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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One has a right to burn any book they own.

If that offends you, perhaps it's not the country for you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So why don't we see atheists burning Bibles?

[–] chatokun 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Burning books like this requires enough targeted hatred and a need to offend the targets. It also is usually more effective if your target is a minority (not specifically racial, just a much weaker target), as that bolsters your position of power and lessens the likelihood of retaliation.

Atheists sometimes have that much hatred, but at least where I am Christianity isn't small enough to be a minority, so the fear of backlash might be holding back some of the hatred type atheists.

Another reason may depend on why someone became an atheists. Many of us don't hate religious people directly, we just have issues with what organized religion gets away with. People like me came to this conclusion by comparing scientific evidence to blind faith. By nature, faith will be more emotional and reactionary, whereas if you come to a position after learning and changing yourself, you're more open to understanding why it's not really a good idea to hate like that.

Though I'd call myself agnostic vs an atheist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Burning books like this requires enough targeted hatred and a need to offend the targets.

In other words... white supremacists can't mainstream their ideology by burning Bibles.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you heard of black metal?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have heard of black metal. I have also heard black metal itself - I think I've heard elevator music that's less boring than black metal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just saying those are atheists burning bibles lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh really? And the Christo-fascists has nothing to say about that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nergal is constantly in court over such things

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Russian psyops in full swing baby

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not unlikely.

[–] peetabix 14 points 1 year ago

When they set fire to the Swedish embassy in Baghdad (unsure if it was) as retaliation, what are the chances that there was a copy of the Qur'an in that building?

[–] OccamsTeapot 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All these countries criticising Sweden for this like they have no understanding how freedom of speech and the right to protest work.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm always disturbed when Muslims actually are baited by this. They know the guys that set it up this way are not their friends, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The government’s line is increasingly that both the Quran burnings themselves and the outrage over them are being fuelled by foreign agents provocateurs and disinformation efforts – including from Russia - which is enraged at the prospect of Sweden joining NATO.

Ministers have so far ruled out amending Sweden’s freedom of speech law or banning Quran burnings outright, with Kristersson insisting that there is a place for responsibility as opposed to state restriction.

Starting this month, border guards are being given enhanced stop-and-search and electronic surveillance powers, a move that Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer says will allow them “to identify people coming into Sweden who could represent a threat to security.”

Earlier this year, ex-prime minister and Social Democrats leader Magdalena Andersson told national broadcaster SVT that those burning the Quran in protest are “useful idiots” doing an unwitting service to those seeking to divide Swedish society, and that they had a duty to consider the consequences of their actions.

With ideas like these front and centre in its platform, the party has risen to become the second-largest in the Swedish parliament, and it is now sustaining the current coalition government via a confidence and supply agreement, meaning its voice in public debate is louder than ever.

After at least a decade of notoriously harsh comments about Muslims, he tweeted last week that Islam is “an anti-democratic, violent and misogynistic religion/ideology”, describing the prophet Muhammad as “a warlord, mass murderer, slave trader and robber”.


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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fyi this summary is nonsense and gets multiple things wrong. great example of ai getting confused.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FYI, it cannot get anything wrong, it takes sentences directly from the article. Sure, it might not be a good summary (I haven't checked), but it definitely doesn't contain any falsehoods (unless the article does as well).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

specifically, the context for the 5th paragraph is replaced, making it seem like it's talking about the social democrats when in reality it is talking about the sweden democrats. Your logic is flawed, falsehoods can be and are introduced despite each sentence being taken straight from the article.