Which category of believers is the more irrational?

A brilliant passage:

If the point is that Jones has the right to burn the book, but he should refrain from exercising it and be sensitive to the feelings of others, then Obama is contradicting the approach he took to the close-to-Ground-Zero mosque, which is that the overwhelmingly important matter is that there is a right to build the mosque and he really doesn’t want to talk about whether it’s a good idea.

You know, a key religious freedom value is that government must not treat different religions differently. But Obama takes one attitude toward the NYC Muslims and another toward the Florida Christian.

With respect to the former, he highlighted the right and wouldn’t express an opinion about how that right should be exercised. With the latter, he begrudgingly acknowledged the right after stressing the importance of the individual’s restraint and sensitivity toward others.

Now, you might jump to say that Obama thus favored Muslims over Christians, but think about how it’s actually the other way around.

Without hesitation, he called upon the Christian to exercise forbearance and to care for the feelings of others. He didn’t dare say that to Muslims. And he talked about Muslims as if they are incapable of understanding a society based on individual liberty and freedom of expression.

Obama propounds the stereotype of irrational Muslims who resort to acts of violence when they don’t like what people are saying.

Yup.

Individual acts of annoyance or insensitivity do not ’cause’ or ‘prompt’ angry reactions by others.

The issue in such cases (and the specific threat to civilisation) is not the quality of the act of annoyance or supposed insensitivity, but rather the fanaticism and inability to exercise minimal self-control on the part of those raving away ostensibly in response. 

Why not get this over and done with?

Let’s get the UN to encourage all those round the world who want to burn Korans and Bibles and other religious tomes to do so on one day allocated to religious book burning: World Get It Off Your Chest Day. 

Preferably in conditions which limit carbon emissions somehow – hey, some sacred values have to be maintained in all this!

Then as the fires everywhere die down and the acrid smoke drifts away, we can see that absolutely nothing has changed.

Except that we all know now that there are banal prejudices and hatreds everywhere, in case we had not noticed that previously.

Sounds like a plan?