All Consuming Hatred

Hitlerian book burnings- sound like an apt idea? Those who burn books will soon be burning people, but those most fervent and dogmatic followers of Islam, the most dedicated adherents to the Koran are already burning people, completely innocent people going to work in New York towers, people of other faiths who have the misfortune of encountering Islamists in London, Madrid, Bali, Thailand, the Philippines, or Israel, and most of all, other Muslims who conceive of Islam differently or who just happen to be in the way of this warping of Islam become nihilism. And this hate breeds indiscriminate violence- what other faith group sets off car bombs in public markets assuring mass murder and the carnage of women and children? What religion is so misogynistic in the world today? A shaheed does not display Islam's strength when he martyrs himself in the willful murder of others. Quite the contrary- when Islam shows such intolerance and inflexibility by refusing to even hear much less debate other religions' merits, Islam is portraying crumbling weakness. When in an open forum, people can compare the message of a particular faith group and decide to adopt its practice, that is a show of tolerance and strength but when a religion compels compliance with not a metaphoric but literal sword, that becomes an evil religion. Debate the Koran- do not burn it.