Denmark Bans Burning the Koran

Does not mention in the article whether this is specific to the Koran, but in a linked article<p><i>&quot;The government will propose legislation that prohibits the inappropriate handling of objects with essential religious significance for a religious community&quot;, Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard told a press conference.</i><p><i>&quot;The proposal will thus make it punishable to, for example, in public burn a Koran, Bible or Torah,&quot; he said.</i>

Of all the places in the world Europe should be painfully familiar with the fact that appeasement that does not work. The fact that their own freedom matters less than what some fanatics think is insane. This is a government that has no intention of protecting its people or espousing the ideas of freedom of thought to the rest of the world.

Broader principal - if your &quot;free speech&quot; is all about performative offending and fight-picking, then you need to be told that YOYO for the associated consequences and costs.

well, uhm, that sounds like 2 times the amount of danish police plus military should show up sometime soon and burn a bunch of Bibles, Korans, Torahs &amp; Ikea Catalogs somewhere in Denmark