Jack Lang:  Public Nuisance


I had never heard of Jack Lang until a friend informed me that he was trotting around Plano, Texas with a piglet under his arm.  I did not realize that he also took a pig mask which looks like it was stolen from an underground orgy club and stuffed a Qur'an in it's mouth. 

https://www.facebook.com/radarafrica/videos/right-wing-activist-jake-lang-stuffed-a-quran-into-a-dead-pigs-mouth-during-prot/1731536474210226/

His latest need-to-be-seen action was to stir up sufficient animosity in Minneapolis so that he could be seen suffering at the hands of the indignant.  An appropriate response would be for everyone to walk away and ignore this ignorant provocateur.  But Jack is needy.  Very needy - like that little boy who laughs while his mother gives him a whuppin' - because any attention is better than no attention.  Jack is also probably a lonely and friendless soul.

On principle, I am not against burning a Qur'an anymore than I oppose an individual burning a Bible.  The Constitution guarantees your right to make a jackass out of yourself.  Feel free to burn a Bible in front of me.  Watch me yawn and look amused.  But since I have read three different transliterations of the Qu'ran in English - if anyone had the right to burn the book - it would probably be me.  

The point I am trying to make that most individuals who choose such a course of action have never read either the Bible or the Qu'ran cover-to-cover.  In fact, it is doubtful they own a personal library with literary classics, biographies of important historical figures, and they probably think Nietzsche is a German sausage.   Not only do these fools exhibit pre-Copernican behavior, they probably lack the subtle aspects of literacy which guide an individual toward coherency and critical thinking skills.

Additional sneaky and unsavory actions have been mounted against the Muslims in my community.  I am not at liberty to discuss them; they are part of my journalism experience and confidentiality agreements. But they are distasteful, unnecessary, and bigoted.

My Christianity has never wavered nor is it threatened by a book which is revered by Muslims.  Nor should a Muslim feel threatened or vulnerable reading the Bible.  Faith is exercised beyond the world of polymers, and is an issue of the heart.

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