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.

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    2 days ago

    I’m not being coy. You can do whatever you like, and no, you don’t “deserve death” for that. But the idea that you are being persecuted is in your imagination. Do I deserve death if I piss on the motorcycle of a Hells Angel? Am I persecuted if I am beaten for it? There was zero reason (other than provocation) for burning those Korans. He intended to provoke, and he succeeded. Congratulations.

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      there was zero reason for burning those Korans

      You are either spectacularly naive, or just plain lying your ass off, or you’re just trolling and honestly I’m not sure which it is.

      He burned those Korans because one must be able to do that without being murdered. I am all against book burning but when a single book is burned to prove a point, I’m all for it.

      In this case, the point was made by Muslims that they’re insane terrorist skydaddy believers who will murder anyone they disagree with. Fuck. That. Shit.

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        You will never live in a world where there are not consequences for your actions, whether those consequences are right or wrong. People get offended, sometimes violently so, over all kinds of things. What point did this guy prove? “Muslims” didn’t kill him, one Muslim did.

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          So you are okay with these consequences?

          Because id you’re not, why do you keep defending murder “because he had it coming”?

          The guy proved the point that Muslims, as a group, are violent whenever you touch their religion. If you say this isn’t true then by all means, go to Afghanistan and shout “fuck Allah!”

          All religions are backwards, but at the very least Christianity mostly has grown up, be it by force as we no longer tolerate it’s once violent behavior. At least today I CAN say “fuck jesus”. I won’t, and basically nobody does, because there is no need. This guy burned the Koran BECAUSE of how violent Muslims are. It’s to make a point and if you don’t see that point you’re blind. Maybe you should read up on Salman Rushdie? Maybe Theo van Gogh?

          Why do you tolerate and defend violence form Muslims? I take it you are Muslim?

          And if you start with “you’re generalizing, you’re discriminating” then please, read up about their behaviour over the past 5 decades. Muslims as a group are know to currently be the most violent of all religions. All religions have weird wardrobe requirements but leave it up to the Muslims to require women to completely hide themselves from the world because they only exist to lead you to sin! And then they compare it to candy in a wrapper or some shit. Fuck. That. Shit.

          The world would be off a LOT better without religions, but of all religions, Islam is the worst.

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            It sounds like you are an edgy teenage neckbeard, or a very thinly disguised racist. Go to a country bar in Mississippi and scream “fuck Donald Trump” or go to the Thai royal palace and scream “fuck the king”. Go to Compton in Los Angeles and scream racial slurs. I mean, you have to go do that to prove you are free, right? For most normal people, there is zero compulsion to do any of those things. At what point would you stop feeling “persecuted” about any of those things? If there is only one individual in the world, whom you could offend to the point of violence, is that still too much? You must feel very persecuted indeed.