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.

  • @[email protected]
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    -81 year ago

    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.

    • @bossitoOP
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      81 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        -11 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      How does person A burning a book influence person B’s freedom to exercise a religion exactly? Your religion binds you, not everybody else.

      Every single religious person in the world needs to come to terms with the fact that the majority of other people in the world does not believe their religion to be true and does not believe their holy book to be holy. That’s part of living in a connected world.