Full storyA teenager has been arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred after allegedly burning an English language version of the Koran.
The 15-year-old, who lives in the West Midlands, allegedly posted the video, filmed two weeks ago on her school premises, on Facebook.
The video was reported to the school and subsequently removed, police said.
Same thing about representing Muhammed. The point of not representing him is never to come to idolize him, the way we did with Jesus. But non-Muslims have no chance of ever idolizing him, so the whole argument is baseless to prevent the depiction of Muhammed.GrahamKennedy wrote:Burning books is a deeply uncivilised thing to do, IMO.This girl is a bloody idiot, and deserves condemnation glaore.
But you either have freedom of expression or you do not. So far as has been reported this girl did not incite anybody to violence or encourage them to break to law; she simply burned a book. Muslims may regard it as holy, and never to be disrespected; these are excellent reasons for muslims not to go around burning then. But this girl was not a muslim, and she's not bound by what offends them.
Incitement to violence which is generally the punishible offense generally is taken to mean that the person doing something was pretty explicit in bascially requesting that someone do harm to others. Doing something that is intentionally offense, however immoral and obnoxious it might be, generally does not meet that standard.stitch626 wrote:I think the "incite to hatred" thing comes from the fact that she posted a video of it on Facebook. Depending on who she tagged in the video (ie, her Muslim friends), it could be more than just freedom of expression.
But if that allows them to go strongly against the muslim nuts, I can't say it's entirely a bad thing...Deepcrush wrote:If this were a group of Muslims burning Bibles, no one would even bother with it. Its my thought that they may be looking to crack down on Racial and Religious tensions but they have to start with someone White and Christian before they can go after anyone else. Otherwise you're a racist.
