Tina Dupuy On the Dove World Outreach Center

Tina Dupuy has an op-ed on the Gainesville church Dove World Outreach Center's planned Koran booking burning. Dupuy mentions others in history who thought book burning was a wonderful thing.

The Ancient Library of Alexandria was burned by Julius Caesar in 48 B.C.E. The loss of its contents arguably set back technology and culture for millennia. The conquistadors destroyed Mayan codices of their history and religion, obscuring the ancient Mayan culture indefinitely. The Mongol invaders massacred the Library of Baghdad resulting in the death of a massive “house of wisdom.” These events forever altered history mainly because they took place before the printing press.

Book burning is for the truly ignorant.