Did not know how to approach but since I wrote something about "respecting symbols" it seems to me that some do not quite understand that.
Some comment was made on the 4 day old rioting in Afghanistan triggered by "Qur'an burning".
: Why go as far as killing just for protection of a book?
But you do not realize this is NOT Just a BOOK this is Qur'an which has more respect among Muslims than Christians have for Bible. However I agree that killing is wrong no matter how loss of life is brought about in these riots Killing is NOT justifiable at all.
OK so if the Christians or Non-Muslims of these forces burn Qur'an, why not retaliate and burn Bible?--- there is the catch. Muslims hold Bible just as special and respected as a Sacred book--well may be not as much as Qur'an. (After all Bible is just an English translation) But the point that is missed here is the SYMBOL. Qur'an is a symbol of Islam. For example: people burn the flag of a country-well it is just a piece of cloth why get excited about it?
There is the whole point
There was also a comment that Terrorists shoot and kill attacking a mosque so what about the Qur'an copies that get burned by Muslims also?
Again the point is they are not burning Qur'an copies they are killing people and of course they desecrate the mosque. They lost the faith and therefore they attack the mosque. I do not consider them Muslims.
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Some comment was made on the 4 day old rioting in Afghanistan triggered by "Qur'an burning".
: Why go as far as killing just for protection of a book?
But you do not realize this is NOT Just a BOOK this is Qur'an which has more respect among Muslims than Christians have for Bible. However I agree that killing is wrong no matter how loss of life is brought about in these riots Killing is NOT justifiable at all.
OK so if the Christians or Non-Muslims of these forces burn Qur'an, why not retaliate and burn Bible?--- there is the catch. Muslims hold Bible just as special and respected as a Sacred book--well may be not as much as Qur'an. (After all Bible is just an English translation) But the point that is missed here is the SYMBOL. Qur'an is a symbol of Islam. For example: people burn the flag of a country-well it is just a piece of cloth why get excited about it?
There is the whole point
There was also a comment that Terrorists shoot and kill attacking a mosque so what about the Qur'an copies that get burned by Muslims also?
Again the point is they are not burning Qur'an copies they are killing people and of course they desecrate the mosque. They lost the faith and therefore they attack the mosque. I do not consider them Muslims.
Please visit my Urdu blog at http://saugoree-bsc.blogspot.com/