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Originally Posted by astra
They should not be alienated. Just because one pastor wants to do it, doesn't mean all Americans agree with him, does it?
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I don't know - I'm not very patriotic but if I encounter someone going out of their way to be offensive about the UK, (or England, or Yorkshire), I get offended. It's not so much to do with the act itself but to do with the sense of ill-will towards me that the act generates. Again, offending people by burning a book is as nothing compared with stoning a woman to death because she was raped. But just as many Americans do not align themselves with the loopy pastor, so many Muslims do not align themselves murdering women who have had the misfortune to be raped. The trouble with an act such as the one the pastor proposed is that it is indiscriminate in that it seems to be directed at all Muslims.