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  Might be disrespectful but unfortunately there is no such thing as the right to not get offended.
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  Sweden's prime minister has condemned as "Deeply disrespectful" the desecration of the Holy Quran in Stockholm, which has raised tensions with Turkey as the Nordic country courts Ankara over its Nato bid.
  Far-right politician Rasmus Paludan set fire to a copy of the Holy Quran on Saturday in front of Turkey's embassy in the Swedish capital.
  Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Sunday "No words are enough to adequately condemn the abhorrable act of desecration of the Holy Quran by a right-wing extremist in Sweden".
  
  
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  In that decision, it says people have the right to have their religious feelings protected. What the fuck? Europe gets a lot of things right, but their speech laws need adjusting. >
  
  Germany for interest doesn’t have freedom of speech at all. Say what you will of the US, they have NEVER banned a political party >
  
  German "Constitution" (Grundgesetz) Article 5:
  Article 5
  [Freedom of expression, arts and sciences]
  (1) Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing and pictures and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship.
  Germany has freedom of speech. >
  
  Exactly, but note they reference a banned political party, and there’s only one notable party banned in Germany… >
  
  There have been two parties that were banned in the 50s. One of them a Nazi party, the other a Stalinist one and both  financed by the Soviet Union. >
  
  Seems like 2 very reasonable exceptions >
  
  When a party begins to hinder the freedom of others it becomes an issue. Very important distinction. >
  
  Especially considering that if given the choice, both parties would have banned all others if they managed to gain power. >
  
  Or a flag for that matter. 
  The people have an obligation to recognize when they're being manipulated and not take the bait. >
  
  At least a country is a real thing >
  
  it's not though >
  
  Who’s funding your foodstamps >
  
  Just like a organized religion a central governening body given imaginary power by enough people. >
  
  If a government has the power to throw you in jail or kill you, it ain't imaginary power. >
  
  What’s been in large part the problem with many Muslims’ reactions over the last few years is the demeasurate nature of their anger over relatively trivial things. 
  Many Muslims seem to be expecting non Muslims to associate the same degree of sanctity to items and concepts they hold holy, but most of the civilized world really doesn’t care about that much (caricatures, one book… etc). Hence why you often hear the argument “well no one gets killed when someone does a bad joke about Jesus”. 
  Overall, it is really only those individual Muslims’  (which is most certainly not the whole Muslim population) problem and I find it quite ridiculous when society treats them like unruly children instead of expecting the same values that every other citizen has to demonstrate and live by. >
  
  China or Myanmar oppressing Muslim minorities, which is about as legitimate a case for defensive jihad as it gets? Crickets. 
  Blasphemy? Now that’s gonna start a riot. >
  
  Because the men directing the violence are cowards. They send out impressionable young boys to do their bidding. They don’t want a real war. Just hot button issues to use as justification for their ongoing power and need for zealots. >
  
  this is true  atleast in Pakistans war against India. no real moderate Pakistani wants to take over India. many of them are friends in western nations >
  
  Can confirm. My neighbours are Pakistani and my family is Indian. We live in harmony in Canada, look out for one another, share food, and celebrate each other's festivals/holy days. 
  Most people just want to co-exist and be happy. Extremists want to drive a wedge between people to gain power, but there's so much more to life than fear and hatred. >
  
  100 pct. from Canada as well >
  
  Blasphemy should never be punished. Don't ever side with those who wish their god would come before the rule of law. Sure this move wasn't classy, but a free society should not protect this book more than any other book. >
  
  Disrespectful? Maybe. Completely legal, yes >
  
  Also justified. Considering how these assholes are treating their hosts. >
  
  They’re obviously doing this to provoke the muslims but seriously who cares? It’s just a book it’s not like they burned all the Qurans in the worlds and muslims can’t use them anymore. The muslims community should just be mature and move on like nothing happaned >
  
  I thought about this trying to see it from the Muslim perspective and going into a rage still doesn't make sense.
  Uthman, one of the most righteous Caliphs one who knew Mohammad personally ordered Qurans to be burned en mass to settle a religious dispute. Qurans must be getting destroyed at a constant rate somewhere in the world due to neglect, accident or being recycled. One mass printed copy being burned in Norway is nothing.
  I'll defend anyone's right to burn a book in protest but Its a good sign the person hasn't got anything rational to say. >
  
  I’m a Muslim. The proper way to dispose of the Quran, or any text with God’s name, is to burn it and bury the waste. Aside from this, what I don’t understand is why even give these people the pleasure of your upset emotion, because that’s EXACTLY what they want. Just condemn it and move on. >
  
  Exactly. Rage bait, and it sets back everyone of the faith in that country if they take it.
  If one side burns a book to piss people off, and the other side starts lashing out over it, both sides are dipshits that we shouldn't give attention to. One side has something to gain though, and the other something to lose, so it's on the members of the faith to try and be the better people in this instance >
  
  Rage bait is the right weird to use for it. Gonna remember that. >
  
  It feels like that's all politicians do these days. Use rage bait to divide people. >
  
  Muslim just seem so petty and entitled when they act this way. >
  
  I feel like shit like this is bound to happen when there's been such massive immigrations into European countries lately. I'm not saying it's right but when two people groups with massively different cultures and values end up living along side each other in such a short amount of time shit like this is always gonna happen eventually. Been the same all throughout history if not worse. >
  
  Typically the governments of the places bringing the people in would defend their countries values and morals, though. >
  
  In Europe publicly holding your own culture or values as being important gets you thrown in the same camp as neonazis. They made their bed and are now shocked at all the right of center and full right leaning parties gaining more and more traction every year. 
  Their leaders don’t value or fear to express value for their culture, values, and history, but the public still do apparently. Eastern Europe is just telling the migrants to fuck off, Italy has a new right wing PM, Poland already went that way, Marine Le Penn wins more of the vote every election, >
  
  I think it's deeply embarrassing when western leaders condemn the burning of the Koran as an act of protest.
  People are allowed to say what they want.  If the Muslims want to get upset about it, they are just showing that the people who burned the Koran in protest were right. >
  
  Except the people who burn these Korans are not doing it as some brave act from free speech. They’re doing for no reason other than to piss people off and stir shit up. These aren’t brave defenders of freedom of speech, these are professional shit-disturbers who contribute nothing to society. 
  I guarantee people like Rasmus Paludan don’t care one bit about children or terrorism or anything, they’re just trying to get people to hate Muslims. >
  
  
  I guarantee people like Rasmus Paludan don’t care one bit about children or terrorism or anything, they’re just trying to get people to hate Muslims.
  
  The best thing the Muslims can do to get him to stop is to ignore him.  
  As long as he gets any attention for doing this, he will keep doing it. >
  
  Rather than capitulate to religious whining, do it again and toss a bible or Torah in for effect.
  "We don't give a shit" has always been the best response. >
  
  As long as anyone exists who would inflict violence for the burning of a book, that book must continue to be burned. >
  
  Our new PM is bending over to Erdogan so hard it's embarrassing. >
  
  I condemn the Swedish Prime Minister for treating sensibilities as more important than secularism and basic right of self-expression >
  
  You don't know anything about Rasmus Paludan if you think this was about secularism and self-expression. >
  
  It doesn't matter at all what the motivations were or who did it. Do you lose your right to free expression because you have awful motivations and awful ideas? >
  
  What are you even complaining about!? He was allowed to do his stupid stunt. Nobody attacked him, nobody stopped him, there has been no violence in response, he didn't "lose his right to free expression", so what are you even upset about? That people say it's disrespectful? That they don't think he should be doing that?
  It's so gross that Muslims are the collective target of scorn here, despite doing nothing wrong, but the exterminationist, ethno-nationalist beliefs of a literal pedophile are neutral, and irrelevant, and can't be counted against him. >
  
  The whole reason the Swedish PM made the statement he did was because they need Turkey, which is Muslim, to let them into NATO. That's the disgusting bit, having to bend to religious zeal to be part of NATO >
  
  It’s weird how fragile religious people are. Is their faith so insecure that they can’t handle the burning of some pages of paper bound together? Yes, burning a book in protest will inflame tensions and is a stupid way to prove a point. But it’s just a book. Print another one and stop acting like entitled brats. Amazing that these believers can’t understand that most other people don’t want their particular brand of religion infiltrating their public life. Freedom FROM religion and keeping religion out of the public sphere, out of government, is more important than tolerating the authoritarian misogynistic beliefs of oppressive religions. People should practice their religion in private and stop getting offended at every perceived slight against whichever make-believe daddy-in-the-sky they believe in.
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  It's more than that imo. A combination of peer pressure, profiling urge and a culture centered on face and honor. In sociology there is a concept of "expected expectations", meaning anticipation of what you think others expect of you.
  Even if a person may not be offended themselves initially, they may still react with violence to raise their social standing within the in-group of muslim minorities, they may feel expectations from their ingroup to participate and react with fury and follow up on those expectations and so it keeps rolling.
  It's not too dissimilar from gang wars and their violent responses to being disrespected. You find it in more (sub)cultures that are all about face and respect. >
  
  Well then at that point they are basically just gangs imo >
  
  Yawn 🥱 >
  
  Weak. They should have burned another instead of bending over like that. You can burn 10000 bibles and there will be no issue. Yeah some religious people will get mad, but big deal.
  Islam is an ancient religion that hasn't adapted to the times at all. It's a religion of intolerance and hatred.
  Edit: And before someone comes in to disagree and say I'm "islamophobic", I have Muslim friends who live in the Saudi Arabia, and they will casually talk about how it's okay to execute gay people. The religion has bricked their morals. >
  
  Technically Islam is much less ancient than other religions, no? >
  
  It was created as av war religion agaisnt southern europe, and nothing has changed. >
  
  Yes, let's worry about paper burning as humans burn. >
  
  Disrespect is the point. I have no obligation at all to respect your bullshit book and religion. >
  
  There is absolutely no need to just provoke people by burning thr Quran.
  At the same time people need to grow up because its just a book. >
  
  That’s the fundamental disagreement. To us, burning it is a jerk move, but fundamentally the same as burning any other religious book, about equal to burning a Harry Potter book. To them, it’s magic sky zaddy’s special book, and a whirlwind of shit should befall whoever disrespects it. >
  
  Sure, but their point is that you knew how we felt about the book when you burnt it.  So how can even the most reasonable of reactions be anything short of resentment? >
  
  Hence why it’s jerk behavior for anyone to burn a religious text. You’re clearly trying to provoke a negative response. Do people have the right to burn religious books though?
  I can safely say that, edgy as I am, I would never be part of such a stunt though >
  
  I am an atheist so they mean nothing to me, but I'm also pretty communitarian in my social expectations. I would say things that can serve no purpose other than agitate some other part of the community should not be allowed in society. Should we put people in jail for burning a book? of course not.  But we should at least try to shame it.  
  I accept the fact that a modern conception of "free speech" includes the right to burn any book in most western countries. So in that sense they do currently have the right to burn whatever book they want. I'm just saying it's not clear that should be the case or that's the best approach.  Even if we aren't going to rethink that approach though, i am not sure it's good to be hung up on people's "right to burn a book" every time this happens. They clearly have the right; people pull this stunt a few times a year and no government in the places where free speech is a thing has stopped them. >
  
  I don't think it's worth shaming. You're giving power to a mass delusional fantasy murder cult. I'm not allowed to call for the murder of fascists in America burning lgbt books, why does any holy fantasy book get more rights? >
  
  I'm not defending people's belief in the book, I'm speaking out against intentionally agitating those people. Those two things are very different.  There is a difference between provoking thought and provoking anger. >
  
  Ok but if I tell you I'll be mad if you do some random stupid thing. Should you be shamed for making me angry? It's silly, nothing wrong has been done beyond some people needing a stronger psychology. >
  
  I'd say, it's really pointless to have these conversations at a 60,000 foot level divorced from the facts on the ground. But I'll indulge for a moment. Generally speaking yes, doing something you know is going to make someone angry for no reason other than to test if they'll actually get angry is seen as a stupid thing to do in society in almost any situation i can think of. >
  
  It's more pointless to lose context and keep talking.
  If I've spent 2000 years telling you the same stupid factually incorrect things based on this old book. Then you burn said book, now we're at a conversation. >
  
  religion is cancer to the brain.
  when religion does not bring you peace of mind but just more worries in life, your religion has failed. >
  
  It's more of a cancer to societies as a whole. I've definitely seen religion do wonders for people on an individual level. On societal levels they have done so much bad >
  
  
  I've definitely seen religion do wonders for people
  
  Do you have any such examples? >
  
  I've met people that were hopeless, spiraling out of control I.e serious drug addictions find religion and then really turn their life around. Or people that struggle with finding friends or a place of belonging finding their sense of community through church.
  Not for me, personally, but it did certainly help both individuals. 
  Now, do I think there are better ways both could have achieved those? Absolutely! However, I did want to note that in individual cases it can be good for people.
  It can also make people hateful bigots though too so I'm not a staunch defender. >
  
  
  Protesters demonstrate in front of the Consulate General of Sweden after Rasmus Paludan, leader of Danish far-right political party Hard Line and who also has Swedish citizenship burned a copy of the Koran near the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm, in Istanbul, Turkey, on January 21.
  
  This guy must spend his weekends burning books. Everytime I hear of him it's always for the same reason lmao. >
  
  It was absolutely disrespectful. Part of living in a free society is putting up with things that are completely disrespectful and offensive, while at the same time those who put up such demonstrations should be prepared when people exercise their own free speech in response >
  
  Yeah as long as it's speech and not violence, I think there has been a tendency for the reaction to involve violence though... >
  
  Should you allow white nationalists to wear white hoods and burn crosses? It’s just a cross after all, it’s not violence… >
  
  It is allowed here. They have just as much freedom to do this as someone burning the quran and they need to go through the same systems to be allowed to do it. >
  
  not true >
  
  Do we really care if someone’s holy book is desecrated? Why should I give a shit about YOUR sacred concepts. I have no sacred concepts and expect nothing from you in this regard.
  Jesus is an asshole.
  There. Do I like, owe Christians something now? Do YOUR beliefs obligate ME? Can your beliefs run my life? Do I need to check in with all religions before I do anything? >
  
  Ass kissing the islamists is a bad idea. Look how apeshit they get over some book. >
  
  A bit more disrespect of stupid old ideas would do our species a lot of good >
  
  The burning of a holy book by a mentally ill man who has done the same thing repeatedly, but this is one of the first times it made international news. >
  
  It is deeply disrespectful. I imagine that was the point.
  And in a free society, you're supposed to be allowed to be disrespectful. >
  
  sweden is so desperate to join nato yikes... a guy buy a book and burn it now become disrespectful? Alright i will make my own religion i worship the god of trees if I find any mdfker burning my gods he is gonna be in big trouble >
  
  It's even worse, they are killing your gods, then cutting them into little pieces to write the words of their gods on and then worship and idolize these little pieces of trees as if they are their own gods.
   I can't think of anything that's more deeply offensive and disrespectul. >
  
  Sounds like some weak gods that can be killed like that >
  
  So many people making up stuff without knowing anything about the topic in here, jeez.. >
  
  some of the comments here too are downright horrible, saying nonsense like other countries should do things like china is doing with the uyghurs. >
  
  Grown man and woman are supposed to be able to take it when they are disrespected. You take a deep breath, suck it up and continue with your daily routine, just as the rest of us, without turning to violence and intimidation. 
  You are insulted, so what! Get over it. >
  
  I fully agree with that but from my experience, there are a lot of people who see insults as a genuine justification for physical violence.
  They won't even try to stay calm. >
  
  If you haven’t yet read the Quran it’s a very short book full of garbled Bible stories repeating events in the Bible that never occurred as if they were fact (eg. Exodus).  Mohammed and Paul have lots n common with Joseph Smith.
  It’s biblical fan fiction.  Overall it’s crap and needs severe penalties or everyone will recognize it’s crap.
  For a real oddity, try reading the Book of Mormon, a Bible prequel.  Or just listen to the podcast naked Mormonism. >
  
  Islam is a disease for how much violence, bigotry, and blasphemy it causes on daily basis >
  
  And these Muslims are being respectful to us though? It’s pretty clear this “disrespect” is a reaction to their disrespect.
  And why do Muslims groups always point up when they are angry? >
  
  In the Christian sect of the Abramic trilogy, idolatry is forbidden, including statues, likenesses, etc. It's wrong to idolize a book, a material thing that can be destroyed, rather than profess the ideas contained within. Just a book, made available by Gutenberg at first. Paper and ink, leather cover. 
  Now, Christians have to bow to Islam's fanatical idolization of a book because they'd be shooting themselves in the Abramic foot if they condemned Islamic devotion to the book. Three peas in a pod, they are.
  There has never been an idea destroyed at a book burning. >
  
  tfw you support the right wing politician because the left wing position is somehow even crazier and more dangerous >
  
  Religion is poison >
  
  Roe v. Wade >
  
  its a stupid book, jeez…. >
  
  No religion deserves respect. Its all a fairytale. >
  
  came here to say basically that. even fairy tales deserve more respect than religion. I don't think anyone has been tortured or beheaded because of Aesops Fables >
  
  all religions should be mocked and ridiculed equally. >
  
  Sweden is trying to join NATO. Turkey has not agreed to this, so the issue is undecided.    
  Putin doesn't want NATO expanded.    
  Conjecture: Putin pays Paludan to burn a Koran. Turkey hardens its opposition. >
  
  Of course the Swedish Prime Minister is more concerned about dissing Islam than they are about Muslims fucking up Sweden.
  They absolutely lie about 'no go zones'.
  As for deeply disrespectful, sounds like that was the intent. >
  
  For anyone wondering why it is that Muslims get so upset over the Quran being desecrated, my best attempt at an explanation below:
  For what it’s worth: I enjoy reading and learning about history and ancient history, in my spare time, and have for the last 2-3 years, or so…..
  About a year ago, I finally began diving into  Islamic history/Early Islamic History, after first learning about Pre-Islamic Arabia/Arab Culture, via my obsession with Late Antiquity(I have a thjng for the transitional periods of history… for whatever it’s worth, lol)…
  Anyway, after a lifetime of….. well, feeling exactly the same as you do, I finally learned the reason Muslims blow such a fuse over any sort of Quran desecrations, be it: burning, vandalizing, etc…..
  Like Christianity, Islam has definitely gone through its share of growing pains, when it was constructing an identity… As a matter of fact, of all the denominations of Christianity, I feel like Islam and Orthodox Christianity, have the most in common… ESPECIALLY, when it comes to iconoclasm…..
  LITERALLY, since before Mohammed and his modest band of followers were run out of Mecca, one of the EARLIEST facets of Islamic identity, took form, due to the fact that the pagan Arabs, were particularly idolatrous(besides being cruel and extremely selfish… 
  ) 
  Thus, their heavy handed idolatry, in essence, came to be seen as the very personification of EVERYTHING that was wrong with their society…. And, to be fair: they were absolutely much better off as Muslims, than they were as pagans, in my opinion, anyway(an opinion I don’t necessarily hold, in regards to Pagan Western Europe vs Christian Europe, again, for whatever it’s worth)….
  So, unlike, say, Eastern Orthodox, where, Iconoclasm was a phase of development, that left a moderate impression upon the faith, as a whole, in regards to Islam: Iconoclasm was its siren song, from Day ONE. 
  In their eyes, EVERYTHING a Muslim needs in life, is ALL contained within their Quran, and in a religion that is so void of iconography…… even down to their own Prophet and spiritual leader stating on his own deathbed, that they need not mourn his passing, nor worship him, as he was merely a messenger of God….
  Thus, the ONLY thing he wished remembered about him, was that VERY transcript….. containing the word of God, that he wrote down(actually, he was illiterate, so rather, that he memorized, word for word, at which point, he had a friend gradually write it all down🤷‍♂️), to share with the world. 
  As, even in his VERY LAST WORDS, he was pretty clear about the fact that the Quran(in my own words/paraphrasing) was, essentially…. Islam. It was to represented EVERYTHING to them. 
  In other words: to a Muslim, the Quran is Jesus, The Holy Spirit, the Crucifix, The Crown of Thorns, holy communion, Holy Water, The Apostles, The Saints, The Pope, the fish drawn in the sand, the Chi-Rho, the shroud of Turin, this and that saints morbid old bones, comb, and pilfered toiletries(lol), etc etc etc…..
  Basically, that holy book, because it contains the word of god, and NOTHING BUT the word of god, it should be treated in the same way that, say, a Catholic would treat something they thought displayed a holy stigmata, or a shard of The True Cross, a Thorn from the Crown, etc…….
  Or, for the more secular people reading:
  Imagine if you owned prop plaque used during filming of Jedi Temple scenes, in Revenge of The Sith, with The Jedi Code written in aurabesh, on it, in, autographed by Hayden Christiansen, Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Frank Oz, Sam L, and Christopher Lee, or a replica Mjolnir, signed by Chris Hemsworth….. it’s like all of that shit combined, and then some…..
  To them, the Quran is PROFOUNDLY sacred, in a way that someone with a Latin Christian background like myself, might not fully understand, right away, but in a way that makes a lot more sense, and seems a lot less irrational, once one actually learns the how’s and the whys of it all. 
  To anyone who made it this far: please don’t take this as being chastised, or being preached to, as neither was my intention…. 
  I realize many of us, simply don’t understand whenever we see such outrage over the Quran being mistreated, and I only meant to try and clarify things a bit, from my own, relatively recent point of understanding… that’s all….
  Godspeed >
  
  
  Imagine if you owned prop plaque used during filming of Jedi Temple scenes, in Revenge of The Sith, with The Jedi Code written in aurabesh, on it, in, autographed by Hayden Christiansen, Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Frank Oz, Sam L, and Christopher Lee, or a replica Mjolnir, signed by Chris Hemsworth….. it’s like all of that shit combined, and then some…..
  
  This is a poor comparison as this is something unique, rare and priceless. Qu'ran's are a dime a dozen. 
  Also I'm not going to behead someone if they destroyed my rare memorabilia. Wtf? >
  
  The state department is right in what the law says, but there is a very strong freedom of speech protection in Sweden which trumps hate speech laws in most cases. It is very rare for people to get convicted for it, and in this case Paludan had gotten permission from the police to perform the book burning and was assigned a place to do so beforehand.
  The only cases with convictions I can think of is nazis using the swastica, a pastor who said a whole lot of bad things about gays, and a teenager who printed a nazi joke on his car. >
  
  Oh lordy
  "The Swedish government hates Islam,  that's why they convicted people for being against the Jews but not burning the Koran" >
  
  That's one way of looking at it.
  Another way is to look at it from the context of post-ww2 europe. Millions of jews were murdered and we promised ourselves to never again repeat the same mistake. That is why those laws exist, not to protect the religion itself but its followers. >
  
  What about the ejection of Palestinians for the forming of Israel.  Why should a group of people only receive protection after a event >
  
  What's the point of Sweden joining NATO if they aren't even willing to defend the simplest freedom. They might as well join the other side. 
  In the end, this isn't about blasphemy, it's about Muslim activists flexing their might and seeing how much they can demand from Western democracies with threats of violence. People demanding respect for the quran are literally agreeing with terrorists' demands. I don't see them asking people to show respect for Jesus, or stop saying jokes about pedo priest and slutty nuns. Do you also think they are going to ask for the musical Book of Mormon to be cancelled? Or that we should stop making fun of Tom Cruise's beliefs? 
  Weak people like the swedes believe muslims have a legitimate case for censorship because they are screaming (and threatening) the loudest. It reminds me of that pathetic attempt to show rainbow flags during the Qatar worldcup, in the end the west capitulated, again, because it was also seen as "disrespectful". 
  Our Western values are just for show, and they're thrown under the bus whenever economic or military need arise. Sweden the progressive is a perfect example of it. >
  
  People need to get the idea out of their that respecting someone's religion = practicing their religion.
  A shia Muslim depicting Mohammed is not them disrespecting sunni Muslims, just like working on the Sabbath isn't disrespecting Judaism. What would be disrespectful is punishing or harassing somebody for not practising your religious customs, or believing in the same superstitions. >
  
  "By burning a book, they're trying to burn the idea behind it.
  The next step is the people who believe in that idea."
  This was posted on a thread that depicted the far right in the US burning books, and it had over 300 upvotes. Funny how Reddits tune changes when it involves Muslims. >
  
  There’s a difference between burning books to limit knowledge vs burning a book as an act of protest. Two very different scenarios. >
  
  So did the right wing politician who did this have a particular reason for doing it or is he just antagonising Turkey in a hope that they veto Swedens attempt to join NATO? >
  
  Europe is a walking shell of itself and progressivism is what hollowed it out. >
  
  If anyone actually read Quran themselves, they would burn it too. The hate it promotes is unreal >
  
  Islam should be banned like nazism or fascism , barbaric primitive ideology. >
  
  At the end of the day islam is still a religion and Muslims have the freedom of religion. It’s not like nazism at all. Christianity was like this hundreds of years ago. 
  However, as someone who has read the Quran, Mohammed, who Muslim say is the perfect human being, was a perverted child rapist and had a harem of sex slaves. And saying should be 100% legal and acceptable no matter how disrespectful it is. >
  
  If its a popular idea doesn’t make it a good one , and this Iron Age philosophy not only bad it’s harmful in every aspect of society!
  Ps: i use to be a Muslim just 6 months ago . >
  
  This should be a national day in Sweden. Burning Quran day. As a teibute to all victims of bigoted insecure murderers. >
  
  Who cares. Only thing he’s mad about is he wasn’t there to throw in a couple himself >
  
  If this was done to a bible there would be silence. Why is there constant western vocal support for this intolerant religion? >
  
  Monotheism was a huge mistake. >
  
  People are angry their nations have been overrun by dangerous migrants