Hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad in the early hours of Thursday morning and set it on fire, a source familiar with the matter and a Reuters witness said, in a protest against the expected burning of a Koran in Sweden.

  • bossito@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    I know enough about the religious texts to know that’s a huge simplification. And while the old testament does have horrible things in it, the quran goes far beyond. This is something we should be able to discuss freely.

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      1 year ago

      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.