I think this needs some nuance. 1. The rightwing/islamophobic aspect of it has almost exclusively been danish. Paludan grew up there, and only very recently obtained swedish citizenship. His party got 1,8 % of the votes in Denmark, but virtually none in Sweden. The persons currently burning the Quran in Sweden are iraqi refugees. 2. As the article says, it was *Denmark* who scrapped its blasphemy laws in 2017, not *Sweden* as the woman in the clip says (by misstake I assume). In Sweden the blasphemy laws was scrapped in 1949, and some milder laws concerning respect of religion in 1971. The only proposal discussed in Sweden is a law where you can deny a demonstration if it threatens swedish security interests. But the swedish legal process is slow, and it would require a very long process of investigation with tons of instances. Denmark is much faster, for good and for bad. Its useful to stop mass migration, but perhaps less so when you are dealing with protection of freedom of speech. 3. Sweden have the worlds oldest protection of freedom of speech, and this is likely a corner stone in why Sweden is a tolerant country today. The muslims are playing with fire when they express criticism of freedom of speech as freedom of religion cant exist without it. Maybe the next step will be LGBT-persons wanting to censor muslims? There is no muslim majority country with freedom of speech, and therefore no muslim country with freedom of religion. The opression even of other muslim groups in these countries are massive, not to mention christians, jews, hindus, buddhists, atheists, and so on. 4. Muslims yell islamophobia at any instance they can, regardless when and about what it is. In this case two refugees from *Iraq* with virtually no connection to Sweden, burn the Quran. It is condemned by more or less entire Sweden, from the prime minister, to almost any person on the street, and there conclusion is that it is "a sign of growing islamophobia in Sweden." They should read the boy who cried wolf, people have stopped taking them seriously, and I think reactions like this has started to actually increase the support for the Quran burnings. I was appalled for it at first, but when investigations show that 30 out of 31 mosques not only want to ban burning the Quran, but any criticism of Islam, for me personally I actually think this is something society needs in order to get a discussion about Islam and freedom of speech started. 5. Last out of all. Its not about "not understanding" that muslims takes this serious, it is about understanding that taking it seriously is insane. It is a BOOK. Just like Christians have been pushed back over and over, the same needs to be done with Islam. Today people thinks this is insanity, but very high profiled christians all over the world made the exact same claims when Life of Brian was released. This isnt about islamophobia, this is about all religions having to accept the rules of a free and secular society.

It's their country

Freedom of expression?

@enentr

9 ай бұрын

Do you think burning the Koran is freedom of expression or not?

@maximilianmares

14 күн бұрын

@@enentr yes ! it is a freedom of expression ! not a crime ! In special when a religions deculturalize your own culture!

People are quite frankly fed up since 2015 and they don't integrate

I don't think it should be banned but people doing it are clearly doing it to ignite religious and racial tensions and that should absolutely be against the law. Hate speech laws should come into play in this. If somebody burns a religious book in their own backyard that shouldn't be punished but if they film themselves and are saying clearly racially charged stuff in said video,that part should be against the law. Simply disagreeing with a religion should never be against the law but the law should be able to assess the reasons somebody is doing so and based on that should make racial and religious discrimination reasons punishable.