• GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Pretending to be cool about burning the Qur’an is just pretending to be civilized for westerners. We had a dude burn one in the UK and someone came out with a knife to attack him, and that was like last month. Only western countries permit protest like this.

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      23 hours ago

      I think you mean this one

      On 13 February 2025 Hamit Coşkun was attacked by Moussa Kadri with a knife for burning the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London.

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        The 51-year-old wrote posts on social media detailing his plan and saying it was to “protest the Islamist government” of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom he claimed “has made Turkey a base for radical Islamists and is trying to establish a Sharia regime”, the court heard.

        https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mxdl75gnvo

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            21 hours ago

            Coy? I’m just sharing what I found about the protester. I don’t know any more than that. If you know more, as you seem to imply, you could share it

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                  I think you are avoiding the question. Just say it. It’s because he wants to wind up the Muslims. He’s wants them to know they aren’t welcome here because they are different. At the end of the day, it’s racism. Just fucking admit it.

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                    20 hours ago

                    It’s a Turkish guy protesting the increasing radicalization and loss of secularism in Turkey. Did you even read the article before going off about racism

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                    19 hours ago

                    Chill. This isn’t the guy who burned it. There’s no need for you to try this limp-ass “gotcha” bullshit. No one was defending it, no one “wasn’t just admitting it”.

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      19 hours ago

      There’s no need to pretend to be civilized for Westerners. Most are familiar with the barbarism of their modern colonial history. If anything, Western and civilized are quite contradictory.

      It was Westerners that used their religious book to justify enslaving 12.5 million people and treated them as chattel. I can’t think of a more profound lack humanity in modern human history. Actually the next few that come to mind are also Western atrocities.