A Polish priest apologised for burning 'magic' Harry Potter books, after his actions sparked a wave of protest.
Warsaw - A Polish priest apologised Wednesday for burning "magic" Harry Potter books, after his actions sparked a wave of protest and comparisons with totalitarian regimes and the Inquisition.
On Wednesday Father Rafal Jaroszewicz, one of the three priests involved, posted on the same Facebook page that he was "very sorry"."However, it was not irreverent to any social group or religion, nor was it aimed at books as such or culture." Respected commentator Lukasz Turski described the "participation of children" in the burning as "particularly reprehensible".
"A hundred and some odd years later, in Nazi Germany, Heine and Mann's books and many other prominent artists were burning in piles in Berlin; a dozen or so years later, crematoria burned... the victims of the ideological madness of the supposedly civilised world."
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