New Controversies around the Desecration of the Quran

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

So then it isn't about destroying the book.

Again spiritual perspective:
 
The only issue with the book is how much of it you are able to understand from that book. And that works for all religious scriptures. And there are stories in which the message is: “You can cast aside all religious practices if you want to, for only God knows who is able to understand spiritual realities and who is not”.
 
So this is just another act of provocation.
 
Another spiritual perspective:
 
This is the human ego to it’s extreme. In a country like Sweden you can really blame the lack of education or the dysfunctional family of this guy. This is just the limited sense of self. The failure of an individual to connect with something that is present in all human beings. Instead of being connected to our common denominator (B), he is connected to a fear-based sense of identity (A). And the issue of all true religion is to try to move from A to B.
 
This guy is very close to (A) but he has (as a human being) the ability to wake up to what he really is (See “American History X” – 1998). And that’s why we as spiritual people tend to focus on that rather to attack this guy.
 
Still: I am a believer in some legal consequences to actions like that in countries with important Muslim minorities

Why stop at Muslim books? Maybe we should have legal consequences for burning Dr. Seuss books in countries with important toddler minorities. We could fine or jail people for setting light to ‘Huckleberry Finn’ in countries with an important minority of people who live near rivers. Bastinado would be fitting for burning dictionaries in countries with an important minority of people who use words.

Any other forms of free expression you’d like to jump up and down on?

Boru