Stewart denied there was any marijuana in his cigarettes, saying the bag of green material he holds up to the camera is nothing but lawn clippings.
But he defiantly insisted it was a genuine copy of the Koran and swore that he had every right to conduct a mock comparison of the two holy books in order to determine which one makes a better rolling paper.
While cutting a section from a page of the Koran, he reads a verse and comments: "It sounds like someone wrote this while they were smashed or stoned, whatever."
LUNG-BUSTER. Near the end of his tongue-in-cheek 12-minute video “experiment”, a bleary-eyed Stewart comments that “the Bible is more conducive to good burning than the Koran,” which he says produces a harsher smoke because of the quality of the paper “not the words written on it.”
"It's just a f...ing book, who cares," Mr Stewart told the Brisbane Times.
"Like you can burn a flag and no one cares, people get over it so with respect to books like the Bible, the Koran, or whatever, just get over it.
"I mean, it's not as though they're burning your copy, they're burning somebody else's.
PLEASE EXPLAIN. By this morning (13/9/10), however, Stewart was sounding a good deal less confident.
“I'm screwed,” he wrote on the Brisbane Atheists website.
“I think I will lose my job over this. Damn it.”
Mr Stewart may well be right about that. A QUT spokesman said the institution would seek “an urgent meeting” to discuss the video.
