Sufi
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(Jewish) Settlers attack West Bank mosque and burn holy Muslim books
Settlers attack West Bank mosque and burn holy Muslim books - Times Online
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Burning books and effigies - What the hell is wrong with these people (all of 'em)?
- Thread starter Kathryn
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(Jewish) Settlers attack West Bank mosque and burn holy Muslim books
Settlers attack West Bank mosque and burn holy Muslim books - Times Online
Levite
Higher and Higher
Book burning is just as wrong when Jews do it as when non-Jews do it. I may not be very left-wing when it comes to Israeli politics, but I do believe that baseless hatred serves no purpose, and violence (while sometimes inevitable) should be kept to the absolute minimum necessary-- and that certainly doesn't include book-burning!
Sufi
Member
It opens a way(s) to violence if you ask me (burning any religious book) just to provoke and mock a religion in general.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
No doubt. Why would we expect religious people, whose religions teach and promote peace, to behave and respond peacefully? The whole idea is simply ludicrous.
David_2010
Member
I don't want to get too OT, but, I don't think those examples can be seen as a "neo-Holocaust", there more examples of mass murders, I'm not trying to defend those actions either, but, I just wanted to say there is a difference between the a genocide on the scale of the Holocaust, and mass murders (it's something I learnt about from my course at uni, where we studied the Politics of Mass Murder).
Rakhel
Well-Known Member
Godobeyer wanted a video or pictures of Muslims burning a bible because he didn't believe the articles posted. As for the article of the Mosque in Israel, I could counter by saying that just as many synagogues are attacked in that country too, but that would not serve the purpose of this thread which is book burning and not vandalism.
Sufi
Member
French Colonialism caused the death of 1.000.000 Algerians.
During the Italian colonial period, between 20% and 50% of the Libyan population died in the struggle for independence, and mainly in prison camps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya
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Bismillah
Submit
My grandfather taught me proper respect for books growing up. He forbid me to take texts in the bathroom because he believed 1) if the text mentioned the name of God the book did not belong there 2) I should show proper respect to all literature. For example he gave me a good whack across the head when I kept kicking my math textbook 
This was just for commonplace literature. For the holy books of Christianity and Judaism it is required to clean oneself before one can read the text. Hence whenever I have read the Bible I would make whuddu first. Burning any religious book is repulsive to me.
This was just for commonplace literature. For the holy books of Christianity and Judaism it is required to clean oneself before one can read the text. Hence whenever I have read the Bible I would make whuddu first. Burning any religious book is repulsive to me.
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Sufi
Member
West has it's own priorities and Arabs & Muslims in general aren't important in their view the Bosnian war should have been an eye opener.
for me it's the first time i heard about a muslim (I doubt about that ) burn the Bible ,Thanks for this video , but in that historic match , everything is burning lol , because it burning match....but who told you that was the Bible ??maybe something else .
but if we suppose that it's true , the pastor Terry Jones is not a young man, these were young men , (not Imam).
1-ok also we have , who Burning Quran at 9/11 NY, and the New testement .
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YouTube - J-Dub's Burn The Qu'ran Day Video (Religion Vlog4)
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YouTube - Man burns Quran at Ground Zero on 9/11 as mosque protests rock NY
2-Burning the New Testaments in Or Yehuda, by Jews :
Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Or Yehuda - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
3-Israeli abuse - We killed Jesus & We're Proud
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YouTube - Israeli abuse - We killed Jesus & We're Proud
All of these acts , not acceptable .
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Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
You don't seem to get it. We don't CARE if stupid people burn books. I mean, we may not LIKE it but we're not going to sacrifice our freedom of expression by outlawing an act of protest - even if it's a stupid act.
Look, burning a book doesn't hurt or threaten anyone - it only offends. If we start outlawing everything that offends other people, we would live in a very weird, paranoid, restricted society and that is an unacceptable alternative to most Americans and Westerners.
Thank God for that.
Look, burning a book doesn't hurt or threaten anyone - it only offends. If we start outlawing everything that offends other people, we would live in a very weird, paranoid, restricted society and that is an unacceptable alternative to most Americans and Westerners.
Thank God for that.
McBell
Unbound
Doesn't surprise me in the least.
I mean, if it wasn't for the fact that my father did three tours in Vietnam, I would not know much of anything about that fiasco.
kai
ragamuffin
well i am not surprised at all, they dont mention Umayyad,Abbasid,Ayyubid,Mamluke,Samanid,Taharid,Saffarid,Buyid,Sallarid,Almoravid,Almohad,Ghaznavid,Timurid,Mughal,Safavid,Afsharid or Ottoman much either. You would probably have to take it in a specialist subject