Lebanon Library Burned For Offending Islam

[stromboli]

http://stateofmind13.com/2014/01/04/leb ... ry-burned/

2014 is off to a horrible start in Lebanon. The explosion that took place in Beirut yesterday, in the year's first few days, has been paralleled by another act of terrorism in Lebanon's northern capital, where extremist gunmen torched the city's biggest library, Lebanon's second, burning it to the ground.

They accused the priest running the library, a man who has been fighting to keep that place alive against contractors who worked to dismantle the building in which it resided, of publishing an article that offends Islam. I guess offenses are in the eye of the beholder. In this case, the eyes are for illiterate people who can't read and who don't know the value of a book.

The country is burning, let's not worry about a library. A lot of people might say that. But the library in question was a true national treasure, containing 78000 books, many of which exist in very few copies and many of which are, ironically, books about Islam. I'm also sure the library contained Qurans. Father Ibrahim Sarrouj, the library's curator, has lived in Tripoli all his life and is known to being an encompassing person of the city's diversity.
Tripoli cannot sit out the ongoing tragedies blowing through Lebanon lately. We just lost 78,000 books. We have lost many innocent lives as well over the past few days. And for the sake of what? Wars that we have nothing to do with, being fought over our territory, by people who have gone through a few cycles of brain washing in order to get them to believe that killing innocent people whose lives are well ahead of them or burning down a library will bring them favors with their own version of god and prophet.

Once again religion at its most enlightened.

[Insult to Rocks]

Religion targeting knowledge to preserve ignorance? Seems about right.

[Shiranu]

They accused the priest running the library, a man who has been fighting to keep that place alive against contractors who worked to dismantle the building in which it resided...

Any possibility these terrorists weren't hired by the contractors, or the contractors themselves?

[kilodelta]

I read that as "Lesbian Library."

[Cocoa Beware]

All powerful god... as usual completely reliant on immeasurably inferior creatures to respond to slights made by these same creatures; who somehow hurt his not so invincible feelings...

Created the Universe?! This guy?!

[StupidWiz]

Allah is indeed a pathetic loser. Oh... I'm sorry, Muhammad, because he created it. Yes, I call Allah as it, not him.

[SGOS]

I'm getting bored with Muslims competing with each other to prove who can take the most umbrage at least significant offense.  It's such a petty religion.  It offers nothing but a glorification of ignorance to the modern world.  It's even more distasteful than Christianity.

[Aletheia]

Well, that's one way to encourage a following. Step right up, our religion offers perpetual violence, ignorance, and very poor people skills...

Islam is like a bully who can't win an argument, so they try to beat up the smart kid instead.

[Rex Rgis Verum]

And these were the same peoples that were leading the world in science, mathematics, medicine, education, art, culture, and philosophy from the 8th century until the Mongols decided to conquer Baghdad some time during the 13th century. Unfuckingbelievable turnaround. #-o

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Fuck em.. Everything insults Islam these days. Islam insults Islam. Maybe these ignorant fucks will insult each other to death and we'll be done with them all.

[frosty]

The entire region is now faced with submitting to the Iran/Assad/Hezbollah camp or the Takfirist camp. No wonder it seems like the Middle East is backwards and in the stone ages, some violent or negative things are always happening which prevent civil society from being properly built.

[josephpalazzo]

Enlightment is the greatest enemy of Islam, or any other religion for that matter.