So it all went a bit quiet on the Koran burning front, didn’t it? Still, that nutty little pastor from the back of beyond got his 15 minutes of fame out of it, even after he backed down and ‘postponed’ the event. So I guess he’s happy enough.
I think he should have done it. Why the fuck not? I mean, the protests it sparked in the Muslim world – utterly predictably, I suppose – saw them burning American flags and effigies representing Jones and Barack Obama (while chanting ‘Death to Christians’). Do they not see the completely ridiculous fucking irony of that? Do they not understand how staggeringly fucking hypocritical they appear? [...]