WEB Notes: Blasphemy? They do not even know what that means. So what if the guy burns a quran or Bible. Let people think for themselves. No one should be sent to prison for burning a book. If someone burned a Bible I would say they are a fool, but it certainly is not worth sending them to prison over. More and more freedom is being removed from the people.
A Danish man who posed a video of himself setting fire to the Quran on Facebook has been charged with blasphemy in the first such prosecution for 46 years.
The 42-year-old suspect put the clip, entitled “Consider your neighbour: it stinks when it burns” to a group called “YES TO FREEDOM – NO TO ISLAM” in December 2015.
Jan Reckendorff, from the public prosecutor’s office in Viborg, said: “It is the prosecution’s view that circumstances involving the burning of holy books such as the Bible and the Quran can in some cases be a violation of the blasphemy clause, which covers public scorn or mockery of religion.
Source: Danish man who videoed himself burning the Quran charged with blasphemy | The Independent
Obviously he has every right to burn the Koran, just as he has the right to burn the Bible, the Talmud, or any flag of his choosing. If it’s his property and an inanimate object, he has the right to do as he pleases with it.
That said, many Europeans who make a big stink over laws protecting Islam from condemnation are hypocrites. Why don’t those same Europeans raise a similar stink about Holocaust denial laws, or other laws protecting Jewish sacred cows? What’s good for the Muslim goose is good for the Jewish gander.
There is no such thing as a “right to never be offended” — even gravely offended. I wish people around the world would get that through their goddamn heads once and for all! ALL nontrivial speech and writing has the capacity to offend someone, somewhere. So, if everyone had the right to never be offended, no one would ever be able to publicly say anything of substance.
Free speech is a right worth killing and dying for.