Swedish police said they have granted a permit for a protest where the organiser plans to burn a Koran outside Stockholm's main mosque on Wednesday, the start of the Muslim three-day Eid al-Adha holiday.

Under a heavy police presence and with around a dozen opponents shouting at him in Arabic, Momika, dressed in beige trousers and a shirt, addressed the crowd of several dozen through a megaphone.

He stomped on the Koran and put on it strips of bacon, which is forbidden in Islam. He then lit a few pages on fire before slamming it shut and kicked it like a football while waving Swedish flags

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I saw plenty of libs defending this using the exact same arguments that typical islamophobic chuds use. Claiming freeze-peach, or "but the guy who did it is Iraqi!" etc. etc.

  • Waldoz53 [he/him, any]
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    "He stomped on the Koran and put on it strips of bacon, which is forbidden in Islam" i hate this wording so much. pig products are forbidden to CONSUME in islam, not bacon existing on its own

    why do people think the quran touching bacon will magically make it a sinful book or like...destroy a muslims life or w/e? like all it is is that muslims arent supposed to eat pig products. if a muslim eats it or handles it by mistake or as work (like if youre a butcher or work at a grocery store, or a restaurant, where you'd handle meat) its fine. even if a muslim person has a pig heart transplant its also fine!!

    i remember reading about some teenage hijab wearing girl getting assaulted by some guy who on top of trying to rip her hijab off, threw strips of bacon at her. really weird thing to throw and waste food like that at someone in general but like what did the guy think throwing bacon at her would do? send her to hell? racists are so weird man

    • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      reminds me of the great azov heroes greasing their bullets in pig fat to own the chechens i guess???

      that worked out for them data-laughing

      • WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        Owning The Heathens by getting all my weaponry jammed while I’m cornered in a basement tunnel under the big ass steel mill

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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      1 year ago

      putting on my pathologizing hat

      the christian is so used to people being condemned to eternal damnation for things they have no control over that they cannot fathom the simple "you didn't know? that's alright" legalisms of pork prohibition in islam & judaism

      • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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        As a Jew, we're pretty familar with the tale of Adam and Eve since we invented it. The whole point of the apple is that something that is forbidden is more forgivable if you do it unintentionally, so Adam and Eve didn't need clothing pre-apple, for example, because they were never aware they lacked clothing.

        Even then, the FIRST thing God does when they realized what they did was give them clothing and then explain that now they have to take some bad with the good in life. So it's like...what gives with Christians and the whole anti-forgiveness or anti-leniency?

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      They're trying to start a shooting fight so they're just doing whatever they can to piss off whatever stereotype they think people are. Like regardless of how the victim feels about it, the attacker is doing the wosrt thing they can think of to hurt someone without leaving bruises or provoking serious assault charges.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      undefined> pig products are forbidden to CONSUME in islam, not bacon existing on its own

      why do people think the quran touching bacon will magically make it a sinful book or like...destroy a muslims life or w/e?

      reddit-logo brain, mostly, adjacent to the Sam "There is more science in one zip code of New York than in all of the history of Islam" Harris style New Atheists that have lost their shit about Muslims since at least September of 2001.

    • Lerios [hy/hym]
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      what did the guy think throwing bacon at her would do? send her to hell?

      it's not about doing anything material, its about making an Other feel humilated, powerless, and unsafe, establishing that they "shouldn't" be here, and letting other chuds know that they have support and can be open/bolder