A Western military official with knowledge of the incident said it appeared that the Qurans and other Islamic readings in the library were being used to fuel extremism, and that detainees at Parwan Detention Facility, which adjoins Bagram, were writing on the documents to exchange extremist messages. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

The military official said that several hundred Islamic publications, including Qurans, were removed from the library. Some of the publications had extremist content; others had extremist messages written on their pages by detainees, the official said.

Quoted from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC)
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/us-apologizes-for-quran-1356820.html

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finds that burning is the last resort and if done the ashes should be buried, one link which seems to cover all the others I found:

http://www.inter-islam.org/Quran/disposingscripture.htm

Every religion and society has great respect for its Holy Scriptures no matter how old or new they may look. The Sikhs, Jews and Christians all have a certain respect for their Holy Scriptures but the respect and love the Muslims hold for their Holy Script is greatly different. The Last Revelation: The Holy Qur’an is not just an ordinary scripture, but rather it’s the Holy book that moulds an individuals life into an obedient servant of Allah.

Every single word and verse within it is sanctified and cannot be touched without ritual cleanliness. Our respect of the Holy Qur’an and the realisation of its sanctity decreases as society deteriorates, due to non-islamic influences and propaganda. Qur’ans and Islamic literature are left lying on the top shelves of our homes, unread for months or even years and gradually they start to become very dusty. They are classed as OLD though we rarely touched them until the time comes when they are removed. Without any realisation of their sanctity, like other unwanted items, we tend to discard them away which is totally incorrect. We must always remember, in Islam, when something is sanctified, then its sanctity will always remain.

Regarding disposing of unwanted religious and Islamic literature the great classical Hanafi Jurist Allamah Haskafi states:

“Those books that are no longer wanted: One should wipe away the names of Allah, his Angels and His Messengers and burn the rest. There is nothing wrong with casting them into a flowing river as they are (i.e without wiping the names away) or burying them and burning them (excluding the Qur’an, see below), is advised.

Thus, if one decides to get rid of religious literature, the right thing would be to bury them by wrapping them in something pure first, in a place where people would not walk very rarely. Similarly, it would be permitted to tie the books and papers with something heavy and cast them into a flowing river. You may also burn them, but in this case, only after erasing the names of Allah, his Angels and his Messengers (peace and blessings be upon them all).

As far the old and unusable Qur’ans are concerned, it is not permitted to burn them unless there is no other way to dispose them.

Allamah ibn Abidin, a great Hanafi Scholar states,

“If a copy of the Qur’an becomes old and it is difficult to read it, it should NOT be burnt in fire.”

This is also the view of Imam Mohammed (Student of Imam Abu Hanifah). It is best to bury them after wrapping them into something pure and clean.

The conclusion is, there are two methods of disposing an unusable Qur’an and Islamic literature:

(1) Wrapping them in a piece of cloth or something pure and burying them respectfully in a place where people normally do not walk upon.

(2) Fastening the items to something heavy such as a stone and placing it respectfully in flowing river.

If the above-mentioned two methods are not possible to implement, only then will it be permitted to burn the Holy Scriptures and then bury the resulting ash or drop the ash in a flowing river.

So the flowing water idea sounds good as one brother suggested above (I guess we can skip the bag if possible). But I am thinking burying might be the most practical solution since most people dont have access to rivers etc ...

Two words... I agree.

You can burn the bible if: there are too many, a copy is too old, maybe it was someone's personal copy (and they died), etc. I'm not aware of any edicts that this should not be done or is some sort of sin, as long as it is done respectfully.

At the same time, I suspect Muslim women can pay for birth control pills without damning their eternal souls to the burning pit of hell forever.

So you picks your poisons with religions ;)

...text does not qualify as a true Koran in this sense. I don't know enough to know whether my idle speculation has much merit, but I do know that I have been told by a number of folks that translations of the Koranic texts into languages other than Arabic do not qualify as "genuine" Korans.

You opinion is just that, an opinion. A deeply non-trivial part of the earth's population would disagree with you. Given that the dominant story of the coming century will be your country's decline from paramount hegemon to one among many, and a big part of the flip side of the coin will be their ascendency you might wish to reflect on whether your situational definition of fitness has much merit.

"In combat one should be very suspicious of painless moral choices. When you are confronted with a seemingly painless moral choice, the odds are that you haven't looked deeply enough." ~ Karl Marlantes

It is worth remembering that the Founding Fathers were all traitors.

To ensure religious nuts are marginalized and don't have access to kids.

You'd be required to bury it as well. Not many people I know set fire to their hard drives or USB sticks. I would imagine just tossing it in the garbage is a bad thing, however.

Do we need a "Pure" Recycle Bin for religious stuff

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