An badly-named group called the Dove World Outreach Centre and its leader, one Reverend Terry Jones, have gained notoriety of late for promoting ‘International Burn a Quran Day’.

A YouTube user I really like, Anekantavad, has an elegant riposte: Don’t Burn Any Books Day. He holds up a series of books from his library – 1984 by Orwell, the Bhagavadgita, the Quran, the Collected Works of Oscar Wilde, the Joy of Sex, Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert – and simply saying he will not be burning them or any other.

Quite a few YouTube users have followed suit, myself included. My books were A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr, In Defence of Politics by Bernard Crick, La Venganza de Don Mendo by Pablo Muñoz Seca, The Citadel by AJ Cronin, Reflections on Violence by Georges Sorel and the Anabasis by Xenophon.

He has collected various videos from people taking part in Don’t Burn Any Books Day in the playlist that follows below.

xD.

Posted on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Categories: Books, Religion, YouTube.
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