Burning the Quran is offensive. Banning it rewards violent threats.

[Mosby]

Sweden and Denmark are confronted with a dilemma arising from public burnings of the Quran: They can either stick to their long commitment to freedom of expression or bow to the credible threat of violent retribution. Sweden has responded by adhering to its principles — despite that it might have more to lose in doing so — although the government says it is examining ways to discourage further burnings. Denmark is trying to go the other way by seeking legislation that would ban the desecration of the Quran and other sacred texts, including the Bible and Torah.

Both countries have been forced into an unenviable corner by a relative handful of right-wing nationalists who have flaunted their anti-Islamic zealotry by setting the Muslim holy book alight. Sweden and Denmark have rightly condemned those acts of ostentatious destruction. But because they have tolerated the acts in the name of freedom of expression, the countries have been denounced in Muslim nations — a slander that Russian propagandists have been only too pleased to amplify and exploit. Swedish and Danish diplomats have been summoned for dressings down by governments in Muslim countries.

The risk is not only reputational. In 2005, Denmark faced a wave of violent demonstrations after a Danish newspaper printed cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that outraged many Muslims, who regarded them as blasphemous. Sweden’s embassy in Baghdad was stormed and set ablaze this summer, a few weeks after a protester in Stockholm burned a Quran.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/03/quran-burning-sweden-denmark/

[jimfields33]

1. When the Bible is burned, you don't see rioting or other nonsense.

Sorry, but denmark and Sweden were a country before any holy book was burned. They must stand strong or what is the next thing demanded?

[erronis]

2. Any time you give in to religious extremists you are rewarding them

What gives these jerks the power to tell another person what they can and cannot do?

Your religion only has power over you - not the rest of the world.

Can you imagine if some crazy religion decided that burning the cross was blasphemy, punishable by death? Then many of those cross-burning KKK stupids should be put to death.

Defiling the image of some supposed holy person (Islam)? Writing critically about the holy leaders of a country (Iran)? Taking some "god"s name in vain (xian)?

[keithbvadu2]

3. The Bible and Quran have many of the same rules/ideals (Ten Commandments for example). Burn them tog

The Bible and Quran have many of the same rules/ideals (Ten Commandments for example). Burn them together.

Torah also?

[msongs]

4. religionist nutters - everyone should grovel and eat dirt to avoid offending their fee fees nt