• tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
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    -31 year ago

    you are clearly trolling so i end it here. You are ignoring the key issue, that burning a symbol of a group is always meant as a threat against the group. It has nothing to do with feelings of being offended or freedom of speech or whatever you try to justify your hatred with. If you defend the burning of symbols of a minority it is an expression of your hatred against that minority.

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      1 year ago

      you are clearly trolling so i end it here.

      Sure, it’s me who is trolling - not you who constantly is not engaging with the arguments I made.

      you try to justify your hatred with.

      And for some reason you also get personal. I don’t hate muslims, I don’t like fundamentalist of any kind and I think organised religion is an obsolete concept that mostly brings suffering into the world, while at the same time I respect every humans personal faith - as long as they tolerate me and others.

      If you defend the burning of symbols of a minority it is an expression of your hatred against that minority.

      Nope. I don’t even have to agree with actions - but I can think that people have the right to do them. This concept is called tolerance - you should try it some times.

      But I also have a question for you to think about - who is offended by burning of Koran? Secular, moderate muslims or fundamentalist? Maybe you are the one missing the point, the guy burning the book is trying to make.

      • Well i am atheist, my wife is a moderate muslim and we feel threatened by it, because it is a threat and it is no coincidence that i goes along with more and more open hatred, discrimination and violence against muslims or people perceived as muslims in europe. And you are proudly defending that hatred so it is obvious that you share the hatred.

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          21 year ago

          Well i am atheist, my wife is a moderate muslim and we feel threatened by it

          Fair point, but I asked if moderates and secular muslims were offended?

          Again, I don’t hate muslims and I don’t think that burning koran or any book is a good thing. I might even join a counter protest, if some nazis were burning koran somewhere not far away. But I believe they have a fundamental right to do so, just like AfD clowns and Querdenker have the right to organise protests and marches - I will join the counter protest, but I believe that they have a fundamental right to do so. Freedom of expression is extremely important.

          I get it that you and your wife might be frightened. I’m an immigrant my self and my gf does not pass as german, while being born here. The pure existence of AfD and likes, is rather threatening to me and if the trend continue I might have to seek a new home. But at the same time I strongly believe that people should be able to express them selfes even in ways that might be provokative to myself. Maybe it’s due to stories of my parents living under a regime that randomly forbade all kinds of expressions.