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Pretending to be cool about burning the Qur'an is just pretending to be civilized for westerners. We had a dude burn one in the UK and someone came out with a knife to attack him, and that was like last month. Only western countries permit protest like this.
Protest like what? The burning or the stabbing?
I think you mean this one
Why was the dude burning a Qur'an?
Who cares? Stabbing people for high emissions in the ULEZ is a bit excessive
You know why he was doing it. Why be so coy?
I don't really care why, stabbing someone for it is lunatic behaviour.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mxdl75gnvo
Why was he burning a Qur'an rather than holding a sign? Don't be coy.
Coy? I'm just sharing what I found about the protester. I don't know any more than that. If you know more, as you seem to imply, you could share it
Why was he burning a Qur'an rather than holding a sign?
I think you double posted
I think you are avoiding the question. Just say it. It's because he wants to wind up the Muslims. He's wants them to know they aren't welcome here because they are different. At the end of the day, it's racism. Just fucking admit it.
It's a Turkish guy protesting the increasing radicalization and loss of secularism in Turkey. Did you even read the article before going off about racism
Chill. This isn't the guy who burned it. There's no need for you to try this limp-ass "gotcha" bullshit. No one was defending it, no one "wasn't just admitting it".
There's no need to pretend to be civilized for Westerners. Most are familiar with the barbarism of their modern colonial history. If anything, Western and civilized are quite contradictory.
It was Westerners that used their religious book to justify enslaving 12.5 million people and treated them as chattel. I can't think of a more profound lack humanity in modern human history. Actually the next few that come to mind are also Western atrocities.