Koran Burning: Copy Cats, Hypocrisy, and Replacement Texts
According to Military.com, the small, controversial Westboro Baptist Church has joined the criticism of the planned Koran burnings in Florida, but not for the reason everyone else is. Their reason?
They did it first. And no one noticed.
It’s that in 2008 she and her father’s Topeka flock set fire to a Quran in plain view on a Washington, D.C., street and nobody seemed to care…
Westboro has even said if Jones doesn’t burn the Koran, they will. Elsewhere, there is an increasing chorus of “hypocrisy” accusations against US officials. The US government previously said it burned Bibles in Afghanistan; even at that time, there was a sense that
“if it had been the Quran, this never would have happened.”
Other news agencies picked up on the “unusual” Read more