Danish legislators revoke blasphemy law, make it official for ANY holy book to be burnt (photo)
- Danish legislators have reviewed centuries-old blasphemy law
- They proposed that religion should not dictate what is allowed or forbidden to say publicly
- Burning of holy books can be done in this European country without prosecution of burner
Some Danish lawmakers have come together to review and repeal a blasphemy law that has been in practice for hundreds of years. Their focus is basically on laws prohibiting the public ridiculing of a religion and the burning of holy books.
NAIJ.com gathered that Denmark was the only Scandinavian country with a blasphemy law. According to The Guardian, the European country has only had a few blasphemy trials over a period of eighty years.
Many of the high-profile cases have been dropped. This includes the comic imitation of Prophet Muhammad published in Jyllands-Posten newspaper in year 2005.
File photo of a book being burnt.
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On this note, the first man to be charged publicly for burning the Quran in the 1970s has become a free man. The issue of burning religious books became a focal point when a 42-year-old man from northern Jutland shared a video of himself burning the Quran while saying ‘Yes to freedom, no to Islam.’
The man had written a text to accompany the video. He said "consider your neighbor: it stinks when it burns.”
With the legislature’s decision to repeal the penal code blasphemy clause on public scorn against a religion, the charges against the 42-year-old man were dropped. There was absolutely no point in going on with the prosecution since the law with which he would have been prosecuted was scrapped.
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“Religion should not dictate what is allowed and what is forbidden to say publicly,” says Bruno Jerup, an MP who proposed to repeal the law. “It gives religion a totally unfair priority in society,” he added.
It should be known that the burning of Quran has led to the lynching, arrest and death of the burners in Muslim-majority countries. Muslims see the Quran as a holy book that should be treated with reverence. Any form of desecration on this book is a grave sin to many of them.
What is your take on this, would you burn the Bible or the Holy Quran just for the fun of it?
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