Consider it already burned, and yourself already conquered

For those whose attention was diverted by the opening of school, football season, or the “new” TV programs, when the entire population of the United States was threatened with random killing, the Federal government made a point of visibly and audibly backing down in our name, making the point that burning a Koran is distinctly unlike burning a Bible, a Torah, a Bhagavad-Gita, or other religious holy book -- something that happens every day (mostly by Muslim governments) without retaliation.

Rightly or wrongly, Muslims have accepted blame for the 9-11 outrage, and now use it as a Jihad recruiting tool, to such extent that the US military openly worries that any action by any American perceived as insulting to Islam will further imperil their troops. Let there be no controversy: Islam now dictates what every last citizen -- every last resident of the USA, legal or not -- may do as regards Islam in particular, and Muslims in general. No other religion wields such power or control over the US government.

Whether Rev. Jones' initial Koran-burning threat was self-serving or not, the fallout makes several key points:

• Islam is intensely collectivist – punishing any random American, or many of them) for what is perceived as the offense of another, satisfies the islamic sense of “justice” fully as well as punishing the offender; (Could this be why the politcal Left has an affinity with Islam that it has with no other religion?)
• Islam has put the entire world on notice that it considers mere persuasion too cowardly a way to spread the faith – its adherents intend to spread it by conquest alone;
• Most governments (and most notably, that of the United States) have already accorded a special “kid-gloves” treatment to Islam: they would never concede as much to any other religion.

The Imam, Rauf, threatened that if his thirteen-story digital salute of a mosque were not allowed to be built, other Muslims, with whom he would have no need to make direct contact, would feel provoked (and entitled) to avenge him with random attacks in America, wherever the opportunity presented itself. Indeed, some Muslims, outraged that anyone would dare to threaten to burn a symbol of the world domination scheme they serve, have said that the mere threat of Koran-burning, alone, is grounds enough, that merely backing down by both the government, and by the preacher who initially made the threat, changes nothing, and that the threat of random violence continues unabated, as nothing significant has changed.