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Sweden rules out sweeping changes to free speech law amid Quran burnings (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 1 year ago by CAVOK@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right wing populists will take that, and use it as reason to show all Islamic people as bad, because they want to limit free speech...

[–] mondo_brondo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ooohh I understand now. Thanks for explaining.

Sadly, you’re probably right. :( The fear/hate mongering is real.

[–] taladar@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

To be fair, the subset of the Muslim population who does want to kill people over Koran burnings is absolutely a danger and should be condemned. Luckily that is a very small part of the overall population of Muslims.