This is ridiculous. And remember there was also a movement recently in Germany to ban the Bible. Obviously those of you who support this foolishness don't believe in freedom of speech or religion.
You are welcome to your opinion...however ridiculous it appears to some.
The issue here isn't actually outlawing the koran, but dragging it into a court of law so it can be exposed. How does that square with the efforts of rioting muslims to kill freedom of speech as it pertains to the mohammed cartoons?
"Obviously those of you who support this foolishness don't believe in freedom of speech or religion."
Islam is an oppressor of free speech and intolerate of other religions. To not oppose Islam is political and religious suicide. Islam is not compatible with democracy. Islam is not compatible with any sort of political or religious exercise beyond what only islam allows.
I oppose islam because I believe in freedom of speech and freedom of religion and islam does not. There's enough evidence to prove my point that would fill to capacity the smithsonian.
Why do you tolerate a religion that would not tolerate yours unless you are one?
"This is ridiculous. And remember there was also a movement recently in Germany to ban the Bible. Obviously those of you who support this foolishness don't believe in freedom of speech or religion."
Islam is not a religion. It's a political system that exploits religion to control people.
I think you're right. We don't want to be banning books (in the sense of forcibly preventing their publication.) We can limit them in the sense of not subsidizing them, e.g. not using public funds to purchase them for schools, libraries, people in jails and prisons, etc.
Certainly there are "powers that be" who would like to ban the Bible as well as the Quran, and who would use the German proposal as an obvious and almost irresistable pretext.
In fact, in Canada teachers have been fired from their jobs, and people have been investigated and punished for "human rights violations," merely for quoting from the Bible--- in speech or in print --- on the subject of homosexuality.
Book-banning can't work in a society that has hundreds of millions of books in print, and well-nigh universal Internet. The Qu'ran doesn't need to be banned. It needs to be openly refuted, repudiated, and de-legitimized.