According to this article from the Guardian, some Polish Catholic priests have carried out a book burning, which they documented and posted on Facebook. They claimed that the books that they torched, including a Harry Potter novel, promoted sorcery. More here and here from Newser.
Book burning has a long history, as this Smithsonian Magazine article documents.
Books carry forward ideas. Some people seem to think that if they burn the representations of ideas, they can stamp out the ideas themselves. Amazingly, the ideas just blaze back with even more power.
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