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As far as I know, around the globe the only two people\/groups that did not participate in the \u201cDon\u2019t Burn A Qur\u2019an Day\u201d held this past weekend are the folks at Westboro Baptist Church<\/a> (who\u2019ll burn anything) and Alex Stewart in Brisbane<\/a>, who is down to a pack a day<\/a> and is apparently trying to quit:<\/p>\n

When we consider how hard it can be for a person or group to back down from doing something they\u2019ve committed to, we should appreciate the reversal by the Dove World Outreach Center. And we should also make sure that we don\u2019t slide over the boundary from using our freedom of speech to express dismay at Qur\u2019an burning, and trying to curtail the freedom of others to offend religious believers<\/a>. The former is what freedom of speech is for; the latter places it in jeopardy and seriously undermines it.<\/p>\n

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