Protesters storm Swedish embassy in Baghdad, set it on fire over planned Koran burning

that’s such an interesting take on religious people forcing their beliefs on others: so what if they sin? Let your god take care of it, or do you think he’s too incompetent to deal with it himself?

removal is a nice euphemism for a foreign invasion and installation of a government hostile to most of the people during a decade of occupation and ressource exploitation.

Weren't it some nazis burning Koran? Who else would do something this pointless?

Many Muslims don't give a shit. Provoking poor uneducated people from war-torn countries unsuprisingly does not give you cozy wholesome responses.

It is naive to believe that a Quran burning is simply a "social experiment". People who passionately support the book burning are obviously hating Muslims passionately as well.

I’m a little conflicted on it, I feel like both are in the wrong, though the Iraqi Muslims obviously took it way too far. Books are only being burned because it’ll have a reaction, otherwise it’s just mean-spirited that they’re trying to disrespect someone else’s beliefs. Muslims on the other hand shouldn’t be so predictable that they fall right into it and burning an embassy is just a tad bit of an overreaction. Muslims themselves even have a procedure for burning Qurans, so it’s not like they don’t do it themselves. Granted, the intent is different, but whatever, can they just stop being religious zealots?

Book burning is what fascists do and "just ignore them" is not the way to go about it. If the book burning wouldnt start a response next thing they'd burn a mosque and if that fails they'll just straight up murder people to incite a reaction.

We Middle Easterners can be way more racist and nationalistic than some drunk skinhead losers in Europe. That guy seems to be the type that browses r/AskMiddleEast or r/exmuslim. Maybe some guy from a broken family, daddy issues or whatever, I am not his psychotherapist lol. Fact is tho, that Nazis use this story as validation and that his supporters are mostly fascists as well.

Or to put it in other ways: you can burn a bible just fine.

Heck, someone even got a permission to burn a torah and a bible, showed up and then didn't burn them, but made his point that he could've.

I'm not a believer, but I'd say that the holy book of one of the biggest religions on the planet is rather important in the global context. It's literally one of the major ethical foundation of over two billion people or at least a big part of these believers.

So like it or no, it matters on the geo political scale. It certainly matters enough to some people to actually storm an embassy over a perceived great insult. Now if that's a good thing that so many people take it that seriously is another question. I for one don't like that, but that doesn't make it go away.

The Quran does not have to be important to you personally, but burning it has no good intentions towards Muslim populations inside and outside Sweden.

Swedish authorities were informed about the planned Quran burning and actively allowed it. Allowing the Quran burning is imo more extreme and political, than not allowing it.

Some people do see things like bible burnings as a way of making a threat that those who believe in it are next similar to cross burning being used as a threat against black people regardless of the stated intent (people lie btw). I don't think the law should pander to the false persecution fetishes people have, but unlike 10s of millions of white Christian men in America, Iraqi people have a good reason to be distrustful. Still don't think it should be illegal, but I'm also not going to be quick to dismiss their fears when 100s of thousands (maybe millions) of civilians in Iraq have been murdered in the last two decades, largely allowed because of racism and islamophobia.