Is your school a disappointment? Count your blessings.

SRINAGAR, India July 5, 2004 – Kashmir's oldest school was burned down Monday, destroying one of the world's oldest copies of the Quran and thousands of other rare Islamic texts, in a suspected arson attack that some blamed on Islamic militants targeting moderate Muslim leaders.

The destruction shocked many in the disputed Himalayan territory, with the loss of the 105-year-old Islamia Higher Secondary School where some of the region's most prominent figures studied and of its 30,000-book library.

The top two stories when I did this post both concerned people setting fire to schools. By comparison, this school in New Zealand got off lightly.

Posted by Brian Micklethwait at 10:58 PM
Category: Violence
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