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Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who staged several Quran burnings in Sweden in 2023, was shot and killed in Sodertalje, near Stockholm.

His actions had sparked international outrage, riots, and diplomatic tensions. Swedish police confirmed a murder investigation is underway, and several arrests have been made.

Momika, who sought asylum in Sweden in 2018, faced charges of incitement to hatred, with a verdict scheduled for the day after his death.

His protests were permitted under free speech laws but led to legal action against him.

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[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 62 points 4 days ago (18 children)

Fuck it, now I kind of want to burn a Quran or Bible for funsies.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Toss in a torah to complete the Abrahamic trifecta and top it with dianetics because fuck scientology in particular.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

momika did it specifically to spark outrage among immigrants. don't do that.

[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 52 points 3 days ago (37 children)

Nah fuck that, If muslims cant handle it they should look the other way like they do when women are stoned to death for showing their hair.

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[–] shamblamblam@aggregatet.org 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Congrats, you just let the terrorists win.

Now people aren't allowed to do things that upset them 🤷

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[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

the man wanted to incite hatred, show him middlefinger by doing the opposite

[–] shamblamblam@aggregatet.org 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The fuck? He should be allowed to burn whatever book he wants in protest, regardless of who it pisses off.

If anything, the only concern the state should have over this is for the environment.

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[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

How do we know he wanted that?

I see the post that says he was being charged with inciting hatred, but also says his act was protected under free speech.

I think it’s dumb to be burning books as the only people who are going to be pissed are the fundamentalists and they’re always pissed off anyway, but I respect his right to free expression.

[–] shamblamblam@aggregatet.org 7 points 3 days ago

I think it's smart to be burning books as an act of protest.

People need to be able to exercise their rights, or else their rights will be taken away.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 19 points 3 days ago (5 children)

so, momika has been in sweden a few years. he converted to christianity in his home country, started shouting loudly about freedom of speech there, got told to stop, then filed for asylum in sweden. once here he kept doing the same thing, which of course jeopardises his asylum claim. only he wasn't first. rasmus paludan has been burning qurans here for a while, always doing it in neighbourhoods with a majority muslim population. as a demonstration of the problem with religion, it's effective. once. but both of them did it for years, and the things they have been saying during their book burning made it clear that it was not actually about freedom of speech, but about hatred of muslims. not islam, muslims. and they were both in court for the crime of hets mot folkgrupp ("incitement of hatred against a population group"). they clearly overstepped the law of the country they were in.

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[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago (21 children)

What other possible reason would someone have to burn a book that is to some more important than their life. Either people dont care about it or become enraged. And just because you have right to do something doesnt mean you should. His actions have caused a lot of harm, also most likely his own death too.

For argument's sake, lets assume he had some positive reason for his actions. Has there been a single positive thing that has come from this? If you want to do good you need to think the consequences through and if you dont then you shouldnt do anything at all.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

Because that's be antisemetic and how dare you to anything against the Jewish people, don't you know European persecuted them so the entire world now can't anything to them due to white guilt

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