Sunday, 12 September 2010

THE KORAN AT FAHRENHEIT 451

THE KORAN AT FAHRENHEIT 451 September 10 - 12, 2010By ALEXANDER COCKBURN By the end of the week, the air was so thick with pieties about the need for tolerance and respect for all creeds that one yearned for the Rev. Terry Jones, mutton chop whiskers akimbo, to rescind his last minute cave-in, stiffen his spine, then toss those Korans into the burn barrels outside his Gainesville church in Florida and torch them on this year’s anniversary of 9/11. Jones announced on Thursday that he was canceling his Koran burning plan after getting a pledge ...