In an op-ed entitled "The Internet: Enabling Pastor Terry Jones and crazies everywhere," Michael Gerson of the Washington Post, blamed the internet for the viral global reaction over a "half-crazed Florida pastor" threatening to burn some Korans. Bad internet!The uproar had absolutely nothing to do with, say, radical Muslim's blood-thirsty knee jerk response whenever their beloved symbols are desecrated. Instead it was a dastardly deed perpetrated by an electronic device capable of sending messages of peace, hate, and propaganda at lightning speed throughout the world.May I remind Gerson, but for the internet, he would have been ‘so yesterday' after leaving his speechwriting job under George W. Bush.After making the case against the web as a tool for crazies, Gerson went on to compare Christianity's holy book to Islam's holy book.A third enabling condition comes from within Islam itself, which is a religion of the book in a way that Christianity is not. In...(Read Full Post)