Burning the Koran

The hedgehogs are all astounded. It occurs to them that if someone in Florida decides to burn copies of the Koran, then they are putting Christians all around the world at risk.  Especially, God bless them, the sort of Christians whose communities have survived for nearly 2 millennia under first Roman and then Muslim rule, keeping their heads down while enduring second-class status or outright persecution - and currently suffering from their worst anxieties for centuries..

Except there is very little risk, probably, in Hicksville, USA, where they are likely to be quite safe. Not least because the sort of people that might want to take revenge would stick out like a sore thumb in Hicksville.

The hedgehogs have come up with the theory that this makes the people of the Dove World Outreach Centre cowards as well as unwise in the extreme. And possibly other words that the hedgehogs wouldn't use, because they are a gentle and rational bunch, apart from in their treatment of slugs and beetles.

It makes me wonder. The hedgehog is a simple creature with a habit of walking round in circles under the influence of pesticides, or getting squashed on the bypass. So if they can see this isn't a great idea, why can't the Dove World Outreach Centre?

Needless to say, the doves are livid. If they had the money and human voices they'd take out a class action.