Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - More Quran burning in Sweden in the name of "Freedom of Expression " 2

i'm like toyin adepoju in thinking the value of the book doesn't really lie in its material properties. and i wouldn't let the haters bait me.

on the other hand, there's lots of burning i would really mind a lot.

i recently read of the various statues and scrolls etc destroyed by the various goons during the iraq war—priceless heritage of all human kind. and the taliban destruction of the buddhist statues.

if it were a 8^th century qur'an, i'd be upset; if it were an early christian relic, i'd be upset.

etc etc

the nazis burned everything jewish they could get their hands on, or sold them. i don't like that.

toyin is right: we don't want to go to war over idolatry of this or that manuscript; but we do want to give value to humanity in our veneration of objects we treasure....like, for instance, the benin bronzes, or ifa heads or yoruba masks etc. when the missionaries burned them they were the same as the foolish iraqi man in sweden who delighted in desecration of the qur'an.

i'm with anthony appiah on this: the relics of each of us are relics for all of us.

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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If it were my own holy book being burnt I would not care

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 2:22 PM Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:

A copy of the Holy Quran was burned outside a mosque in Sweden on Wednesday during the  Eid al-Adha celebration 

Saudi Arabia condemns extremist who burnt Quran outside Stockholm mosque during Eid

Holy Wrath 👍

Turkeye's President Erdogan reacts to the burning of a Quran outside a mosque in Sweden :

""We will eventually teach the arrogant Westerners that insulting Muslims is not freedom of thought; We will show our reaction in the strongest possible terms, until a determined victory against terrorist organizations and Islamophobia is achieved, Those who commit this crime as well as those who allow it under the guise of freedom of opinion, those who tolerate this despicable act will not be able to achieve their ambitions"

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