For those who may be sick enough to be caravanning to Gainesville this Saturday to attend the Burn A Koran Day sponsored by Pastor Terry Jones and the Dove World Outreach Center to commemorate the ninth anniversary of 9/11, may I remind you: Please don't forget to pack a few other items for this bonfire of the vanities.
Old Beatles albums and Elvis records also burn real well, as do draft cards, bras, copies of "Tropic of Cancer," "Catcher In The Rye," "Tom Sawyer" and "To Kill A Mockingbird," and you can neatly wrap them up in an American flag with all your dignity and toss them toward the center piece at the event - a burning cross with George W. Bush hanging in effigy on it.
So on the day that you'll show your disdain for Muslims and, in general, for religious bigotry and murder, you zealots can find it perfectly OK to openly practice your alternative brand of religious intolerance for the world to see. Yet you can't even see that you're just as blind as any of the other religious fanatics you're condemning.
Oh yeah. USF plays the University of Florida in Gainesville on that day, too. What better way to spend an afternoon than to tailgate at a book burning and boo the Muslim world while they watch and then target American soldiers in retaliation for this asinine act of defilement?
BYRON A. BROWN
Tampa
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