BURNING IS NOT A MUSLIM THING...

Europe and the church of whatever were always on the look out for so called witchcraft and it's practitioners. The old, strange and those deemed a ta ugly or anyone not as pure as a priest, was fair game for the fiery stake treatment...and the burning of the innocent - mostly women - went on for centuries. The west has a very short memory. During WW2 as the Nazis swept eastwards, it was costing the Third Reich far too much in bullets and time; so they and their all too eager henchmen would herd mostly Jewish, men, women and children into the largest wooden building in each village they came into, an set the building ablaze. As the media and politicians reach for their dictionary to outdo each other in outrage at Islamic State's latest atrocity, we in the west are still well ahead on points.