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The Danish parliament has voted to ban the burning of religious scriptures after a series of Qur’an desecrations in the country and neighbouring Sweden.
After months of intensive debate, a bill making it illegal to burn, soil, trample on or cut recognised religious scriptures including the Qur’an, the Bible or the Torah was passed with 94 votes in favour and 77 against.
Over the summer copies of the Qur’an were burned or otherwise damaged during a series of protests in Denmark and Sweden, prompting international uproar.
And that’s nothing to be proud of,” Steffen Larsen, legal representative for the Liberal Alliance, told the Danish broadcaster DR.
“History will judge us harshly for this, and with good reason,” said Inger Støjberg, the leader of Denmark Democrats, a rightwing populist party that was against the bill.
Sweden has also said it is looking into ways to prevent desecrations of the Qur’an and other religious books, though it has ruled out changing its far-ranging freedom of expression laws.
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The Danish parliament has voted to ban the burning of religious scriptures after a series of Qur’an desecrations in the country and neighbouring Sweden.
After months of intensive debate, a bill making it illegal to burn, soil, trample on or cut recognised religious scriptures including the Qur’an, the Bible or the Torah was passed with 94 votes in favour and 77 against.
Over the summer copies of the Qur’an were burned or otherwise damaged during a series of protests in Denmark and Sweden, prompting international uproar.
And that’s nothing to be proud of,” Steffen Larsen, legal representative for the Liberal Alliance, told the Danish broadcaster DR.
“History will judge us harshly for this, and with good reason,” said Inger Støjberg, the leader of Denmark Democrats, a rightwing populist party that was against the bill.
Sweden has also said it is looking into ways to prevent desecrations of the Qur’an and other religious books, though it has ruled out changing its far-ranging freedom of expression laws.
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