@&^%$*(&# )(*&^%)! ^*(&%$!(* book burners

All the expletives I know (and believe you me, I know plenty) are not enough to describe people who hate Christians and Christianity with such a vile dangerous passion that they can vent out their anger on even their books.  The idiots didn't even know that probably half the collection had stories to do with islam.

From OrontesJimdo:
....Lebanon Loses 78000 Books To Terrorism: Tripoli’s “Al Sa’eh” Library Burned.  A decades-old library owned by an Antiochian Orthodox priest, Father Ibrahim Surouj, in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli was torched late Friday.
Note: Lebanon’s northern City of Tripoli has been polarised as a result of the Syrian Conflict. The city has long become a centre for radical Salafi Islamist activity and many takfiri fighters from the city have gone to fight with the opposition in Syria....

From ASeparateStateOfMind blog:
2014 is off to a horrible start in Lebanon. The explosion that took place in Beirut yesterday, in the year’s first few days, has been paralleled by another act of terrorism in Lebanon’s northern capital, where extremist gunmen torched the city’s biggest library, Lebanon’s second, burning it to the ground.
They accused the priest running the library, a man who has been fighting to keep that place alive against contractors who worked to dismantle the building in which it resided, of publishing an article that offends Islam. I guess offenses are in the eye of the beholder. In this case, the eyes are for illiterate people who can’t read and who don’t know the value of a book.
The country is burning, let’s not worry about a library. A lot of people might say that. But the library in question was a true national treasure, containing 78000 books, many of which exist in very few copies and many of which are, ironically, books about Islam. I’m also sure the library contained Qurans. Father Ibrahim Sarrouj, the library’s curator, has lived in Tripoli all his life and is known to being an encompassing person of the city’s diversity..........