The motion wasn't "don't burn qurans" though. It was essentially "Acknowledge that broadcasting yourself burning a religious text is intended as incitement."
There's a reason China, Vietnam, and Cuba are all in favor of it
There's a reason China, Vietnam, and Cuba are all in favor of it
Geopolitics?
Anyways, I can't find the actual text of the resolution anywhere, but the snippets in news articles seem to be about doing this to any religious text or other sacred object, not specific the Quran. If that's the case then I'm more in favor of it.
At least for China, you can get arrested for burning the Quran. It has little to do with geopolitics and more to do with not letting Islamophobia get a foothold in your country.
I think China's POV on this is that speech intended purely to piss people off shouldn't be broadcast at all, and that even well-intended speech that is critical of a group should be limited to certain contexts in order to prevent needless conflict.
It is hateful incitement against a religious group. It should be viewed identically to performatively burning an lgbt flag, which is similarly hateful incitement against lgbt people. Hatespeech should be a crime and this is that.
The only reason it's not illegal in america is that it's "freedom of speech" bullshit.
That's all I was able to find, too. As far as I can tell it includes all religious texts, and its only connection to Islam is that the motion is largely a response to a pattern of antagonism by Europeans toward Muslim refugees.
Generally, they try to provoke Muslim communities into breaking their precious civility so that they can call them aggressive for being incited by something that isn't legally recognized as incitement. That reasoning only works under the presupposition that refugees have less right to be in the country than citizens, but considering that the west is responsible for the conditions leading to every refugee needing to seek refuge, it's a very silly stance
The motion wasn't "don't burn qurans" though. It was essentially "Acknowledge that broadcasting yourself burning a religious text is intended as incitement."
There's a reason China, Vietnam, and Cuba are all in favor of it
Geopolitics?
Anyways, I can't find the actual text of the resolution anywhere, but the snippets in news articles seem to be about doing this to any religious text or other sacred object, not specific the Quran. If that's the case then I'm more in favor of it.
At least for China, you can get arrested for burning the Quran. It has little to do with geopolitics and more to do with not letting Islamophobia get a foothold in your country.
I think China's POV on this is that speech intended purely to piss people off shouldn't be broadcast at all, and that even well-intended speech that is critical of a group should be limited to certain contexts in order to prevent needless conflict.
It is hateful incitement against a religious group. It should be viewed identically to performatively burning an lgbt flag, which is similarly hateful incitement against lgbt people. Hatespeech should be a crime and this is that.
The only reason it's not illegal in america is that it's "freedom of speech" bullshit.
"Harmony"
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That's all I was able to find, too. As far as I can tell it includes all religious texts, and its only connection to Islam is that the motion is largely a response to a pattern of antagonism by Europeans toward Muslim refugees.
Generally, they try to provoke Muslim communities into breaking their precious civility so that they can call them aggressive for being incited by something that isn't legally recognized as incitement. That reasoning only works under the presupposition that refugees have less right to be in the country than citizens, but considering that the west is responsible for the conditions leading to every refugee needing to seek refuge, it's a very silly stance