Is it news when somebody DOESN'T burn a Quran. No. Well, maybe ...

Enter Jacob Isom, a resident of Amarillo, TX. The 23-year-old skateboarder happend to be nearby when he heard somebody mention burning a copy of the Quran. Apparently that didn't seem too righteous to Jacob, who snatched away the holy book -- already doused in a flammable liquid -- and told the agitator, "Dude, you have no Quran!" before running off.

The Amarillo Globe-News reports that Isom was wearing a t-shirt with the words, "I'm in Repent Amarillo No Joke" handwritten on the back and he accused David Grisham, from Christian fundamentalist group Repent Amarillo, of "trying to start Holy Wars."

Think Progress noticed that there's a happy ending: "As Amarillo Citizens Against Repent Amarillo's Facebook page shows, Isom made sure the book made it into the safe hands of a smiling local Muslim leader."

The incident occurred during a rally against Quran burning organized by the Amarillo Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at Sam Houston Park. No word on whether Grisham wants his Quran back. Apparently he wasn't a fan, anyway.

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Coexist?......................................My As*!

I applaud the skateboarder.

Not every follower of Islam is a Muslim terrorist extremist pursuing jihad.

I also would not support a bible burning ceremony.

No books should ever be burned even if it something you do not agree with.
Fahrenheit 451, anyone?

I recently read a list of banned books put out by my son's middle school and it was many of the books we were required to read when in school - Grapes of Wrath, 1984, Animal Farm, Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Roots, The Color Purple, Tom Sawyer, etc. It was insane!

It is insane! What is the saying about those who don't know their history are destined to repeat it?

The Holocaust, slavery and all manners of religious, social and ethnic persecutions.... can these things happen again? Of course. And in fact ethnic cleansing and slavery still exist and mans hatred of man is alive and well.

I recently realized that my kids vaguely have a clue about World War 1 & 2. Something I will work on remedying.

Here the Caribbean we learn about slavery and the modern day world, but somehow some huge portions of history have been completely excluded.

And people complain about the censoring of this message board! Ha, it' happening all around us. Propaganda is king in this media age.

Barbara
Is it really true the "banned" those books? how can book banning still be going on? Which state is this in?

shocking, and more over sad. Great books all of them. Can you make them required reading in your home?

Yeah it's true. This is conservative central NY. Funny, my older kids have already read most of them just by choice. Maybe "banning" them will make them more desirable for kids to want to read! One can only hope....

Never being one to keep my mouth shut, I weigh in.

Building a mosque near ground zero. Legal, but not a good idea.
Burning a Quran. Legal, but not a good idea.

As far as the book banning, yes, it's been happening. Notably the books such as Barbara mentioned, and other "classics" from our era. They taught us lessons. However, the social engineering that has been going on for the last couple of decades deem that these are not the lessons to be learned, or not how they should be learned. So, substitute other more contrived less factual "stories" to steer the students to the lessons (pc approved) that they need to supposedly learn.

One of my pet peeves.

Barb, I'd love to know why those particular books are "banned". Do you have any way of finding that out?

Our Constitution needs just one more ammendment. One that says:
Before taking office, Every politician and preacher will be required to spend 30 days, on bread and water, studying the Curan; after which a quiz will be given, and failure is not an option. You can find it in english on Google

Hey Seashell, locally here, some of those books were taken out of the school libraries because they were deemed "inappropriate". Apparently there were complaints that led to it, but nobody knows where the complaints came from. Personally, I think it was some prude on the school boards.

Probably they were taking too much time away from diversity training.

Got a better idea how about Ammendment 28 - Every office holder, from each of the three Branches of Government, must submit to a polygraph test once a week while holding Office. Failure is not an option.

why would they ban 1984? That is one of my fave books of all time!

The Meaning of the Koran
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/201...on&emc=tya1

Re 1984 -- maybe the "rewriting history" and "double speak" ideas hit too close to home. ;-)

I will look for the list (but I may have recycled it), it had reasons on it like "too political", "anti gov't", "racial", etc.

One book that SHOULD be in all schools is UP FROM SLAVERY, by Booker T Washington: a truly inspirational work that reports how ones station in life, however bleak it may seem, can be remedied by hard work and an undying resolve to improve......

I doubt that it will become required reading though.... no Big Government intervention is need to aid in his sucess!!