Koran Burning Craziness

[Kralizec]

Individual people being stupid is insignificant and not comment worthy. You may as well post one of those videos where they go around asking people geography questions on the street.

And if something is stupid only because of how a bunch of much stupider people will react to it, it's dead wrong to focus on the something...the only story is the afghan reaction.

Two points:

1) "individual people" - I may be wrong on this, but I imagine that the people who handled the books had superiors who should have prevented this from happening - not because I think that disposing of Qu'rans is in itself disrespectful in any objective sense, but because of how it looks to the Afghans.

2) let's just say that I disagree with the second part of your post. The sensitivity of muslims in this regard is something that exists, period. The incident that sparked this was incredibly stupid for the same reason that it's incredibly stupid to taunt a violent criminal.