[My2Cents]

A library of Korans in the religious endowments ministry was set on fire

Why am I not upset about this?

[cmattair]

You should be. Would you be upset if the Gutenburg bible in the LOC were destroyed.

Probably this stems from your view of the world being complete. History doesn't matter, no other opinions are valid and you haven't had an original thought since you were born.

[Risa]

>>Why am I not upset about this? <<

Upon reading the article, I felt a sense of relief and had to ask myself why I would feel this way - perhaps because Islam's fundamentalist adherents take the violent mythology expressed in these texts so literally and mean to do us harm because if it.

risa

[ValenB4]

Wouldn't it be a nice discovery if it is proven that there are different versions of the Koran out there - thus demonstrating that is is not a divine revelation? Such a discovery would weaken the rigid conservative elements within the Islamic world.

But besides that, all of history is worth preserving whether or not one has distaste for certain elements of a culture.

I certainly hope that it's true that professional smugglers got this stuff out, particularly any untranslated tablets. As long as the stuff is still intact, even if it takes 100 years or more, it can be recovered.

[jetson]

" They have stolen the four stones...we are doomed!