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Y'all engaging with HypnoCoosh need to realize he's never going to argue in good faith and he's faking all this

which one is Hypno?

Burning a copy of their bible shouldn't generate this type of response. Its like a trap where they are proving true negative stereotypes of the muslim community by being baited.

I saw them attacking a bunch of cops during a peaceful protest. They got into quite the fucking mess.

You say this as if it's not tens of thousands of dollars of destruction against the livelihoods of people who had nothing to do with any of this shit.

Burning cars will not fix a problem, unless the problem is that there aren't enough cars on fire.

personally as a white person I dont feel I get to dictate how an oppressed minority group responds to hatred

it seems the core tenets of Islam are incompatible with western values of free speech/expression/religion

LOL, this whole "I CAN'T SAY IF THEIR ACTIONS ARE WRONG" schtick is so moronic. You might as well just give up on the idea of society, openly state that we can't make laws that apply to everyone, and let the world fall into a state of bellum omnium contra omnes. After all, why should anyone get to tell Person X, who feels aggrieved or offended by something Person Y said or did, that they shouldn't be able to go set Person Y's house on fire in response? Who's to say how they should react?

Burn an American flag in front of a bunch of good ol boys and tell me how much they love free speech

Just can't believe they'd let racist trash like this stay up on page 1

Were not talking about a person, were talking about a large group of people

if it was just a person, yeah sure maybe theres something wrong with that person

when a collective decides theres cause to riot theres something bigger at play and its up to society to rectify it

Also, criticizing Islam doesn't make someone a racist.

The Muslims who engage in this behaviour and take the bait only shoot themselves in the foot. Public opinion was not very immigrant friendly to start with and this is pushing the existing support into the ground. Our next election is in September and the Nationalist party Sverigedemokraterna, which had begun to lose support in the polls for the first time in years, will thrive on this. And if they come to power, it will go downhill fast for non-whites.

Were not talking about a person, were talking about a large group of people

if it was just a person, yeah sure maybe theres something wrong with that person

when a collective decides theres cause to riot theres something bigger at play and its up to society to rectify it

What's the alternative to allowing the dude to burn the Quran? Ban book burning to appease a religious minority?

Ban being an openly racist asshole?

Obviously Paludan's move is pure provocation and I don't begrudge people falling for it, but the depth to which they fall is pretty disturbing.

The dude couldn't even get enough votes to get elected, his views are not endorsed by anyone.

their trust in our democracy is justifiably low.

so you're saying the rioting is justified?

the people doing this need to be uprooted and removed from society, not mollycoddled and told that they're in the right

criticizing Islam doesn't make someone a racist.

Just can't believe they'd let racist trash like this stay up on page 1

Criticizing Islam doesn't make someone a bigot, but threatening to burn their holy book does.

Let's face it, this douchebag antagonized a religious minority to get this type of reaction so he could point at their indignation and go "see! look, they really are violent, hostile people who won't assimilate into our culture! we should enact laws making it harder for them to move and live here!"

How the fuck is post 24 still up?

when a collective decides theres cause to riot theres something bigger at play and its up to society to rectify it

Also, I was responding to a comment calling this thread "racist trash." Neither I nor the person to whom I responded was referring to the politician who burned the Koran.

I can't remember a Christian group marching into the office of a newspaper that published something they found offensive and murdering its staff or killing filmmakers they dislike. It's not a matter of race; it's just that conservative/fundamentalist Islam is incompatible with democratic principles like freedom of speech. Hopefully the trend in the near future will be toward a more moderate or liberal interpretation of Islam.

It's weird to refer to Paludan as simply a "politician". He's a neonazi and a pedophile. Moreover, he's publically admitted that the subsequent riots was his goal all along. I don't think it'd be entirely wrong to call him a terrorist.

Ok but this is not Charlie Hebdo. These riots aren't committed by religious fundamentalists, but by angry and disenfranchised youths. It's not a phenomenon that's unique to any religion.

It is quite far removed from the Charlie Hebdo killings. They were clear acts of terrorism by a violent terrorist group. These riots are by regular angry, disenfranchised youths.

It is quite far removed from the Charlie Hebdo killings. They were clear acts of terrorism by a violent terrorist group. These riots are by regular angry, disenfranchised youths.

This Leftist call it a type of terrorism:

https://www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/mr9plq/valdsverkare-maste-gripas-och-straffas

Both groups got pissed off and resorted to violence because somebody disrespected their special book.

Riots don't happen out of the blue because someone does something disrespectful.

The Charlie Hebdo killings were deliberate and premeditate murders.

And in that case, "the spark that lit the flame" was the publishing of cartoons that hurt the killers' feelings