Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things. One of the beginnings of the human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority, its indispensable.

Christopher Hitchens

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A ban on burning a copy of a holy book is dumb, but international Muslims keep taking the bait and racists aren't going to stop baiting them, so this might actually be the best solution.

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best solution would be to apply existing hate speech laws to public gatherings dedicated to publicly "hating" people of a religion or some other minority e.g. LGBT or something else.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, if that's an option that's great. Why haven't they tried that first?

[–] reverendsteveii@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

The bill would make it a criminal offence to burn the Muslim holy book, the Bible or the Torah publicly.

Nice to see a clear dividing line between religions that matter and deserve protection and religions that can still legally be abused

[–] judgeholden@hexbear.net -3 points 1 year ago

I imagine the Danes will act totally normal and not racist in response to this