Two weeks after Quran burning in front of Stockholm mosque, police grant permission to a local activist to burn a copy of Hebrew Bible; Israeli officials sharply condemn ‘blatant incitement’

  • @[email protected]
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    371 year ago
    1. Burning religious texts just to get a rise out of people is cringe

    2. People have a right to display their cringe

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Precisely. Anything book burning hurts me to the soul. (Hence Fahrenheit 451 being my favorite book)

    • Phanatik
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      71 year ago

      Yeah, I remember when Lord of the Rings was used to justify mass incarceration of Orcs based on their association with the Dark Lord.

  • s0berage
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    1 year ago

    It’s a book. Burning it has no forbearance on the religion existing or people’s right to practice it. This is Sweden showing the hypocrisy of Islam. Fair play to them. If they were outraged about burning the Quran, they should be outraged about burning the bible. These outraged muslim immigrants to Sweden shouldn’t be moving to the western world if they behave and react this way. It is, however, an asshole move to intentionally disrespect a ethnicity or religion. Ultra cringe.

  • Spzi
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    101 year ago

    What’s not okay: To expect others to submit to rules of your worldview. Especially if others do not share this view or agree to the rule.

    You have the right to believe whatever you like, but don’t expect me to follow. Because I have the same right.

    This applies to acts which do not harm anybody or anything, like destroying a copy of a book which you own, without eradicating the book from existence or taking it from others.

    Otherwise, we play the victim game. I can do that too! Look, I’m an atheist. This is a very serious thing for me. I feel appalled by the idea that more than 200 years after the enlightenment (just to name one of many reasons), people still believe and share religious ideas. The abrahamic scriptures are riddled with hate speech and endorsements of violence. To call these text collections ‘holy’ is an insult to everything I hold dear, like science and human rights. I’m offended by their mere existence, and perceive public displays as a personal offense to my worldview. I demand everybody in every country to respect my feelings and stop these atrocious acts.

    Of course the sane alternative would be to thicken my skin, learn to deal with my emotions (which means I deal with them, not externalizing), respect differences as long as they do no harm.

    These book burnings only exist because people make an unjustified fuzz about it, occasionally in a violent way. You can have your religion with all it’s rules, but you cannot expect people to apply who don’t subscribe.

    • @SulaymanF
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      31 year ago

      The Israeli ambassador to Sweden bragged about how he managed to stop a Torah burning by pressuring the government to intervene. When the Quran got burned, people pointed to the comments as an example of privilege and unequal treatment.

      However, Muslims oppose burning of Bibles and Torahs as well as Quran, as all 3 contain some of the Word of God.

    • MxM111
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      01 year ago

      I do not understand your last sentence at all. Why/what is F Israeli? And why are you talking about Quran when it is about Hebrew Bible burning?