Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Quran burning in Sweden?

Great one:

With due respect and apology to you, please don't say, in moments such as this,

If you burn the Koran, so what?

 

What does that do to Islam? 

 

I am not a Muslim. I am for peace everywhere in the world.

You know that burning the Qu'ran is not about fire and the Holy Book, but a deliberate way to provoke, and to say "Go back to your country, we don't want you here." It is an element of racism.

TF

 

From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovdepoju@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, April 22, 2022 at 3:51 AM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Quran burning in Sweden?

If you burn the Koran, so what?

 

What does that do to Islam? 

 

Nothing.

 

Why are Muslims so readily provoked into acts of violence in the name of religion, thereby justifying their critics?

 

Why not use the provocative moment as an opportunity for public discourse on mutual respect and the transcendence of Islamic spiritual vision over such inanities as Koran burning?

 

Thanks

 

Toyin

 

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 22:48 Salimonu Kadiri <ogunlakaiye@hotmail.com> wrote:

​Bible, the holy book of Christians, is spelled with five alphabets and so is the holy book of Muslims, the Quran spelled with five alphabets. Muslims holy place of worship called Mosque is spelled with six alphabets just like the Christians holy place of worship called, Church contains six alphabets. The original home of Islam and Christianity is the Middle East and consequently the two religious faiths share, mostly, the same prophets. The Christians Joseph is the same person called Yousef by the Muslims; The woman called Miriam by the Muslims is the same woman called Maria by the Christians; and the person called Jesus by the Christians is called Isa by the Muslims etc. In the main, the two religions are almost alike even though the language of worship may differ from country to country.

 

Christianity did not originate in Europe; it was only adopted through catholic and orthodox churches leading subsequently to various kinds of Christianity in Europe and the world. In Sweden and Denmark, the Viking's gods, Thor, Odin and Freyja were worshiped before conversion to Christianity occurred. Rasmus Paludan has been profiled as a Danish right-wing extremist who applied and got permissions from the police authority in Sweden to burn the holy book of the Muslims, the Quran at six different places in Sweden. If Rasmus Paludan had been a good Christian, he would have been busy preparing for the Easter celebrations, instead of choosing to begin to burn Quran in Sweden on Maundy (holy) Thursday, 14 April 2022, in Skäggtorp, a district in the town of Linköping. His chosen areas to burn Quaran are segregated quarters where foreigners and mostly Muslims in Sweden reside and they are all located in districts which all the political class in Sweden have classified as socially vulnerable areas. Why did the police grant permission to Rasmus Paludan to burn Qurans in the residential areas of the socially vulnerable people?

 

The Swedish Prime Minister, Magdalena Anderson, visited Norrköping, one of the towns affected by the consequence of Paludan's Quran burning political enterprise on Wednesday, 20 April 2022. She said, "In Sweden one has the right to say detestable things. Even to protest against it. But never to throw stone against the Police (p. 10, Swedish Dagens Nyheter, 21 April 2022)." Contrary to Magdalena Anderson's assertions, Rasmus Paludan was not saying detestable thing but was actually doing detestable thing by going to the district where Muslims live in Sweden to burn their holy book, the Quran. Why should the burning of Quran by Rasmus Paludan be allowed? Prime Minister Anderson replied, "Sweden has a strong freedom of expression even when it concerns detestable opinions. It is an important part of our democracy. The extreme-right provocateur, Rasmus Paludan, stands for a hate message which is not dignifying to Sweden (p. 10-11, DN, 21 April 2022)." Again, the Prime Minister got it wrong because there is a huge gap between 'freedom of expression and freedom to act anyhow in the public.' Freedom of expression can reasonably not include freedom to harass, assault and humiliate people on the ground of their religious beliefs. Granting permission to the Danish right-wing extremist to come to Sweden and select the residential areas of Muslims to burn Quran was intended to harass, humiliate and assault the sensibilities of the Muslims living in those areas. The Police should have known or foreseen that they were tempting the Swedish Muslims into violence by granting Rasmus Paludan permission to born Quran in Muslim's residential areas.

S. Kadiri

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Quran burning in Sweden?

It's time for Muslims to wake up and smell the juice.

This Holy Month of Ramadan, isn't this type of provocation a sacrilege and precisely the kind that leads to foreseeable consequences such as spontaneous, unplanned VIOLENCE?  

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