• TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I don’t see how someone burning a copy of a book that they paid for themselves is discrimination. It is criticism and protest, but not discriminatory. It isn’t denying anyone else’s access to the words in the book. It’s just making a political statement.

    Ideas should always be allowed to be criticized. Inanimate objects shouldn’t be given human rights.

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      1 year ago

      So the general issue why burning such a copy should be considered incorrect is the fact that Quran, apart from being just another book, is a symbol of Islamic religion. Hence why it appears offensive to Muslims. Same logic applies to other symbols. Do you think it’s absolutely okay to come to a square and burn LGBTI or BLM flags. If you were a gay and saw someone else burning a rainbow flag, would you feel safe at such place?

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        1 year ago

        I will always support someone’s right to burn an inanimate object that they own themselves. I would think that person is an asshole, but would not feel threatened by it in anyway. I am what those BLM flag burners would consider a POC.

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      1 year ago

      You’re bing purposefully obtuse. This does not stop criticism of Islam or the Quaran, or making political statements about Islam.

      It is banning an act that has been very specifically used with the intent of inciting hatred.