Recent incidents at protests have attracted outrage and formal diplomatic action from several Muslim-majority countries
www.euronews.com
The anti-Islam demonstration in Copenhagen comes after a string of Quran burnings in Sweden and Denmark in recent weeks.
www.aljazeera.com
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People benefit from an extended freedom of speech when they demonstrate,” University of Copenhagen law Professor Trine Baumbach told the Reuters news agency, explaining Danish laws. “It does not just include verbal expression. People can express themselves in various ways, such as through the burning of items.”
Tough situation. This isn’t just a far-right thing as the second article might suggest. One of the swedish quran burners is an Iraqi refugee. I think freedom of blasphemy is in the top of most important types of freedom of speech/expression/opinion though I have no desire to piss of so many people by burning a for them holy book. Not like it would delete it from the planet anyway. I did smoke a good part of an old bible as rolling paper but that caused a minimal risk to myself and zero chance of attacks on others.
On the other hand, not allowing protesters to burn holy books, by law, just isn’t an option. Banning it under pressure from those who do consider it a holy book would be even worse. That would definitely lead to more quran burnings, or even calls for an international quran+bible+torah burning day. Seems neither side can give in and escalation seems inevitable… and then still neither side will be able to give in.
It’s probably not going to stay isolated to Scandinavia either and it’s not going to be just about burning qurans either. Just a few years ago it required a cartoonist or painter combined with a desire to piss off nearly 2 billion muslims to create any image of Muhammad. Nowadays, with the help of AI, their prophet increasingly features in far more offensive scenes than walking around with a bomb hat.