With regard to the Florida Church pastor who is planning a book buring of the Quran on 9-11-10 ----On December 7th do we Americans (ie.Christians) burn the Tripitaka or destroy statues of Buddha because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? No, we do not !!
Among the books burned in Nazi Germany in 1933 were the writings of the beloved nineteenth-century German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, who wrote in his 1820-1821 play Almansor the famous admonition, “Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt... man am Ende auch Menschen": "Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people."
The action of this church is completely ignorant and inappropriate.
After I wrote this I just read on Yahoo! News:
"Updated: Thu Sep. 09 2010 16:07:29
The pastor of a Florida church says he's calling off plans to burn 200 copies of the Islamic holy book on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Rev. Terry Jones, head of the 50-member Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., made the announcement on Thursday following growing pressure over the burning."
Great comment from Heinrich Heine. I totally agree.
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