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Denmark to Hold First Blasphemy Case for Almost 50 Years After Man Burns Quran
Newsweek ^ | 2/23/17 | Jack Moore

Posted on 02/23/2017 12:35:43 PM PST by markomalley

A man who set fire to the Quran has become the first Danish national charged with blasphemy in 46 years.

The 42-year-old man, who remains unidentified, filming himself burning the Muslim holy book in his garden in north Jutland in December 2015, and then posted the footage on an anti-Islam Facebook group called “Yes to freedom - no to Islam.”

He posted the video with the message: “Think of your neighbor: it stinks when it burns,” according to prosecutors, The Copenhagen Post reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: denmark; dhimmitude; koran; rop

1 posted on 02/23/2017 12:35:43 PM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

I did not know they were a theocracy.


2 posted on 02/23/2017 12:38:36 PM PST by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: markomalley

The ‘progressives’ are regressing Europe to the Middle Ages.

They have no right to free expression.
Going to jail for burning a book? you have to be kidding.

Going to jail for ‘Blasphemy’??? that’s there along with the Inquisition.


3 posted on 02/23/2017 12:40:02 PM PST by Toughluck_freeper
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To: Toughluck_freeper

Last burning at the stake for blasphemy was some poor guy who mocked the Bible for one reason or other in Spain, 1810 or there ‘bouts.


4 posted on 02/23/2017 12:42:17 PM PST by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: markomalley

He should have used the Koran for toilet paper instead. Less global warming.


5 posted on 02/23/2017 12:45:47 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: markomalley

Talk about insane double standards.
Fury as watchdog says it’s OK to send gay people death threats – but only if you’re Muslim
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/739275/Dutch-watchdog-OK-send-gay-people-death-threats-Muslim


6 posted on 02/23/2017 12:46:47 PM PST by tbw2
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To: markomalley
Think of your neighbor!

It stinks when it is allowed to fester!

7 posted on 02/23/2017 12:57:20 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
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To: markomalley

Picture of burning KORAN please!!!


8 posted on 02/23/2017 12:58:08 PM PST by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: markomalley

Picture of burning KORAN please!!!


9 posted on 02/23/2017 12:58:20 PM PST by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: markomalley

Old Christian Laws the left used to whine and still does WHINE about....

Now being used by the same leftists to DEFEND ISLAM.....

F****ING INSANE!!!!


10 posted on 02/23/2017 1:01:40 PM PST by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: markomalley

For a defense, he might claim he was saving it from being a$$-wipe.


11 posted on 02/23/2017 1:22:44 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: Scrambler Bob

Or, it was infested with the fleas of a thousand camels.


12 posted on 02/23/2017 2:21:59 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: markomalley

If it is his private property he should be able to turn it into CO2 if he wants to.


13 posted on 02/23/2017 3:16:37 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (GAY MARRIAGE- Like declaring a dog's tail to be a leg giving a dog 5 legs. But it is still a tail!)
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To: markomalley

Bible yes Koran no


14 posted on 02/23/2017 3:48:17 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: markomalley

No good deed goes unpunished.


15 posted on 02/23/2017 3:50:37 PM PST by sport
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