Keep the Koran Safe.

So a Koran was burnt and seven people were murdered and two beheaded after a protest call by an Islamic cleric. And I thought the Catholics were strict. How terrible a sin it must be to burn one copy of a book you can buy on Amazon for £4.47 (£0.71 Kindle edition) That’s less than 70p a life. I mean what if you bought one and didn’t like it and threw it in the trash? There must be millions out there and a lot chewed up by cows or dropped in the canal or something. What if the bookshop wrapped one up by mistake and you got home and it wasn’t The History of the BSA, it was a Koran. You’d be saddled with it for the rest of your life knowing if anything happened to it you’d be responsible for the multiple deaths of non Muslims. And if your house caught fire you’d have to rush back in, past the kids to save the Koran you bought in a charity shop to see what all the fuss was about with Salman Rushdie. But how can we save people from committing this terrible, terrible sin? I have an idea. What if we gathered up all the Korans in the world and placed them in a very safe place, a concrete bunker with thick steel doors and locked them away for a thousand years; that would do it. It’s a small price to pay to avoid all that murder and beheading in the name of Allah. I think Allah would like that, it would appeal to his sense of irony.