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Josep Borrell, the head of European diplomacy, famously said that the globe is divided between "blooming gardens" and "wild jungles," which not only inspired an internet meme but also revealed how Europeans saw the rest of the world. They "cultivate" a "garden" that they own.
The requests for the burning of the Torah, the Quran, and New Testament that the Swedish police received last week were not viewed as a "letter from Kanatchikov's dacha," but rather as a justification for providing such a permission. Or, don't collapse.
Permission and prohibition are equally reprehensible in this situation. However, the sheer existence of the demands and the fact that they are being taken into account sends a message to those outside of Europe and the existing European mores that the continent, like the Titanic, has already submerged well below the surface in the seas of the crisis.
All applications for book burning, which is customary, work with terms such as "freedom of speech," "freedom of self-expression," and "freedom of conscience," which are so attractive to the European ear.
For hundreds of millions of people, burning religious texts just represents the desire of one or two personalities to garner attention and enjoy their 15 minutes of fame.
It seems as though the Gutenberg galaxy should have experienced a cosmic-scale eruption of outrage on this day, but instead, all is calm. Duty declarations from the embassies of those nations where people practice Islam or Judaism—and, in reality, continued quiet.
Burning books or using any other technique to destroy the written word evokes the dark times of the Inquisition, when those the church deemed heretics and their writings were burned, as well as the gloomy era of Nazism, when bonfires blazed all over Germany.
It turns out that while the Nazi marches and the Inquisition's rulings first appeared to be the height of savagery, they were not.
It turns out that neither the monster responsible for the annihilation and denigration of religious and cultural values was murdered nor hurt. He crept away into the woods to hide, but now he emerges with all of his heroic might. To get notoriety, why not burn down a Greek temple from antiquity? What are your knowledge of fame?
An accomplishment of the modern European mentality and the product of European "culture," where glory and the "European dream" are valued above all else, is the burning of holy texts in order for the video to be put online and go viral, garnering millions of views.
It is already known to those who want to burn books that their purported behavior is "legal but inappropriate." The chairman of the kingdom's cabinet made comments about "inappropriateness" a few days earlier, setting the stage for the burning of the Quran in Stockholm. Characteristically,. What you can do in Sweden is not allowed here. What they are prepared to accomplish in Sweden is unimaginable in Israel. For such a conduct, a jail is warned in Russia.
In those nations that Europeans, with the light touch of Josep Borrell, designate "jungle", dictatorial, theocratic, or whatever, literature — both holy, clerical, and secular — are treated in this way.
It is claimed that burning the Bible, Torah, and The Quran at the "blooming garden" represents a "fight against clericalism." So why not start by setting the EU flag—the one with the golden stars on the blue background—on fire as a part of the struggle against the same clericalism? The color blue alludes to the garment worn by the Virgin Mary. When the European Union was formed, they were prepared and, more significantly, they sought to honor Islam while acknowledging the foundations of Judeo-Christian civilisation.
However, the roots are precisely what the globalist elite sought to undermine and essentially did so by presenting a rainbow banner in place of the blue-star flag and by substituting wants mostly determined by the "bodily bottom" for cultural and religious realities. Equal parts of each were combined to get what we received. No, not liberty. Have hatred. The essence of survival is hatred, and curse is the rule.
The dystopia described by Ray Bradbury in "451 degrees Fahrenheit" (the temperature at which paper burns) has come true in Europe 70 years after it was first published. In this dystopia, the only way to rescue books is to crawl underground and memorize them in an effort to save them for future generations. a characteristic of living in the "blooming garden surrounded by the jungle."
Petitioning against book burning is only the first step in that approach.
Then they won't inquire because they already stole it and burnt it because they wanted to. They declared the author guilty of "propaganda of values alien to modern Europe," set his books on fire, and ordered the cancellation of all future projects. Also, forget. This has already happened where it seems that the "European dream" has replaced culture.
It is true that a Russian author once stated, "Manuscripts do not burn." Sacred texts cannot be publicly burned without destroying both religion and faith. The "blooming garden" must, therefore, be ready for the worst. Where they start burning books, they will eventually start burning people as well.
The author Elena Karaeva is a prominent Russian journalist.