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[โ€“] Jaysyn@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Denmark over here negotiating with terrorists.

[โ€“] CAVOK@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Negotiating? I'm thinking more of a word that rhymes with "urrender".

[โ€“] Lmaydev@programming.dev -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or defending a religious minority depending which way you look at it.

[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Religious minority? Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, is currently neck and neck with Christianity, and is predicted to account for 70% of all religious people in the world - by far - in the next couple of decades. Minority? Pssh!

[โ€“] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In Denmark?

Edit: it's around 5%

[โ€“] pizzazz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, bending down to the unreasonable demands of a particularly problematic religious minority.

[โ€“] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know about unreasonable. It's their holy text after all.

[โ€“] Mrs_deWinter@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's always unreasonable when religious people make demands towards others outside their religion.

[โ€“] Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yet people get pissed off when Christians do book burnings in America right?

[โ€“] Mrs_deWinter@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

You bet I am, but if burning books was the only or worst thing they did I couldn't care less. Which is why it has to be legal for individuals to keep doing this. Doing it in the name of a government or powerful organisation - this is where it really starts to leave a bad aftertaste.

And just to be perfectly clear, people like me being pissed about something obviously won't and shouldn't be enough reason to ban anything. What definitely should be illegal is political meddling, something that connects religious groups in the US more with the religious extremists abroad this proposed law seeks to appease than some Dane with a Quran and a matchbook.