Omar Khayyam is not available around here to burn in the first place. Thank you for pointing out the dangers of heretical writings and especially poetry from the -stan regions such as In
stanbul. Where people think that going 'round in circles until dizzy counts as inspiration when they could get the same effect by tazing themselves in the neck. Where declaiming this as art results in people watching it thinking they're being entertained. Where traditions are considered valid just because they're ancient. And once it's valid, postmodernist literarians get the urge for reinterpretation. The literature leads to the activity but what Christian would carry on like this?
The similarities are obvious, the angle of the head for instance, but there are differences too. Interpretations, they say. One way to pre-empt all this nonsense would be introducing a Municipal Regulation limiting the written word to a single alphabet. All this imported stuff accepted for the sake of "tradition" or "authenticity" grinds everyone back to the stone-age where it originated whether we want it or not.
Jesus came to set us free.