It’s not about “hate” or “hate speech” — at least as it pertains to the law, and the evident concerns cited on this thread.

The applicable legal test here is whether the burning of Korans can be halted under proscribed limits of free speech rights. And those proscribed limits are tested under the “imminent lawless action” threshold.

Will the burning of Korans (or Bibles, or American flags) incite “imminent lawless action?”

And/or, did the display called “Piss Christ” (in 1987, or ever) incite “imminent lawless action?”

An interesting test of “rights” is quite evident here, both with the mosque and the planned burning of Korans. Competing “rights” with valid claims often become the true test of “leadership” and “statesmanship” — qualities desperately lacking in this debate.

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