“I’m not Muslim but I’m more Muslim than the lunatics who torched that library”
And he is sure damn right. It reminds me of a quote by Muhammad Abduh:
“I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam”
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.
This is the supposed article in question:
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…
View original post 578 more words
Whispers of Satan 