Terry Jones, whose latest Christ-like gesture was to preside at a Florida burning of the Koran, is probably chortling in his sleep over the murder of several U.N. workers in Pakistan in protest of the desecration of their holy book.
Jones is secure in the knowledge that he is doing God's work, just as the good Christians who bombed the Sunday school at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1962.
Of course, God must be on our side because we'd be screwed if He (She, It) wasn't.
My feelings about the "Reverend" Jones is pretty strong. I think he's a traitor to the United States and everything it stands for, that he's a disgrace to the human race and, should he fall into a huge tub of horseshit, it would cheapen the horseshit.
Burning a Koran comes under the same category as peeing on an altar. To anyone who believes literally that it is the revealed word of God, it is an insult of incredible proportion. To be so insensitive and ignorant about things like this reveals something even more disturbing than Jones' actions. Maybe he's doing it for publicity.
After all, in this celebrity-infested "culture" of ours, anything is OK if it gets a few inches in the paper or a mention on TV. The entertainment industry would be bankrupt if it weren't for the divorces, drunk driving arrests, drug addictions and the occasional murder to spice up a bunch of basically boring people. Why not something really outrageous? Maybe Jones wants to run for office and needs name recognition. With a name like Jones, he'd need to separate himself from the pack, most of whom are probably normal, patriotic and tolerant Americans.
So where do we come in? We're the ones who crave the sensational to the exclusion of the everyday. We're the ones who keep the Enquirers in business. We're always in search of the bizarre, the paranormal, the violent, the sexy, the deviant. In short, we're the ones Terry Jones may be playing to. The more we react, the happier he is.
Maybe Pogo should have gone a little further: We have met the enemy and he's kicking our ass.