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    Religious extremists are a disease on society. It’s a form of insanity that promote extreme irrational and harmful behavior.
    Salwan Momika was absolutely right to be against it and warn against it. No one was hurt by the Quran burnings, and it can never be justified to harm anyone because of it. It can be argued to be distasteful though. But by that logic they should also kill everybody selling hot dogs at a hot dog stand.

    Extreme Islamism has no place in EU or any proper democracy.

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      All Abrahamic faiths. Its an embarrassment that secular society still allows this Iron Age junk a seat at the table.

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        Absolutely, and above I forgot the worst part, religion promotes immoral behavior, while claiming the opposite.
        All based on thousands of years old fallacies. Religions are based on delusions and not reality.

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      I mean this guy was basically going into the hood and screaming at the top of his lungs “get fucked ni**ers”. It was gonna happen eventually, so I’m listing this under “suicide by ethnic minority”.

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        I’m listing this under “suicide by ethnic minority

        That’s complete bullshit, first there is no equivalent to the N word for Muslims, second the N word is a racial thing you can’t change. being a Muslim is a superstition you should get rid of.
        You are making false equivalences, and use it to apologize for murder because of religious fanaticism.

        Even if the equivalence was accurate, it’s not an excuse for killing people. I’m shocked such a moronic post has upvotes!?!?!

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          That’s complete bullshit, first there is no equivalent to the N word for Muslims,

          There’s no equivalent for the N word for Muslims, yeah, but there are ways to offend Muslims as a whole to a similar level, and staging public Quran burnings in front of a mosque to actively provoke Muslims is one of those. Trying to get the Quran banned in Sweden also didn’t do him any favors.

          Even if the equivalence was accurate, it’s not an excuse for killing people.

          It’s not about being an excuse or not; I’m not trying to excuse the murder here. However, if for example I, an Egyptian Muslim, staged multiple public Bible burning in a major church in a Christian neighborhood in Cairo and kept actively provoking Christians I wouldn’t expect to get away with it; I’d be basically screaming “yes baby lynch me”. That’s what I’m talking about here. This is an act meant to, and bound to, really piss people off and there were always going to be people radical enough to think “I should do something about this”, and out of those there were always going to be people who actually did something about it. This murder was a statistical certainty; this is the same principle behind stochastic terrorism.