Summary
Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who staged several Quran burnings in Sweden in 2023, was shot and killed in Sodertalje, near Stockholm.
His actions had sparked international outrage, riots, and diplomatic tensions. Swedish police confirmed a murder investigation is underway, and several arrests have been made.
Momika, who sought asylum in Sweden in 2018, faced charges of incitement to hatred, with a verdict scheduled for the day after his death.
His protests were permitted under free speech laws but led to legal action against him.
Liberals really hate Nazis.
Unless the Nazi is being Nazi against Muslims instead of Jews. Then they love free speech.
As the saying goes, the only good Nazi
Burning a religious book in protest =/= Nazi behaviour
Burning religious books is Nazi behavior. Nazis burnt plenty of religious books. What is next KKK rallies being protests?
There is a difference between book burning as censorship and book burning as protest
Notably the scale and ability to acquire the book afterwards
Indeed. This person burned books to incite hate. Like the Nazis.
Can a person also commit Elon salutes in public because “they do not hurt anyone”?
You choose to believe in your stupid religion. You don’t choose to be a race or sexual orientation so you’re making a false equivalency
We can’t say that because we didn’t get the verdict
Nazis also drank water and breathed air
Guess you’re a Nazi if you do those things
The reason something is done is important
So wanting freedom from religious persecution is the same as being a Nazi now?
Interesting, I did not know that
He was free from religious persecution. Turns out he was the person who was doing the religious persecution and wanted to keep doing it.
How exactly was an Iraqi immigrant in Sweden persecuting anyone? Are we using the word persecution to mean whatever the fuck we like now?
He was inciting hate against a population and advocating for their persecution. How severely disconnected and racist are people to not even see this obvious link?
Is that what he was doing? Or was he protesting what in his own lived experience as a veteran of the war against ISIS was a religion that led to the persecution of his own people (Iraqi Christians)?
This is not an easy case, there are many intersecting threads and it defies easy hot takes.
To find out whether it is a difficult topic, change out the ethnic group being discriminated against.
Lets say a Palestinian flees to Sweden, starts waving around Swastikas and burning Torahs. How do we feel now?
If a black person shoots someone they do not get to join the KKK either.
Just because this person was persecuted by a fringe extremist group, created from the US overthrowing a country, which the overwhelming majority of Muslims denounce, does not give him the right to start misrepresenting and discriminating an entire group.
“Get to”? “The right to”? What do you think I’m talking about? Oppression credits that can be used to buy a pass for shitty behaviour?
I’m asking for humanity and empathy, in the case of a guy who got fucking shot, by trying to make the case that this isn’t some cut and dry of some fascist getting their due, but a complicated and sad story.
The guy was actively inciting misplaced hate.
Inciting hate isn’t a crime. It’s free speech. He’s not persecuting anyone, just protesting against the religious who want to persecute others by banning people from blasphemy.
If I could I’d have ever parebt who takes a kid to a religious service arrested for child abuse. That’s persecution.
It is not free speech. He is protesting to persecute an entire religious group who had nothing to do with his persecution.
Anyone who thinks ISIS represents Muslims needs to stay off the 24/7 news cycle.
Calling people stupid isn’t persecuting them.
?
He was murdered. I’m assuming for a second that it’s because of his actions prior, and with that assumption he will literally have been religiously persecuted.
Turns out you’re full of it
His Twitter profile background was a flag of Israel. Was he persecuted by Palestinians?
He wasn’t a nazi.