to make a spaceship or a stock car - Mecca No.

Muntu

7,631 posts

198 months

Thursday 23rd February 2012
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carmonk said:
Or just tear the pages out and scatter them from the nearest minaret, better known as "Mecca Mess".
hehe

TheHeretic

73,668 posts

254 months

Friday 24th February 2012
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12 more dead today. They really are nutters.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17152705

wolves_wanderer

12,356 posts

236 months

Friday 24th February 2012
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