I forgot to mention another interesting point. Some may think: "Well, maybe some Quranic verses are a sort of complex metaphors...". No way.
French scientist and writer
Blaise Pascal tells us why:
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Originally Posted by Pascal: Pensées, 597
It is not by that which is obscure in Mahomet, and which may be interpreted in a mysterious sense, that I would have him judged, but by what is clear, as his paradise and the rest. In that he is ridiculous. And since what is clear is ridiculous, it is not right to take his obscurities for mysteries
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330 years ago this guy hit the nail on the head. Look,
this is the Paradise according to Quran. What's that? A screenplay for a Tinto Brass' movie or a sacred book? Ibn Warraq callls it a "cosmic brothel". Following Pascal's central idea, we conclude: that clumsiness for the soft porn is not compatible with a supposed talent for refined and hermetic metaphysical poetry, considering that all is part of the same book.
Coming back to the main question (
to burn or not to burn), I've found this declaration in favour of freedom of expression:
Even I, who am not an American, I've been moved.