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[-] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Protest like what? The burning or the stabbing?

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I think you mean this one

On 13 February 2025 Hamit Coşkun was attacked by Moussa Kadri with a knife for burning the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London.

[-] Naich@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

Why was the dude burning a Qur'an?

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Who cares? Stabbing people for high emissions in the ULEZ is a bit excessive

[-] Naich@lemmings.world -3 points 1 year ago

You know why he was doing it. Why be so coy?

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I don't really care why, stabbing someone for it is lunatic behaviour.

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The 51-year-old wrote posts on social media detailing his plan and saying it was to "protest the Islamist government" of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom he claimed "has made Turkey a base for radical Islamists and is trying to establish a Sharia regime", the court heard.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mxdl75gnvo

[-] Naich@lemmings.world -2 points 1 year ago

Why was he burning a Qur'an rather than holding a sign? Don't be coy.

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Naich@lemmings.world -2 points 1 year ago

Why was he burning a Qur'an rather than holding a sign?

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago
[-] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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