Church Plans on Burning the Qur’an on 9/11

 Here they go again.

This time it is the Dove World Outreach Center of Gainesville, Florida who have declared 9/11, the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, “International Burn a Koran Day.”

Outside of the guaranteed publicity, The Dove World Outreach Center supplies these ten reasons on why burning the Qur’an is a righteous act. The Church also offers “free shelter and food for women who want to escape from Islam.”

Their request for a permit to hold the book-burning has been denied by local fire officials but the church still plans on proceeding. In an email to followers the church proclaimed : “City of Gainesville denies burn permit — BUT WE WILL STILL BURN KORANS,” 

There is no word yet if they are affiliated with the Amazing Grace Baptist Church of Canton, North Carolina who held last year’s Halloween Book Burning fiasco.

Article in the Gainesville Sun, Dove World told it can’t burn Qurans

Facebook page for  “International Burn a Koran Day”

For more on the leading role religion has played in the death of books I would suggest picking up a copy of  Fernando Báez’s seminal book A Universal History of the Destruction of Books which has just been released in paperback by Atlas & Co.

Previously on Book Patrol
A Halloween Book Burning: Only God’s Word Will Survive
About That Halloween Book Burning
Church Releases Video of Halloween Book Burning
Thoughts on the Book Pyro
Act 2: Kansas City Book Pyro Ignites Another Batch
The Chinese Book Burner and the Great Wall of Books 
Burning Books to Stay Warm 
Digital Book Burning 

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