We are no strangers to the desecration of the Quran in Sweden and other parts of Europe. The history of book burnings in Europe dates back to the Middle Ages, when these acts held significant symbolism, extending far beyond mere written words.

According to Dr Farid Hafez, a senior research fellow at the Bridge Initiative at Georgetown University, book burnings take on a role of symbolic persecution when the targeted people are absent or deceased, with their representations destroyed.

“For me, book burning is a symbolic murder or symbolic destruction if the people these books symbolise cannot be eliminated,” he says.

Dr Hafez also cites German Jewish author Heinrich Heine’s famous words, ‘Those who burn books will ultimately burn people,’ in reference to the historical context of the Spanish Inquisition.

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