Burning of the Koran

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Sep 082010
 

This is reported by the BBC and others:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11223457

US church defiant despite condemnation of Koran burning

Terry Jones said he had prayed over the matter but insisted the Koran-burning would go ahead

A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary

This is just plain wrong. As much as I think that the Koran (and the Bible for that matter) is full of nonsense, I don’t think a public event to glorify the burning of the book is the correct way to highlight the nonsense. A critical review of the Koran with critical arguments and appropriate mocking is the best and honest way. All that this book-burning will do is push people further to the extremes and everything that is associated with such extremism.

For a quick (mostly correct) check on the nonsense in the Koran look at these links:

And for balance, here’s a check for nonsense in the Bible:

Although there is a lot of nonsense in the Bible, “Christian extremism” is now rare and has not really existed in any tangible form for some time (eg Spanish Inquisition) but this Koran-burning event is an unwelcome and unneeded move in that direction of extremism; it rather smacks of the naive and irrational burning of the “The Satanic Verses” by Muslims and the book-burning events by the Nazis. If a Christian wants to question and explore what the Koran says then Christians have already done most of the hard work:

Please note that I do not endorse everything at this site (as I think Christianity is absurd too) but what I was attempting to do was show a better way for a Christian to criticise the Koran than book-burning.

Here are some links that I do (mostly!) endorse:

What I would ask is for you to examine the evidence, the arguments and make up your own minds. But make sure that it is an honest assessment of the evidence otherwise the effort is just a waste of your time.

Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2010

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