“That was mere foreplay. Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings” Heinrich Heine
Heine had a good vision because he stated this one century before Nazi rise to power. We all know that the two major things that Nazi did were : burning books and burning people. The Nazis didn’t burn just any books. They burned the books of Jews, communists and socialists. Nazi thought those books were advocating ideas which they believed would undermine the safety of the society and then they burned people because they strongly believed those people would also undermine the safety of the society.
With the amount of hate that I see in this type of behavior I will not be surprised to see that one day they burn muslims too. The entire idea is wrong. Ignorant, radicals, and fanatics are come in all shapes and colors . Khomeni straight went to the people burning part by giving the Fatva for Rushdie’s head. The only difference is this is an isolate act of an individual but that was an act of the leader of a nation. If we do not educate people of the wrong nature of these isolated acts then we may end up seeing these events turn to an ideology. Then the result would be much more catastrophic than just burning a book …
