Koran-burner shot dead in Sweden, 5 detained
Koran-burner shot dead in Sweden, 5 detained
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 haven't defaced any relgious texts in a while.
If someone burned my favorite book I bet I wouldn't kill them even once.
If someone burned my favorite book I’d have no opinion at all. There’s more printings out there and the only opinion I really care about is my own. (And partner, and cats I guesssss)
Sounds like it's time to institute international Bible, Qur'an, Torah burning day..
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.
I've seriously considered burning a handful of books, once. Because they were just such awfully written garbage money grab sequels (by another author) to a series I really like.
Then realised that my objection to book burning in general was stronger than my petulant desire to remove my copies of these books from existence.
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