When I read other blogs, I see a lot of scoffing at the importance of desecrations of the Quran. It's a religious document, after all, and we as a nation explicitly reject reverence towards any religious document. There's the occasional reference to Piss Christ or the like, but, in reality, the posters openly say that they just don't get it.
Bizarrely, I felt the same way. Yes, intellectually, I understand the symbolism of the Quran in particular: in a religion which at least nominally forbids any human or animal imagery (in order to prevent idolatry), the text of the Quran itself has beome a sacred thing. As a religious person, I should have been outraged. I wasn't.
Today, I think I figured out why.
