Denmark Considers Banning Quran-Burning Protests In Craven Submission to Sharia (Islamic Law)

The country that the world looked up to for standing for the freedom of speech back in 2005 when their leading newspaper published the Danish cartoons, when no other major media in the Western world would, has surrendered. Once respected for their brave and principled for Western values.

Once considered a leading light among Western nations for standing for free speech (ie Danish cartoons), Denmark has dropped to its feeble knees. Pathetic.

I do not support book burnings — we don’t burn books, Nazis burn books — but I’ll defend to the death the right for anyone to do it. It’s a dark future if we allow the freedom of speech to be destroyed by violent intimidation.

Almost twenty years ago, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten “inflamed the Muslim world” (as if that were hard to do) by publishing some innocuous Muhammad cartoons. The cartoons were published in September 2005 without incident. An Egyptian newspaper picked them up and ran them in October. But it wasn’t until the Organization of Islamic Cooperation met in December of that year that the cartoon jihad was launched. It was thus decided that the Danish cartoons (to whom no one had paid any attention until that moment) was where the Muslim world would throw down the sword in order to force the West to adhere to the blasphemy laws under the sharia (Islamic law). And they chose to do it by brute force and violence. The Danish cartoons sparked violent protests, riots and embassy burnings. But the Danes stood by their cherished values and we stood with the Danes.

 

Denmark considers banning Quran-burning protests

By Euronews with AFP • July 31, 2023;- 09:19

The government says desecrating Islam’s holy book can fuel extremism and have negative geopolitical impacts.

Denmark announced on Sunday it was considering banning Quran-burning protests, which have created tensions with the Muslim world.

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Islam’s holy book has been desecrated at several demonstrations in Sweden and Denmark recently, fraying diplomatic relations between the pair and several Middle Eastern countries.

The Danish government claims the stunt plays into the hands of extremists and sows division, though defenders see it as a necessary – yet unsavoury – part of freedom of speech.

The authorities want to “explore” the possibility of stopping situations where “other countries, cultures and religions are insulted”, especially if they have “significant negative consequences for Denmark… particularly in terms of security,” the foreign ministry wrote in a statement.

“This must of course be done within the framework of freedom of expression protected by the constitution,” it added, stressing such liberty was one of Denmark’s most important values.

At the end of June, Salwan Momika, a 37-year-old Iraqi refugee in Sweden, set fire to the Quran outside Stockholm’s main mosque.

Last week, he again stomped on and tore up a copy of the book outside the Iraqi Embassy to show his opposition to the faith.

The incident caused a diplomatic spat with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran which summoned Swedish diplomats. Algeria also recalled the representatives of Denmark.

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Hundreds of Iraqis also invaded and set fire to the Swedish embassy in Baghdad as a result of the incident.

The Swedish ambassador was expelled from Iraq, while Iran has indicated it will not accept a new ambassador from the Scandinavian country on its territory.

The Danish Foreign Ministry notes Quran-burning protests have “reached a level where Denmark, in many parts of the world, is perceived as a country that facilitates the insult and denigration of the cultures, religions and traditions of other countries.”

The “main purpose” of some of these demonstrations is to provoke and “could have important consequences”, it claimed.

Denmark’s far-right has also seized on rancour, with the Danske Patrioter movement posting a video of a man desecrating and burning what appears to be a Quran.

Trying to copy the previous incident, nearly a thousand demonstrators gathered at night in Baghdad and tried to walk towards the Danish embassy, ​​but Iraqi police dispersed them with truncheons and tear gas.