Danish government will introduce new law to ban burning the Quran(www.euronews.com)

it depends on the form of protest and yes burning the bible in public is hate speech and not a constructive criticism of christianity or the churches, were i’d be happy to join in as there is a lot to criticise. But that criticism can and should be voiced without burning bibles.

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Uncaged_Jay@lemmy.world

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1 year ago

Should criticism be able to be voiced without burning literature? Yes. Do I think climate activists should be able to be heard without disrupting people’s commutes by blocking traffic? Yes.

Unfortunately, sometimes activists are ignored without an unusual act of protest, and protests should not be considered hate speech unless they’re directly calling for violence towards a group. I don’t think burning a book falls under that category.

With all that being said, the government should not be responsible for deciding what a person can or cannot do unless they’re actively hurting another person.

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tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de

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1 year ago

Climate protests have a specific goal in changing policies and economic practicises.

Burning a Quran has no specific target. It targets muslims as a group entirely. And there is also no goal, no transformation, nothing better to strife for, in it. It is just hate of islam and muslim people. The only target could be to abolish the religion as a whole and ban people from practicising it. that is nothing but persecution. And you cannot argue that the people behind it would want anything less, as they are attacking the key symbol of that religion. Or as a methaphor, you don’t slap someone on the wrist by stabbing their heart.

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Uncaged_Jay@lemmy.world

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I would argue that their target are Muslim extremists, not just your average Muslim. Why can’t the two groups be differentiated?

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