islamic authority, it belongs to muslims. simple.
You do realize that "islamic authority" is absolutely meaningless to non-muslims, right?
no, if i were to BUY a movie and make copies of it i would get punished right?
Likewise if someone made copies of a copyrighted book. However the koran is public domain. Still not sure what this has to do with someone burning copies of something they personally own.
government property? says who? if i work for it it's my property, the government cannot in any way take it from me, if you can't take something from me then it doesn't belong to you, doesn't matter what i do with it.
That's the claim, but I agree that it's nonsense. If anything, by destroying their own money people would be helping to reduce inflation by taking a bit of currency out of circulation (I think.. it's late and economics aren't my strong suit).
same thing with the quran.
If you can claim that all copies of the koran magically belong to you, I can claim 50% of your earnings magically belong to me. Of course, neither claim would be recognized by any legal system in the real world.
no thats not what i'm saying. i'm saying that if muslims burn US flags and US citizens rose against it, their rise would be justifiable, same thing goes with muslims when non-muslims burn the quran. make sense?
Of course it's understandable that people would be offended and upset if something they revered and held sacred was disrespected and desecrated, but that's just the way it goes. Feelings get hurt, egos get bruised, but to resort to censorship just to spare the oversensitive and insecure is just silly.