Intolerance and Book Burning

You have lately come to a reluctant acceptance of a view that we cannot really understand what is going on betwen the ears of our fellow humans. Okay, we can guess. We can do so all day long. In fact, we have been doing that since Adam opened his mouth, but since Man is not really part of a physical process subject to immutable laws, we often guess wrong and then we profess surprise. What's more reliable as an indicator of what's going on in his brain is the kind of behavior he exhibits and then to a much lesser extent what he says.

So when you read in the news that a Christian pastor is planning to burn the Korans to commemorate 9/11 attack on America, you say, what a sorry piece of rotten meat of a human. Rotten Christians have vilified Muhammad and heaped scorn on Islam while some Muslims have burned down churches, they have not attacked Christianity publicly and called it a religion of a devil as some Christians have openly and publicly characterized Islam. More noticeably, Jesus has never been attacked by Muslims. Why is there a glaring contrast in the behavior of the zealots in each religion regarding the founder of the other religion? While both Jesus and Muhammad preached tolerance and love and fairness, Muhammad specifically commanded his followers to respect Moses and Jesus because to Muhammad, they were prophets. Muslims, even the zealots and the extremists, took the teaching and commandment to heart whereas Christian zealots do not. Who take their religion more seriously? You have not heard Muslims burning the Chrsitian bibles while Americans in Iraq have been reported to treat the Korans with lack of respect such as placing them on toilets or throwing them on the floor.

Intolerance comes from ignorance. Book burning of any kind is an affront to civilization. Burning a religious text of a religion one happens to hate is an act of utter and complete human degradation,