15 year old girl arrested for burning a Koran

[SolkaTruesilver]

Problem is being PC never solves a problem. It only makes new enemies of policy.

You can't blame the bureaucrafts for their lack of intent. Just for the totally useless way they are organising solutions.

[Deepcrush]

That's where you're wrong, I can blame them all I want because that's just me.

[Graham Kennedy]

I have no problem with laws against inciting violence, though I don't see that was done here.

But now we have laws against inciting hatred. This makes no sense to me. It's NOT illegal to hate muslims. I can hate muslims all I want, you can hate muslims all you want. But if I incite you to hate muslims... I've committed a crime. How can it be a crime to incite somebody to an attitude that is itself legal?

[Mikey]

Seems pretty simple to me, regarding the take on this girl -

asshole: yes.
criminal: I don't see how.

For better or worse, like GK said about hatred, it's not illegal to be an asshole.

[Mark]

For some reason Muslims are both persecuted and coddled.

If Adam Athiest were to burn a Bible, he'd get bitched out by Michael Minister from Minisota. You burn a Jewish Corran, and you get accused of being a jew hater. You burn a Muslim holy book....they wanna put you in jail.

Seriously????????????

[Mikey]

a Jewish Corran

A what now?

[Tyyr]

Torah dude, Torah.

[Mikey]

Torah dude, Torah.

The more proper analog in Judaism for the Qu'ran is the Bible (Old Testament) - the Torah is just the so-called Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Leviticus, Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. But I figured Mark has a specific meaning in mind, because he's of Jewish descent.