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Bro your point doesn’t make sense.

Praying in public is a threat to nobody.

Burning holy books or symbols of ethnic or religious minorities is a potential attempt to cultivate hate among the masses.

Just look at this comment section, people here pretend that this burning is a proof of every Islamophobic talking point that they have ever read about in some schizo Youtube comments.

Free speech stops when it has the potential to severly restrict the freedom of other people’s lifes imo. This applies more or less to pretty much every Western country.

One could argue whether or not this is the case here, but having the police escort and protect the madmen while they burn the Quran, is just beyond free speech under any definition.

That’s crazy

We Middle Easterners can be way more racist and nationalistic than some drunk skinhead losers in Europe. That guy seems to be the type that browses r/AskMiddleEast or r/exmuslim. Maybe some guy from a broken family, daddy issues or whatever, I am not his psychotherapist lol. Fact is tho, that Nazis use this story as validation and that his supporters are mostly fascists as well.

These Iraqis are not Swedish citizens. The book burning is happening in Sweden. I don’t agree with the violent response by these hooligans in Iraq and they should be held responsible. There is no rule of law in Iraq, so no idea how Iraqi authorities will respond.

But the book burning should not have happened in the first place, not because of the reaction in Iraq, but because it is not something a civilised society should condone.

I will not comment on this any further. These are my thoughts on this topic.

Is praying publicly the same for you as burning the Quran? I don’t see the similarity.

Arguing which religious scripture is worse is a useless excercise imo.

I don’t argue against criticism of the Quran. Even in Iraq, there are many people, that publicly do this.

Burning the Quran is not a critique and is not an invitation of a civil discussion. It is a declaration of extreme hate. Assuming anything different is just being overly charitable to a bunch of literal neo-Nazis.

Swedish law guarantees freedom of religion. You can criticise the Quran, you can hate it, you can promote alternative humanist interpretations of the Quran, but the Quran itself will always be the symbolic representation of Muslims. This is simply reality.

Every ancient religious text has passages that did not age well, that is still not a reason to spread hate tho.

I’m not saying that this demonstration should be banned, because people in Iraq got aggressive.

I’m saying that this demonstration should be banned, because this demonstration goes against modern Swedish values and laws. Being openly hostile towards certain religious minorities and ethnicities is not something Swedish authorities should protect.

Burning a Quran is a message of hate towards Muslims, that’s simply it.

Muslims in Sweden probably don’t love this move either.

Should Swedes also support demonstrations, where Muslim Swedes burn Bibles, Torahs, LGBTIQ+ flags etc, as long as they cite “freedom of speech” and or wanting to do a “social experiment” as their primary motivation?

That’s how I see it as well.