Up to 78,000 books, including "irreplaceable ancient Muslim and Christian texts and manuscripts," were torched in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, Jessica Elgot of the Huffington Post reported Sunday.
Elgot said that the Al-Saeh library in the Serali neighborhood was set on fire "after a local gang took objection to a sheet apparently insulting to the Prophet Mohammed, found hidden in the pages of one of the library books."