Being right and doing wrong.

Submitted by Michel C. Zala (Switzerland), Apr 11, 2011 at 09:08

He may have been right - but others paid a high price for it. For his pride and cowardly narcisism, innocent people died. Period.

If you thus ignorantly want to be heard, then please do it in a manner, which does not endanger other people.

Sitting in some safe backyard in the USA, this self-righteous zealot put the lives of courageous people in danger who actually protect and serve every day. If you wanna make a point, go ahead and put your own life in danger. Our civil liberties and rights are being perverted and abused. It reminds me of those scandal hungry journalists who published in the name of Freedom of the Press the identities of CIA operatives, upon which several of them died or disappeared. That is not, what our Founding Fathers meant, when they designed our beautiful constitution.

We are fighting right now the bigotry and fanaticism of the likes of the Taliban, century old brain washing, indoctrination and double standards. To give those fanatics now additional ammunition, motivation is not only stupid, but borders at sabotage or treason, as it undermines the work of the brave people on the actual frontlines and endangers innocent lives.

In a secular court of law Jones did not cross any boundaries.

Philosophically his position is debatable.

On a moral and ethical dimension however, the man is a criminal,

inasmuch, as on a Christian dimension he clearly acted against our own doctrine.

Just because muslim doctrine allows for .. on someone else's religion, should we do the same? Just because they are hypocrits and bigots, should we now justify the actions of those in our midst?

How about asking the victims. I dare to venture that they wouldn't give a crap, if Terry Jones was right. All they care about is, that Jones yelled fire in a crammed movie theatre, threw a match into a powder keg, that he was the trigger for the explosion.

The victims would blame those muslim zealots equally to this Christian . And rightfully so.

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