As we told on another occasion, there are books that you thought would never be written, but Caliph Omar came to justify the incineration of books.
After the death of Mohammed, the period of the Perfect Caliphs begins (so called because they were relatives or close friends of the prophet). These first caliphs were four (Abu-Bakr, Omar, Otman and Ali) . The second of them, Omar , conquers and Islamizes Syria, Persia, Palestine, Egypt…
In the year 644 Alexandria is taken , where the great Library of the Ptolemies is located composed of thousands of legendary papyri. Before that treasure and what to do, Omar, with an «crushing logic «, he blurted out:
There is only one true book:the Koran. If the books in that library contain things contrary to the Koran, they are impious and must be burned; and if they say the same thing as the Koran, they are superfluous and must be burned too.
According to the chronicles, these books served to keep the boilers of the public baths lit for six months.
So, beware of logic or, rather, the use of logic to justify our facts.