Man Burning Quran Outside Turkish Consulate In London Attacked By Knife

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1. If you’re gonna burn books, then I’m cool with it being the religious ones. If you’re gonna do it as a performance piece though, at least come up with a decent show; shouldn’t be hard to find a sequined dress and blast some Disco Inferno while doing it.

2. Well that’s fucked, but expected. Whether it was a dumb stunt or not doesn’t matter. Hope it’s obvious who’s at fault here.

   I guess it’s some kind of “well if I don’t get violent, God will punish me too, also other people in my religion will doubt that my faith is strong if I don’t react.”

   If some news report on a blasphemous act pops up, you gotta throw in a “may god curse you” and make sure everybody else heard, so they don’t think you’re a filthy atheist. My go-to was “ah well, why should I be angry, God will take care of it as we both know, right my fellow worshipper?” A lot of this stuff is people peer pressuring each other into believing harder. The threat of exclusion from the group (or worse, but that alone can do it) is scary.

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