New Controversies around the Desecration of the Quran

[Anomalocaris]

I have a problem with people who complains about specific books being burned mainly because they like the fact that the book in question tells them to go burn other books, Or to desecrate other people’s cultural heritages.

Two wrongs don’t necessarily make a right,  but often the second wrong is very essential to preventing the first wrong from continuing to do ever more disastrously wrong.


The very reaction Muslims to the destruction of the Koran shows they do not admit other books to deserve the same protection.    Respecting their sensitivity in this respect is therefore to condone their trampling of less overbearing and more cosmopolitan sensitivities. 

When the same Muslims at least express regarded at the burning of other people’s holy books, then their sensitivity at the burning  of Koran may begin to be taken seriously.