
Who knows? Koran and Quran are the most popular, but Wikipedia's telling me Coran, Alcoran, and Kuran are also legit. Qur'an, meanwhile, only seems to be used by Star Trek geeks and people trying to sound smart. My suggestion is to pick one of the first two and stick with it.
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That's kind of shifted a bit since the whole "people dying" aspect has been introduced.How so?
The Americans were really, really wrong about burning the Korans. Not necessarily from a "good vs. evil" standpoint, just a logistical one. We spend a lot of time talking about how silly fundamentalists are, and how little courtesy we should show them, but there's a big difference between taking a moral stand and inciting religious-fueled rage just for the hell of it.But they said it was an accident.
It kind of doesn't matter. We're over there to supposedly "nation-build," trying to make the country less anti-American in the process. Rule number one should be going out of one's way to not burn the most sacred document of said country. Those kinds of details, you want to keep an eye on.But doesn't that contradict your now seemingly over-simplistic "pocket guide to morality"?
Not really. The American military, if they're being truthful about it being an accident, shouldn't have been made “happy” from the burning, which makes the rest of the chart moot. That said, I should probably add an extra disclaimer: “If what makes you happy incites rage from a group of people who will then want to kill you, maybe don't do it?” More directly: “Try not piss off crazy people with guns.”OK then, smart guy. Where did the moral shift occur?
Once the first person was killed during the protests. After the Koran burning, if people want to respond by burning flags or creepy Obama dolls in effigy, have at it. It's silly, but from a morality perspective, it's mostly harmless and a good way to get your anger out, like a spiritual stress ball. But once a single life was lost in the following melee, it crossed the moral line. The Afghan protestors are now in the wrong.
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Of course Obama should have apologized. The Americans, culturally, stepped in a big pile of dung when they burned the Korans. Santorum's just using the moment to bait the religious right, who see the overseas wars as a "Christianity vs. Islam" battle. We should respond to this as we respond to all things Santorum: By alternately ignoring him and making jokes about him.All right then. Hope that was informative. Onto the other ways that religion just plain killed it (in a bad way) this week!

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