They want to burn a Qur’an right outside Stockholm’s main Mosque. How is that not incitement to violence or racial hatred?
If I burned a copy of the Torah outside a Synagogue, would that just be an expression of ‘free speech’? Or would I not be giving a pretty unambiguous signal of both what I think of the people inside and the way that we should treat them?
This absolutely should not have been allowed to go ahead. It is incitement to violence and racial hatred.
How is it an incitement of violence and how is burning a religious text book racial hatred? It’s much more akin to how burning a US flag isn’t an incitement for violence against its citizen but rather an expression against the country itself or its ideals, or merely to express the freedom itself.
In addition to all the good stuff the other guys says: BOOK BURNING HAS CONTEXT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings?wprov=sfla1
It’s a single book, presumably purchased and owned by the person burning it. This is far out of context of cultural genocide.
Good stuff. Don’t let the crazies mess with you. We should be free to express ourselves as any other country
I don’t understand your comment. We are all in agreement that book burning of any form is crazy right? Do you mean to say that freedom of religion should be a right in Sweden as it should be for any country?
I meant that Muslim people would be angry at this but the thing is we have freedom to express so just like people can make fun of Christianity, we should be able to criticize and be able to burn Quran as well bible as well. Let’s not enable these people to get angry and make death threat (see Charlie hebdo)
Does that right extend to burning a copy of the Torah outside of a Synagogue?
Yes to every religion
Even when it both makes Jewish people unsafe and encourages an atmosphere of racism, which only ever results in one thing?
If they’re is no law against “making people unsafe, by provoking a 3rd party” then yes. If they’re is a law against that, actions like these would be stopped. There doesn’t seem to be one though. Any Swede here?
In Germany something vaguely like this would probably count as “Volksverhetzung”, but IANL so I’m not sure that would even remotely fit.
