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There is certainly nothing in the Qur'an to condone burning books. Tom Send a noteboard - 28/01/2013 10:16:44 PM
There is a larger problem in defining what "is" or "isn't" Islam these days, due to the lack of a religious heirarchy, but certainly burning books is not part of any branch of Islam that I am aware of. The Buddha destruction was obviously the direct result of a strict Salafist reading of the prohibition on images. Either way, I think that any group that does this sort of thing is awful.

The Ahmed Baba Institute was supposed to be carefully digitizing all of the texts, but it hadn't had a chance to digitize the vast majority of the texts. It's sad - what have we lost? Texts in Arabic, African languages, Turkish...we may never know what gems were preserved for centuries.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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Yet another attack on civilization by Islamic extremists - 28/01/2013 05:03:49 PM 706 Views
this is fucking terrible. I get sick everytime I think about the burning of baghdad libraries....... - 28/01/2013 07:11:09 PM 567 Views
They were digitizing the texts. - 28/01/2013 07:37:59 PM 404 Views
There is certainly nothing in the Qur'an to condone burning books. - 28/01/2013 10:16:44 PM 453 Views
Its okay, the magical time travel cats saved the books - 29/01/2013 03:56:13 AM 403 Views

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