Freedom of Speech, Religious Desecration

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I’ve never burned a religious text, and I have no intention of starting now. But if we wish to live with freedom of speech and religion, we should reject the teachings of any religion

Summary

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Salwan Momika , an atheist Iraqi asylum seeker living in Sweden , was put on trial in 2023 for “agitation against an ethnic or national group” over his public burnings of the Quran .

On 29 January , Momika was shot to death in an apparent act of revenge for his desecrations.

The Quran teaches that those who desecrate its words will not go unpunished.

Since Momika’s death there have been a spate of copycat incidents, and many people have taken to social media to announce that they plan to burn large numbers of Qurans in his honour.

In the UK , an individual named Martin Frost was arrested and has now pleaded guilty to “causing racially and religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm, and distress”.

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Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

likely offensive

Hate speech

not hateful