Burning of the books
The Crucible
Tuesday, May 1, 2001
Public book burning rituals featured recently in Jakarta and Bandung. Why would anybody want to return to the Dark Ages?
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The flames slowly licked the pages of Karl Marx's Thoughts by Franz Magnis-Suseno. At the Islamic Youth Movement (GPI) headquarters in Menteng, Jakarta, a man walked to the front of the stage and delivered a speech. At the same time, three others were tearing apart a book bearing German philosopher Karl Marx's image on its white cover. Page by page the contents fueled the bonfire prepared some time earlier.
The April 19 burning of Magnis' book was
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