(I first wrote this article in March of this year. It unfortunately remains all too relevant in light of recent events,)
What does a Koran cost? You can get a full color one for the Kindle for
only 99 cents, just don't expect it to feature any pictures of old Mo.
If you want to go deluxe, you can get a hardcover edition that runs
three different translations side by side for around 40 bucks. But if
you want to be more practical about it, the price of a Koran is the
lives of six American soldiers.
That butcher's bill doesn't count the soldiers who burned the Korans,
who despite following procedure will be penalized on orders of the White
House which thinks that punishing American soldiers will somehow
satisfy the Koran fueled bloodlust of men who aren't satisfied with
their corpses.
The nature of the marketplace of human affairs is that a thing is worth
what we will pay for it. Once upon a time Americans decided to pay any
price for freedom. The price was high, but they got what they paid
for... at least for a season or two. The Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution were works of freedom written in blood. They made a
free nation possible because that nation was willing to pay the price
for them.
Muslims are equally willing to pay the price in blood for slavery, their
own slavery and ours, for a book of slavery, written by an owner and
abuser of slaves, who created a religion of slaves, where the optimal
position was to stand on as many people as possible while reaching for
heaven.
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