Europe is becoming ever stranger as it keeps capitulating to foreign threats of war and now even terror. There used to be a precedent enshrined in for policy since 9/11 that nation-states should never compromise or appease terror. Denmark is dropping this uncompromising stance as it bans the burning of the Koran following security concerns.
Maltese laws only criminalise the propagation of hate speech which is speech that promotes violence, and the vilification of religion no longer remained a criminal offense under Labour. Indeed, a man had desecrated a Koran in a public space in Malta a couple of years back and wasn’t even prosecuted for it because he didn’t do anything illegal.
Fundamentally, no one cares about being able to burn a Koran or not, but it is a strong precedent for freedom of speech. Many Muslims in Europe are not accepting of the fact that their religion can be criticised and satirised let alone, desecrated and vilified in Europe, and out of political convenience the left in Europe can compromise our fundamental values to win over the Muslim constituency, and this is also, most probably what the left in Denmark is doing.
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