[Technogeeb]

One of them cursed me when I tried to reclaim a book of Islamic law from a boy who could have been no more than 10 years old

Translation: "I got caught trying to steal a book from a child and one of the adults scolded me".

[I still care]

An interesting statement. The child wasn't burning the book, he was taking it? And Fisk tried to get it from him? This foreign "journalist" is trying to take a book on law from a child. "Here, give me that!"

So was it looted first? Or just burnt? I find it very strange people would burn a library full of antique books when supposedly they were stealing everything that wasn't nailed down. Maybe there was more to this building than met the eye?