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Denmark plans jail term for burning Quran in public (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Codifying religious texts as actually legally sacred and more important than others is wild, though.

[–] taanegl@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

It smats of blasphemy laws

[–] Templa@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I agree. However how do we explain people that are most likely burning books for hate speech/xenophobic reasons that they should stop doing that? This is a really hard subject and I completely agree that passing laws for this can be a slippery slope for other things.