An anti-Islam activist who burned the Koran at several protests, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead in Sweden, a day before a court was to rule on his case.
I like that you are inclusive of all Abrahamic religions, but could we just agree to not burn any books at all? It’s just a stupid act of violence and I don’t know what good it has ever achieved throughout history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_burning
If you look at my other comment, I’m not interested in destroying information, or preventing people from reading it. It’s specifically doing something that other people think they have the right to stop me from doing. And as such it serves to highlight those who are hiding the fact that they have a fascist mindset towards me and others.
To make this clearer, maybe the day after “burn a Qur’an day” should be “read the Qur’an day”.
I get your point and while we don’t know anything yet about the murder it’s likely linked to the guy‘s actions.
Let’s just go ahead and assume the people arrested killed him for real and they killed him for what he did. Then I think there really are no heroes in that story.
The guy was inciting hatred for which there was even a trial and it was a pointless act in the sense that I don’t see what good could potentially come from it.
Did he deserve to die for that? I’m against the capital punishment, so I think no one deserves to die for anything and I agree that the killers are fascists.
I’m just saying that burning books and executing people isn’t the kind of world I want to live in in general.
I like that you are inclusive of all Abrahamic religions, but could we just agree to not burn any books at all? It’s just a stupid act of violence and I don’t know what good it has ever achieved throughout history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_burning
The act is political speech nowhere near violence and must be protected. Same with flag burning.
It was considered inciting hatred in Sweden and he was being tried for it.
Principles are still the same.
If you look at my other comment, I’m not interested in destroying information, or preventing people from reading it. It’s specifically doing something that other people think they have the right to stop me from doing. And as such it serves to highlight those who are hiding the fact that they have a fascist mindset towards me and others.
To make this clearer, maybe the day after “burn a Qur’an day” should be “read the Qur’an day”.
I wouldn’t see any contradiction in that
I get your point and while we don’t know anything yet about the murder it’s likely linked to the guy‘s actions.
Let’s just go ahead and assume the people arrested killed him for real and they killed him for what he did. Then I think there really are no heroes in that story.
The guy was inciting hatred for which there was even a trial and it was a pointless act in the sense that I don’t see what good could potentially come from it.
Did he deserve to die for that? I’m against the capital punishment, so I think no one deserves to die for anything and I agree that the killers are fascists.
I’m just saying that burning books and executing people isn’t the kind of world I want to live in in general.