The Bible burning took place back on September 16.

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/trial-alleged-bible-burners-adjourned-14-october

Muneeb Tahir — in the U.S., we would not want the cleric prosecuted for burning a book.

We don’t believe in burning books, but we will tolerate an act while judging it, each of us, naturally, privately.

For that matter, we don’t believe in murdering the authors of books that don’t appeal to us.

We leave them be, and if their actions, words, or works are truly bad (by way of craft, demeanor, or intetions), then we leave them to wake up in the morning naturally secure but perhaps isolated from the mainstream, and, because of “western” values and norms (quotations used because I don’t believe them exclusive to westerners but inclusive of all men and women everywhere equally), also broadly disrespected, marginalized, and shunned — all cultural and social effects opposite of the intentions of such lost and maddened peacocks.

The invention and exploitation of blasphemy laws, which are medieval legal technologies, serve to license sadism (in the name of unjust retribution) and theft.

Blasphemy laws are the work of venal men.

There is no God, no Allah, in them, and, indeed, they provide some men a way to masquerade as God — literally, to judge as if God — in the name of God.