The BBC has been covering the story of the proposed Floridian Koran burning with footage of some middle-eastern folk burning an American flag. Could the BBC be inviting us to draw a parallel? Burning a national flag and burning a religious book are both calculated insults. Burning symbolic items is a common form of protest, in the USA, in the middle east, and around the world.
It strikes me that attaching meaning to the destruction of commonly available, factory-made products like books or flags is futile; these items are abused and destroyed, whether purposefully or not, all the time. I wonder whether all of the fuss was some kind of publicity stunt.
If we were doing it in a professionally humourous manner, that would be ok by Apple's standards.
- Catholic
- Witch
- Koran
- Bible
- Flag (with choice of countries)
- Political figure (with choice of party rosette and faces, if we can get photo clearance)
- Marshmallows
This work?
What have I missed?
It is strange then in that light that we do still commemorate the burning of real live Catholics ourselves. Clearly a calculated act to incite violence becomes a cuddly tradition some time between nine years and four hundred and five years after the original event.
Gareth