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Danish government will introduce new law to ban burning the Quran (www.euronews.com)
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[โ€“] -3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

yeah, clearly the compromise needs to be burning symbols of a group in public to stir hatred and violence against that group. That is totally the reasonable compromise. Clearly the people wanting the right to burn things in public are not fundamentalist, after all basically everyone burns a Quran, or Torah or Bible for breakfast amirite?

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Look at the real-world consequences of mocking Islam, of drawing prophet Muhamed, or burning the Qur'an.

    Compare them with the real-world consequences of mocking any other religion (or atheism), or burning their "sacred" books.

    Are they comparable? Who is then the oppressor, and who is the oppressed?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The US conservatives and Hillary Clinton were calling for war against Iran because the people there burnt US flags. Trump then bombed a person invited on a diplomatic talk with the US, which is one of the worst crimes against diplomacy imaginable.

    Or look at footbal fans hostile to each other, where symbols of the enemy team are burnt vice versa until it escalates to violence.

    Attacking symbols of groups in hate causes escalations all the time.

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  • [โ€“] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Or look at footbal fans hostile to each other, where symbols of the enemy team are burnt vice versa until it escalates to violence.

    Indeed, football fans are famously known for their acts of violence, such as flying airliners into skyscrapers, countless suicide bombings, etc. All in the name of football.

    I have no interest in Muslims being harmed in any way. They are literally my neighbors. At the same time, one must recognize that among them there are people with a a willingness to support and commit atrocities that is unparalleled today.

    People who deny this are blind to reality. All sides are not equal.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    and among us civilised western europeans there are many fascists murdering muslims or people assumed to be such or deemed as supporters of them. Anders Breivik murdered over 70 teenagers because of his ideology of fearing a muslim takeover of europe. When you measure muslims by their worst, then you need to measure yourself by people like Breivik too.

    I hope you see why that doesnt make sense in either case and is certainly no justification for allowing hate speech in the form of burning symbols of a group subject to discrimination.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 2 years ago

    When you measure muslims by their worst, then you need to measure yourself by people like Breivik too

    I'm a pacifist queer atheist progressive green-party voter Canadian with a POC family. What do I have in common with a Norwegian Christian authoritarian right-wing ethno-fascist murderer? The number of chromosomes? You won't see me supporting violence against anybody, but you won't see me supporting a religion that stones people like me either. Do you?

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